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Originally posted by 33girl
I think it has more to do with being founded in NY (as they both were, NYC and Syracuse respectively) than the age of the group, truthfully.
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You're absolutely right (another example: AOPi, founded at Barnard in response to discriminatory clauses), even though I think that the age of the organization does have some small factor in it. It's easier to reform an organization that isn't mired in tradition, right? Some of the post-1900 organizations were founded specifically without discriminatory clauses. So, yes, age does make a difference.
I can't help but thinking that when some of you are saying, "I'd never feel comfortable with having a lesbian as my sister," that not that long ago, you could replace "lesbian" with "Negro," "Asian," "Catholic," or "Jewish," and no one would have said anything, perhaps using Scripture as justification for racial and religious segregation. Those forms of discrimination were accepted once upon a time--soon the sexual orientation barriers will seem as irrational as the racial and religious ones do today.