posted 06-02-2017 11:00 AM                    

quote: City of Austin Mayor Blog

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LETTER: WONDER WOMAN
On May 26, 2017, the Mayor received this email:

I hope every man will boycott Austin and do what he can to diminish Austin and to cause damage to the city’s image. The theater that pandered to the sexism typical of women will, I hope, regret it’s decision. The notion of a woman hero is a fine example of women’s eagerness to accept the appearance of achievement without actual achievement. Women learn from an early age to value make-up, that it’s OK to pretend that you are greater than you actually are. Women pretend they do not know that only men serve in combat because they are content to have an easier ride. Women gladly accept gold medals at the Olympics for coming in 10th and competing only against the second class of athletes. Name something invented by a woman! Achievements by the second rate gender pale in comparison to virtually everything great in human history was accomplished by men, not women. If Austin does not host a men only counter event, I will never visit Austin and will welcome it’s deteriorati on. And I will not forget that Austin is best known for Charles Whitman. Does Austin stand for gender equality or for kissing up to women? Don’t bother to respond. I already know the answer. I do not hate women. I hate their rampant hypocrisy and the hypocrisy of the “women’s movement.” Women do not want gender equality; they want more for women. Don’t bother to respond because I am sure your cowardice will generate nothing worth reading.

Richard A. Ameduri

Today he responded:

Dear Mr. Ameduri,

I am writing to alert you that your email account has been hacked by an unfortunate and unusually hostile individual. Please remedy your account’s security right away, lest this person’s uninformed and sexist rantings give you a bad name. After all, we men have to look out for each other!

Can you imagine if someone thought that you didn’t know women could serve in our combat units now without exclusion? What if someone thought you didn’t know that women invented medical syringes, life rafts, fire escapes, central and solar heating, a war-time communications system for radio-controlling torpedoes that laid the technological foundations for everything from Wi-Fi to GPS, and beer? And I hesitate to imagine how embarrassed you’d be if someone thought you were upset that a private business was realizing a business opportunity by reserving one screening this weekend for women to see a superhero movie.

You and I are serious men of substance with little time for the delicate sensitivities displayed by the pitiful creature who maligned your good name and sterling character by writing that abysmal email. I trust the news that your email account has been hacked does not cause you undue alarm and wish you well in securing your account. And in the future, should your travels take you to Austin, please know that everyone is welcome here, even people like those who wrote that email whose views are an embarrassment to modernity, decency, and common sense.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Adler

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posted 06-03-2017 12:12 AM                    

quote: Mike Blakesley

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Now, if a guy WANTS to show up there, I'd recommend that they just let him in, and let the audience do what it wants with him. Since the place IS open to the public, it's possible they can't legally exclude him. Who knows, it could be a guy who "identifies as a woman."

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posted 06-03-2017 10:49 AM                    

quote: Martin Brooks

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People who are complaining about this or think it's somehow discriminatory have too much time on their hands and need to get a life.

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posted 06-08-2017 06:29 AM                    

quote: Mitchell Dvoskin

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Many years ago, there was a Car Wash near my home that had a ladies day promotion each week, where women were charged half price. I was off work that day, and took my car for a wash. I questioned whether their policy was legal, and I was rudely told that it was their business and they will do what they want.

Having nothing better to do, I decided to find out. I called the state of NJ EEOC, and was told that no, charging women less as a promotion is illegal unless there was also a timely comparable promotion for men. I filed a complaint with the state. It cost me nothing, and as I was not looking for any monetary damages, my involvement was over. About a month later, the state EEOC informed me that the car wash was discontinuing the promotion.

A few weeks later, I went thru the car was again, and indeed the promotion was changed, so that anyone, regardless of sex, who was wearing a skirt would be half price. Nice try. I called my contact from the state, and eventually the state ended up suing the car wash for sex discrimination to end the practice. The state won.

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posted 06-10-2017 11:58 PM                       

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Movie Theater Sued for Women-only 'Wonder Woman' Screenings

By Lia Eustachewich June 7, 2017

A New York law professor has sued a theater chain for discriminating against men with women-only screenings of “Wonder Woman.”

Stephen Clark, 48, decided to sue Alamo Drafthouse after seeing a wave of complaints on the theater’s Facebook page.

“There was a vibrant argument happening on Facebook,” Clark told The Washington Post. “But when the theater responded to complaints, they were pretty snide about it and willing to mock anyone who had a complaint and that really struck me.”

The Albany Law School professor added, “There is also the fact that what they were doing is illegal.”

Alamo theaters across the country held the exclusive screenings and sold out quickly, the chain said on its website.

“Apologies, gentlemen, but we’re embracing our girl power and saying ‘No Guys Allowed’ for one special night at the Alamo Ritz,” the theater’s Austin location wrote on its website. “And when we say ‘People Who Identify As Women Only,’ we mean it. Everyone working at this screening — venue staff, projectionist, and culinary team — will be female.”

Other women-only screenings were also held in Brooklyn.

Clark’s lawsuit accuses Alamo of not just discriminating against male customers – but also male employees by staffing only women.

“It’s the principle of the thing,” he said. “I’m a gay man and I’ve studied and taught gay rights for years. Our gay bars have long said that you do not exclude people because they’re gay or straight or transgender — you just can’t do that for any reason.”

Clark further explained, “We have to deal with the bachelorette parties that come to the gay bar,” he added. “They’re terribly disruptive, but if you forbid women from coming to a gay bar, you’re starting down a slippery slope. It’s discrimination.”

On Facebook, unimpressed men railed against the Alamo in Austin.

“Great, let us know when you have guys-only screenings of Thor, Spider-Man, Star Wars, etc. Let’s see you walk the walk now that you set this precedence,” Mike Canales wrote.

The theater responded, “Very sorry if you feel excluded. We thought it might be kinda fun — for one screening — to celebrate a character who’s meant a great deal to women for close to eight decades. Again, truly, truly, truly, truly sorry that we’ve offended you.”

“Wonder Woman,” which was directed by Patty Jenkins and stars Gal Gadot as the title character, is the first superhero flick with a woman in lead role since 2005’s “Elektra.”

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