Posted on 04/28/2022 6:44:29 AM PDT by billorites
Women snagging a tee time at New Jersey’s Pine Valley Golf Club, which only started admitting female members last year, is still a serious long shot, state authorities said.
New Jersey Acting Attorney General Matthew Platkin filed an 8-page civil rights complaint Wednesday against the iconic South Jersey course, alleging a “pattern of gender-based discrimination” at the male-dominated, 108-year-old club.
Platkin alleges Pine Valley, routinely rated as one of the top courses nationwide, banned women from becoming members or playing the course with “extremely narrow exceptions,” or accessing its facilities.
The club also barred women from owning one of the 19 homes throughout the course unless they did so with a man, Platkin said.
“Gender-based discrimination has no place in New Jersey, period,” Platkin said. “Our Division on Civil Rights is committed to rooting out unlawful discrimination and holding accountable those who violate our laws.”
Pine Valley claimed it lifted all restrictions on membership and use of facilities based on sex or gender last spring when Platkin’s office started the investigation, he said. see also In the secretive world of America’s men-only golf clubs, even ex-Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo is reportedly on the waiting list. Inside the secretive world of America’s men-only golf clubs
But as of last July, only three women were among its 700-plus members – or less than 0.5% of overall players, Platkin said.
In addition, the club’s longstanding policy of men-only memberships disqualified women from being eligible to own or lease the private homes on its land. Pine Valley has also said it no longer plans to enter into any new leases of its property, effectively preventing women from buying the homes, Plakin said.
Women are also discriminated against when it comes to hiring practices at Pine Valley, where its employees are “overwhelmingly” men.
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I belonged to the last Toastmasters Club to allow women. I was so influenced by elder men in the club, speaking about things in their lives past and present.
The club changed once women became a part of it.
Women ruin everything.
Why don’t they start their own club?
Because they want our s**t.
“Because they want our s**t.”
Typical woman: What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is mine.
Was it a good change or a bad change?
But....but...they’re a private business just like “Twitter”.....
Worrying about stupid sh!t like this is why this country is so screwed up. Let them play for GOD’s sake!
Pine Valley might be the #1 rated golf course in the world...super hard, I doubt there is anything resembling a “women’s tee box”. The only women being discriminated against here might be the super, ultra rich - who could care less about playing golf, let alone on a course way beyond the ability level of anyone over a single digit handicap.
How many times must the Supreme Court answer this question? The Constitution gives us the right to assemble as we choose. Private clubs have no duty to people who are not part of their clubs.
No, and I’m not “worried”. I’ll never play there either.
The country is screwed up due to the 19th Amendment and feminism.
I was so influenced by elder men in the club, speaking about things in their lives past and present.
To quote a Twitter NPC: “It’s a private company...it can do anything it wants.”
Musk should buy the country club?
There are some men who feel more comfortable with just other men (and women with women). Most clubs handle that just fine with men’s and women’s leagues, etc. But I think it is the wives of the big-bucks country club men who sometimes don’t like having women there at all.
And I am surprised Toastmasters doesn’t have a sprinkling of same-sex clubs among their options.
And I am surprised Toastmasters doesn’t have a sprinkling of same-sex clubs among their options.
It is not just comfortable; it is of great value for men to pass on what being a man is.
Assistant Groundskeeper Karl Spackler is the man.
He will receive total consciousness on his death bed...
If God golfed he would structure tee times to avoid following ladies.
Does the level of wealth or assets held by the club somehow change the basic principle of free association? I don’t know, I’ve seen some pretty wealthy and exclusive circles of friends, who own some pretty nifty stuff that I wouldn’t mind having access to. Or how about a group of men who share fractional ownership of an aircraft? Can any random woman force them to admit her to the group just because she wants to be a part owner, too? Why would that be any different from the golf club?
The key word here is “private.” This is a private golf club, not a public business. The women can go start their own private golf club if they don’t like it, or join a club that does admit women.
Private clubs/bars (civic, ethnic) in my town were disappearing due to changing demographics; admitting women was usually the last step before closing altogether. The new members (who were in “auxiliaries” before) were happy until they realized they’d wrested control of an organization on its last legs. Young people saw no reason to get involved.
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