No Mo' Freebies, Ladies!
A small, but landmark, victory for Men everywhere. This was a great shot across the bow! Men are finally waking up, getting fed up, standing their ground and firing back!! I thought this day would never come but, I feel the male revolution coming now... Don't you??
If feminists REALLY want fairness - then that's what they'll get! Which is a double-edged sword of both rights AND responsibilities! No more cake-eating. If they want it all - they'll GET IT!
If feminists REALLY want fairness - then that's what they'll get! Which is a double-edged sword of both rights AND responsibilities! No more cake-eating. If they want it all - they'll GET IT!
Men win in gender discrimination suitKeep up the good fight, fellas! Rome didn't fall in a day!
March 25, 2008
California men have reason to rejoice. They've won a major battle against male discrimination. But the ladies in their lives may not be as happy.
In 2003, a San Diego man challenged Club Med's “Ladies Fly Free” travel promotion in a California class-action lawsuit. The ad offered women – but not their male companions – free or discounted travel to Club Med's Cancun resort or its Turks and Caicos resort southeast of the Bahamas.
The French resort chain, while not admitting guilt, has agreed to pay $400,000 in attorney and court fees. Plus it will pay $1,149 in cash and $1,200 in Club Med vouchers to more than 50 male claimants who had bought airline tickets during Club Med's five-week promotion.
The lawsuit was filed in Orange County Superior Court by San Diego attorney Erik Jenkins on behalf of Alfred Rava, a San Diego civil activist and lawyer. Both men had been involved in earlier 2003 lawsuits targeting seven San Diego nightclubs that offered women discounted prices on “Ladies Nights.” Owners opted to drop such promotions and quickly settled out of court for a total of $125,000.
“It sends a strong message to businesses in California,” Jenkins says of the latest settlement. He adds that gender discrimination has taken a back seat to discrimination based on race, national origin and sexual orientation. “It has taken society a long time to catch on that females should not be used as sexual bait to draw men into a business.”
Meanwhile, a Florida Club Med spokeswoman says there was no intentional wrongdoing. She says the promotions have stopped, and the chain now focuses more on family travel. Discount offers still are made, but they focus on couples by using ambiguous wording such as: “Half off for the better half” – referring to either sex.
Jenkins said gender-based discount offers seemed to disappear after the lawsuits were filed in 2003. However, he recently noticed two pricing promotions favoring ladies in a downtown San Diego restaurant and a wine bar. He doesn't intend to file another complaint, though. Jenkins says he's now practicing family law.
Diane Bell's column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Fax items to (619) 260-5009, call (619) 293-1518 or e-mail to diane.bell@uniontrib.com
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Marc H. Rudov:
Hardly a day goes by without the birth of yet another article, written by a disillusioned woman, bemoaning the dearth or death of chivalry. The crux of each screed is: “Why should we pay for dinners? We’re women, after all, entitled to special treatment! What happened to tradition?” The scribes of these whining editorials, ranging from editors of college newspapers to Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, don’t seem to grasp how much they diminish themselves—and all women—with attitudes rooted in double-standard nonsense: demand for equality in the workplace and privileges outside of it.
I recently appeared on MTV Live, originating in Toronto. The subject was manners in dating. MTV’s definition of manners? How men should treat women. No thought about how women should treat men. This is akin thematically to the articles about chivalry: what women unilaterally expect, demand, and are entitled to receive from men. Never any mentions of how women should reciprocate to men, other than showing up to enjoy themselves. Enough already. Grow up, girls.
these coddled, entitled women want the double standard of one foot in the real world—college degrees, big salaries, home ownership—and one in the garden of special privileges—presumed wining & dining, child custody, etc. Such a woman wants to achieve and to be taken care of. But, life doesn’t work that way.
What is this chivalry these entitled women so crave? I define chivalry as benevolent sexism, or BS, a one-way street of largesse from men to women. Men extend chivalry not out of respect but as a condescending means to an end, and that end occurs in the bedroom. Chivalry differs from civility, which is a two-way street of considerate, generous behavior. Civility is bereft of gender-based entitlement; chivalry is all about gender-based entitlement.
If women want to gain respect amongst men, they must leave the Garden of Eden permanently, with both feet in the real, tough world. They must stop demanding chivalry, act like peers, and treat men like peers. This critical behavioral change does not make women less feminine and men less masculine. It makes them peers—equal in intelligence, capability, and potential—with different sex organs and complementary styles. The next time a woman writes a plaintive article about the lack of chivalry, I recommend that the rest of you request that she stop her whining—which hurts all of you.
Men who are tired of double-standard chivalry demands can end them today: stop tolerating them. Women have higher sex drives than men; so, don’t use getting laid as an excuse. Once you defer to her nonsense, you create an irreversible, negative, lopsided, destructive dynamic that endures the life of your time together. If she insists on keeping one foot in the Garden of Eden, you can walk away.
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