especially on a first date, actually any date,
a restaurant, the La Rosa Nautica which overlooks the ocean in the Peruvian
capital, Lima, photograph above Printerest, gave gentlemen a blue menu that featured both the dishes available and
their prices, ladies got a gold version that mentioned no prices at all, the
owner of the high-end restaurant defended the practice by calling it a way for
women to enjoy a romantic night out without having to worry about costs, which I thought admirable, in the same way if I buy a Christmas or birthday present for Diana my wife, or you do for you other female important other halves, you take the price off of it, but it was not to be, the screaming equal rights lefties soon came out of the woodwork, and fined the restaurant 210,000 sol ($62,000) fine for offering women a different
menu when they dined with men, in their defense, La Rosa Nautica owners said that price-free
menus “extoll the position of women, considering it a pleasure for them to
enjoy a romantic evening with their partner, without taking into account the
cost of the services,” but the National Institute for the Defense of Free
Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property disagreed. In a 3-2
ruling last week it declared that all women should have access to the same
menus as men, “These small things may seem harmless,” Liliana Cerrón, an
official with the institute, said. “But at the end of the day they are the basis of a
chauvinistic construct reinforcing differences between men and women.” so remember when you give your female other half or mother any gift without the price tag, you are so guilty of discriminating against women, go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect £200! (and I bet we have all done it!).
2 comments:
I don't like this idea because it assumes without reason that a woman shouldn't see the prices. What if the woman is the one who is paying for dinner? What if the man and woman are each paying for their own meals? Doing such a thing makes a lot of unfair assumptions based strictly on gender that actually have nothing to do with gender. That's simply not allowed under the law.
If the restaurant had put a little thought into it, I'm sure it could have come up with a way for the person paying for the meal to request an un-priced menu for the other person at the table, or something else that would not have required the restaurant to engage in prejudicial treatment based strictly on gender. The fine was a little excessive though.
Dear Jil, fair comments I just took the read at face value and did not give the other side of the coin a thought, i.e. the woman paying, or going Dutch, yes the restaurant, I am guessing without malice broke the law, and I agree wholeheartedly the fine was excessive, so I am guessing they will not try that again! best regards, Stan and Diana.
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