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Re: Yuck! Dirty Bathrooms at Seabright Brewery

Wow...

The last comment about being gender neutral was in order to be inclusive in the conversation about sexual harassment. Do to the fact that the description by "Sexual Harassment is Illegal" was over all very well laid out, I would have like to have seen it be completely inclusive. Since it is given that not all cases of sexual harasment are exclusively done on one gender by another gender. People of the same gender can sexually harass people of the same gender (Male on Male and female on female).

The second part which is independent of the first.

A private business on private land is displaying "Art" and this should be the context of the discussion.

The employees(workers) have a special relationship under the law that basically says that then need to be protected from abuse (physical/emotional). That is why we have min. wage, working hours, sexual harassment laws, etc. So if the worker feels harassed then we have a legal issue.

The person off the street has different relationship with the private business. You found something offensive in the private property that you were a guest on. Ok what happens now... well you make your complaint to the business, go else where. You then if you wish can make some noise get your friends not to go and tell people about your issue.

Santa cruz is a very creative place and many business display art everywhere (including bathrooms). So what we have here is to be accepting of each other's ideas of what "art" is. For example one can walk into a number of other business (coffee shops jump to my mind) and see paintings, photos, etc containing images that my offend some people and make them feel harassed. A naked body, upside down cross, use of animals as food, etc... we are all being free citizens, we should be able to give each other a respect of expression in for the sake of "art". In other words it is the private citizen (read here business owner) that can choose what they want as art on their own private property. Or would you rather see no art or some government(please note the hint of distrust) decide on what is ok and not.
 


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