Why you should get so emotional over some lawyer’s protest

After reading the chapter, please write a one page reflection essay which answer the question assigned,… One objective of this assignment is to practice intellectual honesty which among other things requires the ability to differentiate: 1. what you know from what you don’t know; and 2. what you think from how you feel

The assign question is: ( page 70, question 11)

11. Read the following dialogue carefully. Then determine which opinion on the issue is more reasonable. Be sure to base your decision on evidence rather than mere preference.

Background note: A Rochester, New York, lawyer issued a court challenge to the prac- tice of charging women half price for drinks during “ladies’ nights” at bars. He argued that the practice is a form of sex discrimination against men.20

Henrietta: That lawyer must be making a joke against feminism. He can’t be serious.

Burt: Why not? It’s clearly a case of discrimination.

Henrietta: Look, we both know why ladies’ nights are scheduled in bars: as a gimmick to attract customers. The women flock to the bars to get cheap drinks, and the men flock there because the women are there. It’s no different from other gimmicks, such as mud-wrestling contests and “two for the price of one” cocktail hours.

Burt: Sorry. It’s very different from two-for-one cocktail hours, where a per- son of either sex can buy a cocktail at the same price. Ladies’ nights set a dou- ble standard based on sex and that’s sex discrimination, pure and simple. Henrietta: So now you’re a great foe of discrimination. How come you’re not complaining that men haven’t got an equal opportunity to participate half naked in mud-wrestling contests? And why aren’t you protesting the fact that women are paid less for doing the same jobs men do? You’re

a phony, Burt, and you make me sick.

Burt: Name-calling is not a sign of a strong intellect. And why you should get so emotional over some lawyer’s protest, I can’t imagine. I guess it goes to show that women are more emotional than men.