PRIVILEGEWe want equality…but wait, not like that! Outrage as someone points out that discount just for women on the basis of their sex is a breach of the equality act. Complainer viewed as spoilsport.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

A village pub owner has been forced to cancel his 12-year run of discounted Ladies' Nights — after one disgruntled man said it was 'discrimination'.

Owner Simon Skinner has called time on the popular 50 per cent food discounts that female customers were eligible for on Monday nights at his pub The Star Inn in Lingfield, Surrey.

The beloved tradition, that started in 2010, will be receiving its last orders at the end of October because one out-of-town punter claimed that it was 'discrimination'.

Under the Equality Act 2010, cases of sex discrimination, which include providing different goods and services to men and women because of their sex, can be pursued in the civil courts when a claim is brought forward.

The country pub said on its Facebook page that the night, popular with both men and women, was introduced as a way to 'right the balance' when it came to gender inequality.

Regulars expressed their shock and outrage, branding the complaint 'ridiculous' and that the 'world had gone mad'.

”Women have that need to communicate, much more than men do.

'I just think it gives women something that is special for them — and it's a great opportunity to catch up with friends.

'Ladies' Night works really well — the conversation flows.

'My wife had a friend over the other day to look at something and they ended up talking for two hours.

Internalised misandry/sneaky fuckery is a terrible thing.

The interesting thing is that an absolutely open and shut case of sex discrimination was viewed very differently by everyone just because men were the victims in a way that would get you absolutely pilloried, quite rightly, were it the other way round.

[–]jet199 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is why it got cancelling.

Local men liked the offer because it got women coming into the pub so they could meet them and talk to them.

People not actually seeing the real world effect of the offer go by ideology alone and think men must be the victims.

Now that town will be full of incels.

Well done MRAs.

[–]wylanderuk 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh fuck off, really all the landlord had to do was make another night a "lads night" and he would have been in the clear.

[–]IMissPorn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, but that would probably be a money loser. Lads are the majority, presumably, so it would just be a day when most customers pay less and few if any additional customers come.