Posted on 07/28/2016 2:42:18 PM PDT by ErikJohnsky
The battle over Michigan State University’s women-only lounge began with a rival school’s male professor.
Mark Perry, who teaches economics at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus, had stumbled upon a news story about the 91-year-old room in MSU’s sprawling student union. “They’d written about what a great space this is for women,” Perry said. “They can go in and take a nap and not be worried about being bothered.”
He figured it couldn’t be legal. Banning men from a taxpayer-funded study area, Perry thought, could violate Title IX, a federal law meant to protect gender equality on college campuses. So he contacted the school. Nothing changed. He sent a complaint to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights in June, but the department would not accept it because Perry had not personally endured discrimination. Then a writer for conservative news site The Daily Caller highlighted his grievance in a July 12 story.
Perry, who blogs about financial issues for the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, followed up with a post of his own the next day: “Is it really legal for a public university to blatantly violate the civil rights of 50% of its student body?”
Two days later, MSU quietly shuttered the women-only lounge.
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Wrong response. The correct response is to open a cigar lounge for the men.
What is next; women’s dorms?
Precisely. I think in a healthy society, males and females have a space of their own aside from a bathroom.
>>Precisely. I think in a healthy society, males and females have a space of their own aside from a bathroom.
This isn’t a healthy society. Good for him! Making them play by their own rules is the only cure.
That's classic Alinksy. Right out of the playbook.
It is the cure for most of America's ills.
Men and women always had their private lounges and clubs.
As so often happens one thing gets shut down because of a complaint
Welcome to the abuse of Totle IX ladies
I’m filing a complaint with my states Department of Professional Regulation regarding foreign language testing... You see you can request the tests in Spanish but the computers are set up where you can toggle between Spanish and English for each question... This clearly gives Spanish speakers an unfair advantage as they can use both questions to infer the answer where the correct answer may be ambiguous in one language or another.
>>That’s classic Alinksy. Right out of the playbook.
Yes it is. Progressives are the establishment now. WE are the new radicals. We better learn the game or will be in the dustbin of history.
So a woman who identifies as a man would not be allowed in?
Oh, I see some money up in this humpybumpy
>>Men and women always had their private lounges and clubs.
Men don’t anymore. Women see to that.
“Cigars, cigarettes, Tiparillos”?
Me bad! I totally agree with you.
Except that, for several years now, even privately-funded men-only clubs have been forced to admit women. Turnabout is fair play — even if it’s a far less-than-ideal solution.
We don’t even have a bathroom anymore.
Yes. Finally someone that understands how to fight the commies.
Don’t complain about Target letting men in the ladies’ room. Demand that they rip out a couple of stalls and install urinals there for any guy who might be identifying female.
Shine a light on the hypocrites. Take the battle to them. Time to quit playing 4 corners defense.
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