To complain about single people being excluded from social groups of married people is much like complaining about the exclusion of men from women-only spaces.
In fact, it's the exact same argument.
It's precisely the opposite of the argument you employed in your previous comments, where you were insisting that women-only spaces and groups of married people excluded men and singles (respectively) on quite different bases. You were right the first time, in my opinion; my only quibble was whether the exclusion of singles from socializing with their married friends was accidental, in the philosophical sense. If your mother's invitations dried up despite her friends not taking your father's side (and thus one assumes continuing to feel friendship towards her), it seems too simple to describe subsequent dinner parties as having been convened on the basis of friendship rather than marital status. Clearly being a friend and being married were both seem as necessary conditions for an invitation.
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Date: 2015-06-29 07:48 pm (UTC)No doubt (I'd miss the cut by 8 inches), but a discriminatory filter doesn't have to be 100% effective to be discriminatory.
To complain about single people being excluded from social groups of married people is much like complaining about the exclusion of men from women-only spaces.
In fact, it's the exact same argument.
It's precisely the opposite of the argument you employed in your previous comments, where you were insisting that women-only spaces and groups of married people excluded men and singles (respectively) on quite different bases. You were right the first time, in my opinion; my only quibble was whether the exclusion of singles from socializing with their married friends was accidental, in the philosophical sense. If your mother's invitations dried up despite her friends not taking your father's side (and thus one assumes continuing to feel friendship towards her), it seems too simple to describe subsequent dinner parties as having been convened on the basis of friendship rather than marital status. Clearly being a friend and being married were both seem as necessary conditions for an invitation.