NY Times to Tiger Woods: Don't Play in The Masters

New York Times (registration required) "America's All-Male Golfing Society" ^ | November 18, 2002 | NYT Editorial

[L.N. Smithee]

If the club that runs the Masters can brazenly discriminate against women, that means others can choose not to support Mr. Johnson's golfing fraternity. That includes more enlightened members of the club, CBS Sports, which televises the Masters, and the players, especially Tiger Woods...

[snip]

Tiger Woods, who has won the Masters three times, could simply choose to stay home in April...if Mr. Woods took that view, the club might suddenly find room for a few female members. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, for example, is said to be a very good golfer.

[L.N. Smithee]

Is Hootie a dinosaur by today's social norms? No doubt about it. But like the dinosaurs, Hootie and his ilk will disappear in their due time. Why the rush to kill him? Because this is just a headline-grabbing ploy by the feminists who are looking for a high-profile PR victory -- and it's a good ploy. None of the women who are making this big stink about Augusta actually want to be members in the club. They simply want to defeat it by walking through the doors, possibly never to return (see Renne, Louise). Johnson knows that if he gives in to the Kim Gandys of the world, his bust will in effect be mounted on a wall of the headquarters of the National Organization of Women. And as cornered game instinctively does, the endangered hootius malesonlius is refusing to be captured without a fierce battle.

If Justice O'Connor honestly wants to become a member of Augusta, Hootie and the old boys just might capitulate. But I seriously doubt that O'Connor cares to hang around Hootie any more than her colleague Clarence Thomas would, and she probably is perfectly happy to be welcome at the thousands of other country clubs throughout the world that would be delighted to have the first female Supreme Court justice gracing their 19th holes.

The best way to destroy stereotypes is to rise above low expectations. Tiger Woods has done just that. Feminists, by and large, have not. While there is a wealth of women who have excelled in what were once males-only-need-apply professions, feminists will, without a twinge of shame, shriek in favor of women who don't excel, insisting that special standards be set to accelerate workforce "diversity" even if lower standards for all result in potential danger for the general public. Who can forget John Stossel's interview with Gloria Steinem in which Steinem insisted that it's better for affirmative-action female firefighters to drag people from burning buildings than for firemen to carry them out on their shoulders?

I will be very disappointed in Tiger if he caves in to the ever-growing pressure. Tiger has no more responsibility than any other golfer to be the poster child for this issue. Like a lesser Jackie Robinson, he has heretofore let his excellence and class speak louder than shallow activist showboating ever would. Unlike feminists he doesn't need to create a sideshow -- he IS the show.

[patent]

Strange, is Tiger the only golfer that isn't supposed to play?

[Cicero]

When Tiger Woods first hit the headlines, bill clinton called to invite him to the White House for a photo op. Tiger told clinton he was sorry, but he had a previous engagement.

I think Tiger Woods can take care of himself.

[GSWarrior]

I suggest that the NYT refuse to cover the Masters.

[MotleyGirl70]

Already posted here.

NYT joins Masters fray, urges Tiger to skip it

[AmishDude]

Oh, I love the fight over this issue. Martha Burk is demanding that the club accept a woman -- to break down barriers and stereotypes -- and to do this she is proceeding to . . . nag them into submission.

[Glenn]

Is Hootie a dinosaur by today's social norms? No doubt about it.

Just what the hell is so great about today's "social norms"? I swear some of you people simply don't get it.

[SouthernFreebird]

Well I don't believe wanting to associate with your own gender as being a dinosaur. I think what the attempted squashing of this man is a far worse quality than any he has been accused of.

[alancarp]

Yeah - maybe Tiger could offer to have Martha caddy for him. In the par-3 event.

[Frohickey]

Is Hootie a dinosaur by today's social norms? No doubt about it.

I don't think so.

If I were to found a private club and decide that it would be men only, or women only, I should have the right to do so.

[iranger]

"Is Hootie a dinosaur by today's social norms? No doubt about it."

To the contrary, Hootie is a man's man. We need more like him.

[OldFriend]

Without Tiger there is no PGA.......

[Teacher317]

NY Times to Tiger Woods: Don't Play in The Masters

Tiger Woods to NY Times: Don't Play like You're my Master.

Tiger Woods to NY Times: Don't Publish in the Media
(since some cities may be populated by bigots)

Tiger Woods to NY Times: Don't P*** Me Off

[L.N. Smithee]

It's been posted twice since I started on my thread. I'm at work. Sorry.

[savedbygrace]

What a silly thought. The PGA was doing fine before Tiger Woods hit the scene. Has he increased viewership? Yes. Would the PGA be profitable without him? Of course.

[uncbob]

Somehow I think there are more important issues than Augusta National opening its membership to women
I doubt that their policy impinges on the well being of women one iota

Womans ( lesbian ) organizations are in the same position as the NAACP
They have run out of real issues to pursue and are fighting irrelevancy

[uncbob]

It's a real shame, used to be a good paper 20 years ago.

NYT was a liberal rag as far back as the 60s

[Teacher317]

If I were to found a private club and decide that it would be men only, or women only, I should have the right to do so.

Ah, but then the Liberals would screech that it is such popular that it is really a public accomodation, belonging to all of us, and therefore it must be open to all. Unfortunately, their tiny little brains cannot actually summon the IQ points to realize that in many cases, the exclusive nature is what makes it popular. (I'll bet the Citadel's draw is far less than it used to be)

Actually, Augusta should say that it is open to any woman who can qualify... using the same tees, etc... but then the liberals would shriek about the inherent unfairness of demanding that merit be the sole determinant, since women can't compete on an equal footing.

Of course, no woman can qualify on the same terms as the men, just like the NBA. Women therefore started their own league, making it exclusionary to men, and yet nobody raises an eyebrow at the glaring double standard.

Feminists, when they cannot earn placement on equal terms, quickly demand entry upon the inherent unfairness of a double-standard. When they cannot gain unearned entry through the legal system, they create the exact same system that they (falsely) complained existed to their detriment: a system where merit is irrelevent where one's gender is concerned.

[Lost Highway]

It's alwasys amazing to me how generous liberals are with other peoples money and careers.