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> A company is not there to solve stereotypes.

That ties into the question if companies should have a responsibility to society or just be a vehicle to make money. Opinions differ on this.

(Legality is another topic, but for the sake of this thread I propose to assume that this behavior is legal)

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"for the sake of this thread I propose to assume that this behavior is legal" - it's not, in USA it's illegal to discriminate genders and some other groups in certain types of advertising (jobs and IIRC housing).

For the sake of the thread, you could read the article or have some awareness of the topic instead of assuming.

> “The ads themselves are illegal,” Galen Sherwin, an ACLU lawyer, said. “It’s been established for five decades.”

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