I don't like it personally, but I fail to see what's controversial. It's a private business with rules. It's not very different from places requiring you to wear a tie. I can imagine some other establishment requiring you to bring a pet. A singles bar can require the opposite and exclude groups from entering. Part of the experience is socializing and I can see why some bars might want to have rules that cater to a specific audience.
If their rule was "no single men after 21:00" I could see that as a sex discrimination thing. But this is a perfectly reasonable rule, I don't like it or agree with it, but it's also entirely the business owner's right.
I don't think that's weird, lots of places stop serving alcohol entirely after a certain time, so the time factor makes sense. Lots of people bar-hop, by that time they're already drunk.
>I don't like it personally, but I fail to see what's controversial. It's a private business with rules.
It's controversial for people who believe that society is about more than merely doing what's allowed, and who think that this is a dick move, regardless if the business can get away with it legally or not.
I, for one, hope his fucking bar loses business and is shut down.
Wild how much people seem to care about how a random guy probably thousands of miles away runs his business. Even if you lived in Manchester I don't see why this would be such a big deal. Annoying, sure. But is it really so bad to have to walk across the street to the next bar?
Your behavior feels wildly more intolerable than theirs. They want to provide a measure of safety to the place. You don’t have to go. There are plenty of places that will take a lonely person like you. But some people will prefer to frequent an establishment specifically for this, so going that they go out of business just because you don’t like it is an awful position to hold.
If their rule was "no single men after 21:00" I could see that as a sex discrimination thing. But this is a perfectly reasonable rule, I don't like it or agree with it, but it's also entirely the business owner's right.