With California's harsh lock downs i doubt all that many people are out shopping there. One would hope law makers would have better things to be concerned about.
Not being able to separate mens and women's clothing from each other would make for a confusing shopping experience. I imagine if that proposal came into law tere would be fewer store shoppers and instead online cloths shop would see an uptick in buyers - Which maybe that is the purpose.
I was reading the other day how some of the race and gender mentions has been good cover for corporate shenanigans.
Race and gender rhetoric is the perfect cover for corporate misdeeds
https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/race-and-gender-rhetoric-is-the-perfect-cover-for-corporate-misdeeds/
excerpt:
Every ruling class sustains a myth to legitimate its rule. What distinguishes America’s corporate elite and its legitimating myth — wokeness and endless self-flagellation about “equity” — is a galling dishonesty married to rapacious greed.
For a stark illustration, consider the financial giant Citigroup.
In September, as protests and race riots gripped the nation, Citi
published a study claiming that racism has cost the United States $16 trillion. The bank’s then-vice chairman, Raymond McGuire, contributed a pained and pious introduction.
Citigroup also announced Jane Fraser
as its new CEO in September, making her the first female boss of a major Wall Street bank. Thus, as progressives applauded yet another corporate entry into the register of social justice, it went mostly unnoticed that federal regulators
fined the bank $400 million the following month.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a regulatory agency within the US Treasury, said this penalty is “based on the bank’s unsafe or unsound banking practices for its long-standing failure to establish effective risk-management and data-governance programs and internal controls.” Regulators were curiously vague about the specifics. Fraser, as the financial press delicately put it, was “saddled” with a cleanup job.
From 2015 to 2019, Fraser served as chief executive of Citi’s Latin-American region. During her tenure, the bank paid $10.5 million in penalties to the Securities and Exchange Commission. “The charges stem from $81 million of losses due to trader mismarking and unauthorized proprietary trading and $475 million of losses due to fraudulently-induced loans made by a Mexican subsidiary,” the SEC said in a statement on Aug. 16, 2018.
Those penalties came a month after Citigroup reached an agreement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to pay $335 million in restitution to credit-card customers. The bank failed to reevaluate and reduce the annual percentage rates after periodic account reviews, as required by law, for approximately 1.75 million customers.
It’s hard to avoid the impression that Citi’s race-and-gender agonies — the study on racism, the female CEO — were meant to cover misconduct for which the firm has been repeatedly fined.
Silicon Valley follows a similar template......
