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> There are many reasons to want younger workers, and there are many reasons you shouldn't want younger workers. I don't find it necessary for the government to step in to help one of the highest paid fields in america.

Would you feel similarly if you replaced "younger" with "gay" or "female"?

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I've never really understood this. Some restaurants, or clothing stores, have wait staff that are all women. In a massage place you can pick the gender of your masseuse - so surely a massage place that was already well staffed with one gender would be justified in gender discrimination. If I'm hiring a baby sitter for my daughter, I'm not going to hire a male person, and I'm sure there are many similar examples. I get that many times there is no justification for hiring preferences based on gender, but surely sometimes there is.

The article talks about Verizon, Amazon, Goldman, Target, and Facebook, none of which are known for massage therapy or babysitting.

I intended my comment to be on the topic of the thread I replied to, and not the subject of the article. I meant that I don't really understand when you can and can't discriminate based on things.

Yes. I have no desires in protecting bigots by forcing them to camouflage with all the rest, and to shield them from the expensive decisions they were going to make.

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