Does Toronto bar prohibit men from dancing on tables and is that gender discrimination? Toronto TorontoBar
Staff relocate tables to make space for a disco-style dance floor, music roars, and customers begin dancing on a platformed space attached to the booths.
"When dancing on tables like everyone else, our male friends were forced off and told that only females are allowed on tables," Martini and her friend Helena Holmes wrote in an online review for the establishment. "Nobody wants to see me, a 230-240 pound guy, dancing on a table. I might break it. But there are no policies in that sense. I'm pretty sure this is a one-off situation rather than a cultural situation where it's a policy that was enforced and you would see constant security going back and forth."
"When they tell guys to get down, it's like they're keeping women up there to be sexualized and seen by the whole crowd," Martini tells blogTO. Organizations providing services like bars and clubs have an obligation to ensure their services are free from discrimination, including discrimination based on sex, as outlined in the Human Rights Code.According to Faraday, intention is not the primary concern when assessing discrimination. Instead, the focus should be on the discriminatory effect of certain rules or policies.
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