Maternity Store Offers Discount Only To Lesbian Customers

newyork.cbslocal.com ^

[napscoordinator]

Hopefully the non lesbians can just shop somewhere else. The company I suppose can do this as many places give discounts for various reasons. The best way to fight this is just not shop there.

[x]

Googled "lesbian income." First thing up freakonomics:

Joe Clark, who has previously written about women’s hockey, took a look at the myths surrounding gay and lesbian income statistics. Interestingly, Clark found that “[g]ay males earn less than straight males, often much less. Meanwhile, lesbians earn more than straight females.” Clark attributes the difference to professional choices, not discrimination: “Gay males have more education than straight males, but they do not choose male-dominated professions as often as straight males do. In fact, they choose female-dominated and/or service professions much more often.” Gay males also work fewer hours than straight males. Lesbian women, by contrast, work more hours than straight females and are “overrepresented in male-dominated professions that pay better than female-dominated professions.”

Counterintuitive at first, but makes sense.

[max americana]

what’s Boing Boing?

[GeronL]

Is that even legal??

[trumandogz]

Why would it not be legal?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Store website.

Paperno doesn't require shoppers to prove their eligibility, since she believes Park Slopers are too honest to lie (or exploit that one drunken incident in college) in order to get a deal on nursing supplies. She says she gets about one taker a day, as well as the expected number of complaints. “The lesbians love it and the gay males get upset,” she tells Brokelyn. “But their disposable income is so much higher than women’s. Men just make more than women.”
Link.

[trumandogz]

Why would it not be legal?

[trumandogz]

Boing Boing is the name of the maternity shop located 1750 miles away from my house that I will now and forever be boycotting!

I hope you can make the same commitment.

[trumandogz]

“I think a bunch of straight pregnant ladies should shop there and just become lesbians for the short time they’re in the store.”

I’m sure the owners of Boing Boing would be delighted to have a bunch of straight pregnant ladies shopping at their store.

[GeronL]

Let’s give it a shot....

Discount for _______ Only

Christians

Blacks

Whites

Straight People

......

Would it still be okay??

[Tanniker Smith]

That's Park Slope for ya ever since the 80s when yuppies and DINKs came in and ruined the neighborhood. I grew up there and by the time I was out of school, I couldn't afford to live there.

Seventh Ave in Park Slope has their own Halloween Parade, too, which they started because they were too good to be bothered to go all the way over to Greenwich Village for that one.

[ken in texas]

Let's call it "Cash Register Dykes."

Works for me... kind of like some women in college: "LUGs" (Lesbian Until Graduation)

How about: "WISIL": (When I Shop I'm Lesbian).

And you can be as politically incorrect as you want. Take care over there.

[CodeToad]

” they’re not making as much money as a married couple”

Faggots are stupid and mentally retarded. Married people have the marriage penalty in taxes. How simply because because they are sodomites do they make less when every liberal reporter tries to make faggots out to be wealthier than avergae?

[trumandogz]

Discount for _______ Only

Christians

Blacks

Whites

None of those would be legal.

However, discounts for ____________ only

those wearing red shirts

those who drive SUV’s

those who sing a song

those who are pregnant

those who are lesbian

All the above are legal as each of those conditions is by choice.

[kingu]

Would it still be okay??

Why shouldn't it be ok to put up any sign or make any discount or policy you want in your private establishment? It is none of the government's business, and is only between you and your customer.

Same thing should apply to property owners who rent, or hotel owners, but unacceptably, the government has stepped in and placed restrictions on what you can outwardly do, such as forbidding the denial of a client simply because of their race or religious affiliation. The same applies for hiring of employees as well, an unwarranted restriction on freedom, in my opinion.

Things you can't base a discount on, for example, is for voting in a federal election - those I Voted deals that keep cropping up during primary or general election times are illegal under federal law as vote buying.

Even then, I think it's still an intrusion into a private transaction which the federal government has no business regulating.

[airedale]

It looks like discrimination based upon sexual orientation which is a violation of New Yorks SONDA laws (Sexual Non-Discrimination Act) which was signed into law in 2002. Someone in New York probably should report them to the New York Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights or other state organizations that are responsible for enforcing SONDA. Of course a straight person could also visit the site and try to get the discount. If it isn’t given they could sue the store under SONDA and federal discrimination laws. Bet there is a nice class action suit there too.

[GeronL]

I wasn’t asking “should” it be okay.

Do you think if this business had chosen a different group the story might be a bit different?

[ExCTCitizen]

I wonder if I could TAX LESBIANS in my business??

[RINOs suck]

“Women make 77 cents on the dollar still.

Only the ones that don't take time off from work to raise children.

Regardless, the single, heterosexual women allegedly make less don't deserve a discount?

[JimC214]

I remember back in the day when Manhattanites wouldn't be caught dead in the “sticks”. I.E. Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx outside of the Stadium area. And under no circumstances would they be caught dead on Staten Island. Now they are taking over Long Island City and Bed Sty and Red Hook.