Ladies Night Lawsuit Lost

by Tom Miller

According to CollegeOTR.com (that’s On The Record, hoss), a fella by the name Roy Den Hollander (isn’t that weird?) tried to sue a handful of New York nightclubs over the practice of ‘Ladies Night.’ He claimed that the discounted entry and libations were too discriminatory and he was not going to take it any more. It’s probably a good thing that he doesn’t know about their policy about not letting dudes in unless they have a bunch of good-looking women with them or plan on purchasing bottle service. That may blow his mind.

Unfortunately the judge (Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum sounds like a woman’s name) wasn’t feeling this lawsuit and said something about private institutions have the right to charge anyone whatever they please. Of course she’d say that, she’s the one benefiting from the 2-for-1 Cosmotinis on Wednesdays. Some joking aside, what does this have to do with relationships? It’s tangential, but this case holds up the time-honored tradition of filling bars with women so that men would come and spend money ostensibly to get these women to date/ sleep with them. It’s a system that’s worked to some degree or another since women haves started going to bars (which we guess was sometime in the 1920s when prohibition hit, zoot suits were the bee’s knees, and the Charleston was all the rage).

While putting the nightclub industry literally on trial, the Suing Dutchman tried to get his alma mater, Columbia University, to discontinue its Women’s Studies program on account that it was biased against dudes and, most likely, Republicans. He might be better off organizing a lawsuit against academic advisors that suggest their students go into majors with no business world equivalents (Art History, Comparative Literature, and Sociology, you are on notice).

We were under the impression that there were certain double standards that we just accepted. And you only step in when things get out-of-hand. You know, men can sleep with a bunch of chicks without being accused of having low self-esteem but may wind up with a scorching case of the herp and a woman can reasonably expect to have men buy her drinks without being called a gold digger but may end up with a scorching case of the herp. Maybe next life will be more egalitarian although we’d be a little freaked out if women were as big as men and men smelled as nice as women. Sometimes what’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander. And sometimes feminism and misandry aren’t the same thing. With any luck, Roy Den Hollander won’t run across Jezebel, his head might literally explode.

Enjoy Lil Kim and ‘em with the 1997 jam, “Ladies Night”: