To be honest, I’m a bit disappointed that I got turned away from Mighty tonight at the Revision3 party. Granted, I’m sure they have an alcohol license to protect, but their doorman was pretty clear that despite the fact that they were serving food it was a venue policy.
Now, I could only begin to understand wanting to filter out the 18 and under crowd, but from 18 to 21 (which is just a totally arbitrary age…) there’s a bit of a grey zone. When it comes down to it, I would guess that there’s probably a minority of immature and/or irresponsile young adults that are ruining the situation for everyone else. Perhaps we should be issuing maturity licenses rather than arbitrarily valuing a non-existant correlation between age and maturity, because it just doesn’t exist.
What I would recommend to venues is considering hiring door men and women with a level head that get to decide who goes in and who doesn’t, because frankly, most of the time it’s pretty obvious who’s going to be a problem.
This also brings up another topic that I hadn’t really been made aware of until recently. A couple of weeks ago, I went to a “Bloggers Mett-Up” in support of Jane Kim, who is running for school board this year in San Francisco. We got to talking about issues facing youth in the city, when she really made clear that there isn’t a whole lot for those under 21, and especially those under 18. She certainly planted the seed that got me thinking about off and on since then, and she’s totally right.