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slaveofdarkhold -> RE: Discrimination in Public Places.... (5/2/2006 12:57:09 AM)
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Sorry but I'm gonna have to join in here and say the people who got thrown out were out of place. What they were basically doing was playing a sex game- sure they might not have being having sexual contact but they were practicing a form of exhibitionism, showing off their dominance and submission to anyone who happened to pass them by. Now I'm not against them expressing it, but there's a time and a place. There are BDSM clubs if they need to do this, or hell even regular nightclubs where its generally more acceptable to have a higher level of public sexuality. Doing it in a mall is using other people to get themselves off. 'Ooooh look at all those other people who can see us'- the other people become a prop or accessory in their sex game.
I might get some objections to that, about it being a lifestyle not a game, and people needing to express that side of them. But I find it hard to believe it would be discrimination by expecting them to tone it down in a mall. I'd feel the same (and frequently do) about people who stick their tongues down each other's throats in public. Its part of the standards of our society, that we expect people to keep their sexual acts to themselves. If they need to express their Dominance/submission at all times, they could do so subtly- have the sub walk a pace behind,speak when spoken to, not start eating until the dominant has- no one else is affected or even aware but they're not being denied expression of themselves.
At the end of the day, I don't see how expecting them to keep it private is discrimination. They aren't being judged on their gender or skin colour or age, or anything that they can't 'put away' for an hour while they walk round the mall. It's something they chose to do and are not forced into. We're not denying their right to dress and act like this where its approproate. We even have clubs and dungeons where its positively encouraged. We expect children not to run around restaurants making lots of noise. We expect smokers to step outside or into a smoking area in public places. This isn't discrimination. Its acting appropriately for the environment.
Was asking them to leave extreme? Maybe, maybe not. We don't know if they had been asked before to remove them, and we don't know what else they may have been doing during their trip round the mall. Even if they weren't warned or doing anything beyond leading each other around on leashes, I think the company has every right to ask people to leave because of antisocial behaviour.
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