STINKING HYPOCRISY OVER MUIRFIELD AND THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

It was very tiring and very frustrating listening and watching the coverage on Muirfield and seeing the
hideous Maria Miller bandwagon jumping of every politician under the sun (except for Mike Buchanan and Nigel Farage) over the men-only rules. Cameron, Lansley, Robertson, Clegg, Salmond and Harman to name but a few (even Judy Murray waded in - does she disprove of this then)

Not one dared mention women-only golf clubs, gyms, swimming lessons, Women's Institute, sexist Race for Life. The media who are so facile did not challenge Miller or any politician on this.

If men-only golf clubs are banned and must open their doors up, then all of the above will as the law will have to be applied equally. A real victory for the law of unintended consequences (just like equality in terms of car insurance).

I do have a sneaky feeling though that a number of those bandwagon jumpers realised this and have no intention of changing the law - they just saw it as an excuse to slag off men.

So that's Ok - end men only clubs but let's wait to hear the squeals when women-only clubs suffer the same fate. And half of the single-sex golf clubs in the UK are women-only.

Posted by Skimmington

PS Janice Atkinson in the Express is very sound

 

Comments

[JH]

Watching the so called 'discussion' on Newsnight was a joke. It was nothing more than a feminist soapbox.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b037blld/Newsnight_18_07_2013/

About 30 minutes in.

[Gerry Dorrian]

If the politicos are serious about no men-only clubs they need to act to end segregation at mosques and the events they ssponsor.

[Iain Sinclair]

I cannot see that what a legally formed private club chooses to do should be the concern of politicians.
What does annoy me in the pandering to feminist ideology is the amount of public money funding sexist activities. You mention local gym and swimming pools that have women only sessions, with little or no corresponding male only sessions. What is also overlooked is that there are also women only library sessions and women only I.T. sessions.
The knock on from this sexism is that such women only sessions now demand women only staff. Men are denied employment, in these fields, purely because they are unable to staff such public amenities during women only sessions.
Of course, such abuse of public funds is not going to change whilst the make up of commissioners in the EHRC is overwhelmingly female and overwhelmingly biased in their belief that women are poor down-trodden victims.