> It's pretty difficult to make any real progress on issues of equal access if any targeted efforts to improve access for particular groups are going to be char

> It's pretty difficult to make any real progress on issues of equal access if any targeted efforts to improve access for particular groups are going to be characterised as "giving others the shaft". If "equal access" is the goal (which I agree it should be), why are we excluding a group based on immutable characteristics? You really see that as equal?