Damages and punishment are actually not specified in the Austin ordinance. It's not even necessarily the case that any litigation would be tied to specific people claiming they were discriminated against. There is a section in the ordinance effectively giving Austin's Equal Employment/Fair Housing Office the power…

While I'm not a lawyer, I do work in a field closely related to the protection and promotion of civil rights, I disagree with an awful lot of this. Public accommodations laws only came about after people fought awfully hard for them, and many of the people doing the fighting were from the sorts of groups that have…

I highly doubt that businesses are allowed to break public accommodations laws as long as they don't do "gender verification." The fact that the business is telling members of one gender that they're not welcome is plenty.

It doesn't only limit, it also segregates and makes a distinction based on race, both of which are also in the ordinance. Whether it excludes or not is (somewhat) debatable given other screenings. It may run afoul of "full and equal" enjoyment, as well. And yep: it definitely violates the advertising provision: no…

Well, the "putz" is absolutely correct about the law, so there's that…

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Whether he's being a dick or not probably depends on his motivations. His motivations seem to stem from quite reasonable concerns about equality and laws written to protect equality. I certainly don't think that makes him a dick.

The professor knows a lot more about the relevant law than ADemonsTwistRusts, that's for sure. Maybe you should try reading the law before suggesting that the professor doesn't understand it.

In your opinion, perhaps, but not according to the law. Austin's ordinance is pretty clear:

Maybe he has the perspective that people fought hard for public accommodations laws, and that those laws were quite intentionally written to protect people of ALL genders, races, religions, etc.

While there may be people that are "offended by it," there are other people who that think public accommodations laws are pretty important. It's concerning when a business is so cavalier about violating those laws.

The first thing I thought when leaving the theater after Apes was "Well that certainly didn't suck like Godzilla did!" :)

The only reason Godzilla belongs on any "best of" list is if it wins in "the best example of critics inexplicably praising a really stupid movie" category. I mean, c'mon… I'm not saying that I didn't find it mildly entertaining, but it was/is a ridiculous movie for so many reasons, and had no outstanding qualities at…

Keep in mind that Farrar and Tweedy were roughly 23 years old when the album came out, and about 20 when the earliest of the new material on this latest release was recorded. The material is even more impressive given those facts, I think. They kept getting better — in a hurry — too.