Restaurant Required to Hire Women Actors/Servers -Reply -Reply

[Emily Hartigan]

That was because it was lewdness for a woman to be so public in
display of herself -- the feminine could not be subject to the harsh light of
public glare, nor was she strong enough.  Only men could "appear" in
public - at a time of course when the sovereign was a woman.  Go
figure.

>>> "Scarberry, Mark" <Mark.Scarberry at PEPPERDINE.EDU> 04/03/00
12:01pm >>>
With apologies to Victor/Victoria, I believe that in Shakespeare's day
these
situations involved a man pretending to be a woman, pretending to be a
man.
(That is, men or boys played the female roles, including female roles that
involved posing as a man.)

Mark S. Scarberry
Pepperdine University School of Law
mailto:mark.scarberry at pepperdine.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur D. Wolf [mailto:awolf at LLAMA.LNET.WNEC.EDU]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 5:00 PM
To: CONLAWPROF at listserv.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: Restaurant Required to Hire Women Actors/Servers -Reply


Dear Folks,

        Didn't a woman play a man in "Merchant of Venice" and "As You
Like
It"?
Or did I read the Classic Comic version of both plays?

        Seriously, though, Title VII allows "sex" to be a "bona fide
occupational
qualification."  I assume the Court rejected that defense on the ground
that modern make-up artists can transform any person into any
character.


                                                        Art Wolf