Monday, September 29, 2008

The very definition of frivolous

I'm not a big fan of modern feminism (or identity politics in general) but even I think this guy's idea was stupid and pointless, and it looks like a judge agreed:
It's closing time for a lawsuit alleging ladies' nights at nightclubs discriminate against men. Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum tossed the lawsuit out of federal court in Manhattan on Monday. She said nightclubs can price their products as they wish because they're not acting as representatives of the state.

The lawsuit was brought by attorney Roy Den Hollander, who has crusaded against feminism and recently sued a university over its women's studies program.

Hollander said ladies' nights at Manhattan nightclubs discriminate against men by offering women free or discounted admission and drinks. He tried to link the state to the discounts because it licenses the sale of alcohol at nightclubs.

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Nightclub attorneys said Hollander's lawsuit was frivolous. It sought to represent men over the age of 21 who entered Lotus, the China Club and several other New York nightclubs on a ladies' night since June 21, 2004.

The nightclubs said the prices charged to men aren't so burdensome that they amount to denying them entry and male customers actually might benefit from ladies' nights because so many women attend.
See, dumbass, that's exactly why clubs host a ladies' night. So that women will show up, drink a lot of cheap booze, and, hopefully, have a lapse in judgment and go home with some dude. Maybe you're a big fan of the sausage fests, but the rest of us occasionally enjoy meeting drunk chicks.

Or so I'm told.

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