"Never mind what it says about the careers of Michelle Wie, Annika Sorenstam and Laura Davies, what a magnificent new definition of genetic predisposition the judgment throws up.

According to the three learned counsel sitting in Dublin, men have an absolute genetic requirement to hit a small ball into a small hole in a way that women don’t.

Not only that, it is so overwhelming that the very presence of members of the opposite sex in the vicinity can prevent them from satisfying that urge."

I don't think it has anything really to do with golf or women. Its more about being left alone to do what you want with your own club.


Well done Portmarnock golf club.

Imagine, ref Women's gymnasiums, ala Ferndale.

According to the three learned counsel sitting in Dublin, women have an absolute genetic requirement to dress in lycra leotards and pedal stationary bicycles.

Not only that, it is so overwhelming that the very presence of members of the opposite sex in the vicinity can prevent them from satisfying that urge."

Have a look at the brief history of the origins of the club, from its own website:

http://www.portmarnockgolfclub.ie/po...oundation.html

You will see it was founded and built up by men. No woman is mentioned, apart from one who happened to own a building used as the original clubhouse.

So it was a gentlemen's club, built by gentlemen for gentlemen. So women should feel privileged if they are ever invited to join, having made virtually nil contribution to it. And if they are not invited to join, they have no cause for complaint, having made virtually nil contribution to it. If they want a club, they should do exactly what those industrious and far-sighted gentlemen did; go and build their own.

Women are, after all, every bit as capable as men, are they not? Indeed even better, so we are assured; so no doubt their golf club will be better than Portmarnock. Of you go, ladies, and get cracking.

Be careful not to get your high heels snagged in the gorse.

there are wimyns clubs everywhere that vociferously exclude men;

at last a drop of defiance

no doubt the sexist ruling will be appealed to a higher court if any or they will legislate the ruling outta existence

all about equality and other such feminit cure all that ails wimyn nostrums - somehow such impact adversely on men

One part the story leaves out is how women in golf are allowed to cheat basically... They start off at 2-3 holes further than the men.

Having a men's only club is allowing these men to play with people who want to be equals. I can bet you that the women who wanted to join the club, wanted to join it using female-golf-rules.

And I have no doubt these men would have no problem accepting equals into this club. My intuition is we're not hearing the whole story.

Nope. No bias in this story... nope. none indeed...

"The club have won a landmark ruling in the Irish Supreme Court
allowing them to continue to prevent women from applying for
membership."

Actually you dimwit, the ruling allows the club to maintain it's male membership only status. You know, like many of the women only places? Or have you forgotten about how women need a "space of their own" schtick?

"The court insisted that they could carry on because the club’s
“principal purpose is to cater only for the needs of persons of a
particular gender”."

Yep! And I got no problem with women having a club that's "principal purpose is to cater only for the needs of persons of a particular gender” either. Equality... Remember?

Never mind what it says about the careers of Michelle Wie, Annika Sorenstam and Laura Davies, what a magnificent new definition of genetic predisposition the judgment throws up.

Do some research dumbass. Sorenstam and Davies are retired. And although both were (are) very good players, they were NEVER at the playing level of the bulk of male professionals.

Wie and Sorenstam attempted to enter the MENS TOUR and fail misserably. Davies, has stated publically that she was a FEMALE PRO and played on the FEMALE TOUR agains FEMALES. She cared not about the woor widdow women not being allowed shit.

And on that point (pointless it was), I thought you were whining about a private club? Not the pro circuit... Lame-ooo!

One last note. If anyone has ever seen Laura Davies play, she was magnificent. She could hit a 300 yard ball with great ease. Whereas only the upper 20 percent or so of the males even today can. SHE could more than likely compete on the male tour and actually do something. The other two? Not so much. The difference being, she didn't care about the gender shit.

TMOTS

FUCK! The word 'misogynist', or any of its variants, was/were not used, at any point in the article; this Journalist just isn't trying hard enough with the shaming language.....

This is a good victory in a way as it puts a stop to the double standard of the feminists closing down all men-only facilities whilst at the being able to kick men out of any facility they wish at will.

I'm not really bothered either way whether we get rid of single sex-establishments or not, but the double standard needs to be stooped immediately, feminists shouldn't be able to have their cake and eat it.

The main issue should be government sponsored establishments practicing sex discrimination. Clearly this is totally wrong, and any such libraries, swimming polls, gyms etc receiving taxpayer funding need to end their sexism against males immediately.

As for private companies, again there's vastly more significant issues than discrimination by groups enabling rich people to hit small balls with sticks.

most important is the right to eat, drink, sleep and to be safe and warm etc. Thus female only hotels are far more of a pressing issue, especailly considering some dv organisations refue to help male victim and instead stick them in hotels.

It would only take one big convention in a dv victim's town to fill almost every single hotel room and the only ones left could easily be a female only space. Thus such polices could easily cause and male dv victim and his chidlrne to be out on the street.

Ya, isn't the biggest crusader in the world, the NOW organization doing this for the past 30 years?

The last man they had allowed in their structure was Warren Farrell. Men are not permitted at all.

Double standards... lool

I get the feeling some group is throwing a collective tantrum over this news!

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Ya, isn't the biggest crusader in the world, the NOW organization doing this for the past 30 years?

The last man they had allowed in their structure was Warren Farrell. Men are not permitted at all.

Double standards... lool

It's not just the systemic misandry and sexism that gushes out of NOW which precludes male participation, but given how much damage Farrell did to them since he jumped ship - they're insuring against any similar occurence happening again.

Interesting to note, I can't think of one prominent female member of NOW who has EVER come out and spoken against them. The cultist hold is definitely strong there. Besides, it's a pretty cushy gig, as part of the NOW hierarchy, whereby you can legally perpetrate hatred of males, and the taxpayer will fund this. State sanctioned bigotry!