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Rich irony!
1 posted on 09/09/2015 4:45:23 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
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Why am I picturing these guys?


2 posted on 09/09/2015 4:46:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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A very good discussion of this lawsuit is here.
3 posted on 09/09/2015 4:47:29 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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Good for the guys going after the liberal haters!


4 posted on 09/09/2015 4:49:05 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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Bwhahahaha


5 posted on 09/09/2015 4:51:50 PM PDT by bolobaby
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What if they identify as women?


7 posted on 09/09/2015 4:53:19 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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The headline is precious.


8 posted on 09/09/2015 4:53:35 PM PDT by skeeter
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““My overall impression of this group is that their purpose is to track and bait and relentlessly ask to be invited until they get a ‘no,’ so they can bring a suit,”


Of course——like the gays who want a wedding cake——keep at it until they get turned down

It’s becoming The American Way.

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9 posted on 09/09/2015 4:57:59 PM PDT by Mears
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Sorry, this is only goose sauce. It's not for ganders.
10 posted on 09/09/2015 5:04:36 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The 1st amendment is the voice and the 2nd is the teeth of freedom. Obama wants to knock out both.)
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then promptly initiated legal action, turning to a 1959 California law originally written to prevent discrimination against minorities and women.

Yeah, that whole "equal protection under law" thing can cause problems like this ...
11 posted on 09/09/2015 5:06:53 PM PDT by tanknetter
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“Sadly, most of the cases are abusing the law,”

Then next time craft a law saying that fair treatment is not applicable to white Christian men. The USSC will have a much easier time slapping it down that way.

The folks who cry disparate impact and racism because a housing complex doesn’t have enough black applicants who qualify are crying about a law being abused to get results they don’t like.

They can shove it.


13 posted on 09/09/2015 5:18:23 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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You have to love the logic of these women’s groups. They claim they should have an exemption as female centric groups because they do not cause any harm.

Try and get male centric businesses to claim the same exemption. Didn’t I just hear of a barber shop who wanted to cater to men only that got fined $750 for doing so?

What a mess this has become but this equality thing has come full circle and is now attacking the groups that were complaining about inequality. This is delicious to watch.


14 posted on 09/09/2015 5:22:37 PM PDT by GilGil
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The law does not just work for some people and not others.

If sex discrimination is wrong its wrong when anyone does it.


15 posted on 09/09/2015 5:22:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I don’t see how this is going to shut down women in tech like its some kind of inescapable force that will prevent smart women from meeting and networking.


16 posted on 09/09/2015 5:23:14 PM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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Guys commit the majority of violent crimes. Do we still not prosecute female murderers and attackers?


17 posted on 09/09/2015 5:24:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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As you sow so shall you reap.
19 posted on 09/09/2015 5:27:54 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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Loser pays makes a nuisance settlement more rich. Without fee shifting the men here had no real damages, so their case would never have been brought.


20 posted on 09/09/2015 5:29:48 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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These men's rights activists are using a 1950s law to shut down women in tech

Aren't they still using a 1950s law to integrate schools?

21 posted on 09/09/2015 5:31:15 PM PDT by Jim Noble (You walk into the room like a camel and then you frown)
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Ten, twenty, thirty years ago, women’s rights groups did exactly the same to men’s organizations. In doing so, they established the legal precedents now being used against women only organizations.

In turn, this was based on the evisceration of the idea that there is an unmentioned “right of association” in the constitution. That people had a natural right to associate with those they wanted to associate with, and in normal civilian society, to *not* be forced to associate with those they do not wish to associate with. (Outside of the military, prison, emergencies, etc.)

While the origins of this are assumed to begin with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the truth is that the end of the right of association was enabled with the 16th Amendment (the income tax), and the 17th Amendment (the direct election of US senators).

Both of these definitively ended the idea that the public are citizens of their individual states, insofar as that the federal government had to go through the individual states to have direct contact with citizens. That is, the states acted as a *buffer* against federal intrusion into our lives. And this was stripped away.

From that point, the “federal beast” was released, wanting involvement in every particular of our lives, always striving to be more intrusive, omnipresent, voyeuristic, and controlling.

And a big part of this was in negating our right of association. That the federal government has the authority to decree who will be our neighbors and our friends. Who we may do business with, and how.


22 posted on 09/09/2015 5:32:19 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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We SHOULD be fighting off the H1B heathens.


24 posted on 09/09/2015 6:01:49 PM PDT by Blogatron (Allah is Satan)
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As Martin Luther Enterprise once said, I have a dream that one day, women everywhere will judge men by what’s in their character, not their pants.


25 posted on 09/09/2015 6:11:29 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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