How the Grinch Stole Mother's Day
From KNBC in Los Angeles:
That's just silly.
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Happy Mother's Day ... guys.
Thanks to a lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles psychologist who claims last year's Mother's Day promotion at Angel Stadium amounted to age and sex discrimination, this year the first 25,000 fans 18 or over of either sex will get free tote bags, said the Angels' Tim Mead.
Last year the free bags just went to women 18 and older, and not to Michael Cohn, who filed a lawsuit alleging the promotion was sexist and ageist.
He claims that thousands of male fans and those under the age of 18 are entitled to $4,000 in damages because they did not get "a free unisex Angels tote bag" last Mother's Day, according to the complaint filed last Thursday in Orange County Superior Court.
That's just silly.
posted by Tinley | 3:40 PM
2 Comments:
Few would find it so petty if women were denied stereotypically "male"
handouts, such as baseballs or baseball cards, when women asked for them
(even on Fathers' Day). Even "petty" discrimination against men feeds into
the larger problem of gender stereotypes, misandry and anti-male sexism.
The fact that men are conditioned to accept it is partly why it continues in
larger areas involving human rights, such as: fathers denied equal parenting
rights; men getting higher sentences for the same crime; incarcerated
fathers denied equal visitation rights with their kids; male victims of
domeestic violence and their children denied equal services; men exempted
from the international ban on forced labor; men denied equal pricing or
services at hotels, car washes, restaurants; etc. Therefore, I support any
man who complains when he is discriminated against as a man, no matter how
large or small it may seem, and no matter what his subjective motives may
be.
Most media ignore men's complaints about the larger forms of discrimination,
but jump all over the smaller forms such as this one, giving it national
coverage. That's because most media is sensationalistic, reactionary, lazy,
ignorant and biased.
He lost his case today.
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