No-Boys-Allowed Co-Working Spaces" for Women

Ace has a post entitled, “Of Course: Hot New Trend is Offering No-Boys-Allowed “Co-Working Spaces” for Women.

Sexual segregation is cool, so long as the right sex is being excluded.

Before we get into this, I guess people need to know what a “co-working space” is, which I personally don’t. It seems to be some kind of social club you pay a yearly fee to belong to, which is… I don’t know. I don’t know how “working” figures in here. I guess it’s like Starbucks — it’s a place to hang out with your laptop open so you can pretend you’re “working on your screenplay and/or novel” as you gab and gossip.

As Drew pointed out on Twitter, men used to have private spaces and clubs they could belong to, which had “personality” and a “distinct point of view,” such as leather-padded doors and walls with a lot of antlers on them and no lactation rooms whatsoever. These clubs were also “not being everything to everyone,” but they were shuttered or forced to include women for being discriminatory.

But in our Princess Gets Whatever She Wants age of feminism, such obvious points are officially Thoughtcrimes.

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