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Australia's Mona asked a court to reverse its ruling that allowed men inside a women's only space.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/oHT6U

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[-] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

You're right, but to play devil's advocate; that's extremely unintuitive and took me to my 20s to figure out

Well, the mean age here seems to be over 30, so I'd expect a tad more maturity.

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 3 weeks ago

"Maturity", defined as being willing to accept explicit sex discrimination, so long as said discrimination penalizes men (as men are an acceptable target for discrimination)?

If that's still the hill you wanna die on, please.

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