Originally posted by: Injury
You're missing the point. It doesn't matter what you see at other malls. We aren't talking about other malls, we're talking about one specific mall. The dress was deemed too inappropriate for this mall. The mall is private property and they can tell someone to leave if they damn well feel like it. I'm not defending a security guard, I'm not defending the mall, I'm not defending the girl. All I'm saying is that they had the RIGHT to tell her to leave. I'm stating facts, you're making assumptions. Who is embarrassing themselves?
Go listen to some more Rage Against the Machine in your mom's basement and cry about how you're oppressed because you hate security guards.
First, let me apologize for misunderstanding your previous post about what you do or do not feel is inappropriate.
Second, while I understand that people have a right to throw someone off private property, that doesn't mean that exercising that right is always the best thing to do. Yes, they have the freedom to do so and that freedom really shouldn't be taken away from them, but this girl has freedoms and rights too and she should be free to dress like that in a public mall.
What happened here to this woman is a single instance which if abused too much eventually turns into the creation of laws using words like "discrimination" throughout their definition. Personally, I don't want to see that kind of thing happen which is why I heavily disapprove of exercising one's freedom in such a way. These freedoms are privileges and if too many people start to abuse them then they get taken away and nobody wants that to happen. It is not like we haven't seen this sort of thing play out like that before.
It is a good thing that private property owners are permitted to toss out the riff raff. I think most would agree that there are many cases which merit such action. Let's not tempt enough people to try and take those freedoms away from us shall we? The juice just is not worth the squeeze in cases like what happened with this woman.