I don't understand it really. What is this discomfort we have when it comes to women working late at night? Does it always have to be associated with prostitution? Single mothers trying to make ends meet?
What's really wrong with being a single mother anyway? (Let's not debate prostitution.)
Banning Night Shifts for Women
Forget unconstitutionality, discrimination, job loss.
This is simply an example of putting a band aid (a used, dirty one) on a bruise that is as large as it is deep--a band aid on a cancer.
And I'm not being dramatic.
Let's be honest. The problem is with perverts; people who think that it’s okay for women to compromise on simple choices; people who think it’s not their fault they can’t control themselves; those who think that lust only exists because women are around.
“If only women covered themselves up and stayed at home, this would never happen…”
This reminds of the time I was forced into attending a Christian retreat and this utterly ridiculous woman (I insult her because she insulted me.) told us that if girls dressed provocatively (and this included sleeveless clothes, tightish jeans, coloured hair), it invited trouble. More importantly:
"If you make a man lust after you, however inadvertently, it is your sin as well."
What happened to resisting temptation? I remember being a kid and being told at Sunday school that temptation is everywhere and that part of being Christian is fighting it.
I mean, anyone can live without sin if the world is temptation-less. O, lookit me! I’m not a rapist. But I’ve never met a woman/young boy to rape before! I live in a cave!
<tires of Christian talk>
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You are not solving problems by making these laws. You are merely saying you don’t care, that you’d rather not work. You refuse to acknowledge the greater problematic of social power. We can’t make people stop demeaning you, but we’re really, in our hearts, against this sort of disgusting behaviour–-is that what you’re saying?
Or alternatively, do you think it’s really our problem and do you think you’re being kind to us by saving us the trouble of getting insulted, molested, raped?
The law is not kind to women. It merely pretends to be.
