Local Augusta diamond store presents Martha Burk Sale Sunday, for men only!

Vanity ^ | 12/11/02 | Self

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

A local diamond merchant here in Augusta, Doris Diamonds, is holding a "Martha Burk Sale" this coming Sunday for MEN ONLY! They are invited to come in and pick out a Christmas gift for their wives or girlfriends. Ad is all over the radio, and people here in Augusta are loving it. We can still laugh while the liberals in rest of the US gets carried away with pontificating...

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

Merry Christmas to all Freepers

[Tijeras_Slim]

LOL! Merry Christmas!

[buffyt]

And a friend of mine last night tried to convince me that it is fine to block blacks and women from golf course memberships, saying it is a private club. I told her many restaurants are private clubs now too, would she like it if they were all White Men Only, as golf courses have historically been... she was silent. Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus for a reason. She is my hero. I am a white woman with black slave ancestors. Refusing to let blacks, or females, or native Americans, or Asians, or any other group join a public club like a golf course or restaurant makes my blood boil. I am 12th cousin of George Washington, cousin of Dolly Madison, cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln, cousin of Isaac Ryan who died at Alamo... I think I have the blood of revolution, patriotic blood, and blood of truth and justice cursing through my veins. The Taliban is the only organized group that hates women as much as the men who would refuse to allow women to join a golf course. Women only got the vote in 1920s. Women only got to enroll in Texas A&M in the 1970s. Why are men so afraid of having women around anyway? Bunch of Misogynists!

[Phantom Lord]

Refusing to let blacks, or females, or native Americans, or Asians, or any other group join a public club like a golf course or restaurant makes my blood boil.

Thats all fine and dandy, but Augusta National is NOT a public club.

Recently, Corey Eversons chain of fitness centers for WOMEN ONLY was sued for not allowing men. Ms. Everson and her company won and retained their right, as a private enterprise to exclude men as members.

[Phantom Lord]

Women only got to enroll in Texas A&M in the 1970s.

And there are still enumerable women only colleges that refuse entry to men. Including Hillary!'s alma matter.

[Bikers4Bush]

I don't care who your cousins were or what boils in your blood it's called freedom of association and whether you like it or not it's a protected right.

It has nothing to do with men being "afraid" of women it has to do with asserting rights.

Either you believe in the constitution and what it says or you don't. There is no middle ground.

[Bikers4Bush]

I don't care who your cousins were or what boils in your blood it's called freedom of association and whether you like it or not it's a protected right.

It has nothing to do with men being "afraid" of women it has to do with asserting rights.

Either you believe in the constitution and what it says or you don't. There is no middle ground.

[LibertarianInExile]

What an obvious agitprop. Go play at DU.

Oh, by the way, Ms. Abzug, PRIVATE CLUBS THAT ARE RESTAURANTS ARE ABLE TO BAN YOU JUST LIKE AUGUSTA, AND YOUR IDIOTIC POST IS FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT THEY SHOULD.

I hate golf, but I'll be watching the Masters for sure, now, just to patronize their advertisers!

[Bikers4Bush]

"The Taliban is the only organized group that hates women as much as the men who would refuse to allow women to join a golf course."

And that line right there is quite possibly the most idiotic thing I have ever seen written.

[FreeTally]

The Taliban is the only organized group that hates women as much as the men who would refuse to allow women to join a golf course.

Oh, good grief. White men are the only "group" of individuals that peopel such as yourself get pissed at when they form their own private organizations.

[Phantom Lord]

I hate golf, but I'll be watching the Masters for sure, now, just to patronize their advertisers!

Augusta dropped all advertisements during The Masters for the express purpose of not bringing them into the controversy.

[FreeTally]

PRIVATE CLUBS THAT ARE RESTAURANTS ARE ABLE TO BAN YOU JUST LIKE AUGUSTA, AND YOUR IDIOTIC POST IS FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT THEY SHOULD.

LOL!!! Big time BUMP!

[Bodacious]

GOOD!!.......when NOW elects men to their board of directors, the Toronto "women only" golf course opens it's membership to men, or YOU BUY AUGUSTA NATIONAL..then maybe you would have a leg to stand on.......but until then Augusta National is a PRIVATE CLUB....women are allowed to play there as invited guests, but have no voting power. Let's face it......even if Augusta National opened it's membership up, there are maybe 50 or 60 women who could afford the dues and fees. Unless you want a free membership, but then you would just a kept woman.

[doug from upland]

My wife belongs to an all-female health club. Should I sue to join and ruin it for them? Women are allowed to play at beautiful Augusta. Can't men or women have a club just for themselves?

[Phantom Lord]

I think you posted to the wrong person.

[buffyt]

And when I was growing up in Okla. the separate water fountains and restrooms for blacks and whites were hurtful and wrong, too. I can close my eyes and see them as plain as day, even now. So sad to try to dehumanize blacks or females.... So hurtful. I guess it makes white men feel BIG to put women and black men down. Those water fountains were in private department stores too. Not public places. Since it was a privately owned business did that make it right? NO!

[AnAmericanMother]

You must have intimidated the heck out of your friend - no wonder she was silent. She just didn't see any point arguing with somebody who has their mind made up, closed, locked, and sealed.

You have been told over and over on OTHER threads, for weeks if not months, about the right to association guaranteed in the Constitution, as well as the different between public and private accommodations. Women's colleges, women's bridge clubs, women's exercise salons, Girl Scouts, etc. are all private clubs and have the right to select their membership. The government is not permitted by the Constitution to infringe on the rights of individual Americans to choose who they want to hang around with. You don't like it, start your own club. That's what freedom is all about.

The Augusta National is a very small, very exclusive, very private club that most MEN cannot join. Bill Gates was turned away for years because he had the temerity to ASK to be invited. . . . just not done. There may be 2-3 women who have the qualifications, the interest, the golfing ability, and the money to join. As Mr. Johnson said, when the right person comes along the time will come, but it will be on Augusta National's schedule, not on the demands of some screeching harridan looking for national face time and a shot in the arm for her moribund feminist coven.

[ikka]

I will pay more attention to you when you post a similar screed condemning blacks-only clubs like the Congressional Black Caucus.

[AnAmericanMother]

Hooray for Augusta and Richmond County! It's a beautiful area and a lovely little town.

My mother's family (Griffins and Byrds and Raes) are all from there -- no relatives there now except the ones in Magnolia Cemetery. But we visit from time to time. When I was very small my grandfather took me to the Masters and showed me around the course. I wasn't as impressed as I should have been (hope Pa-Pa wasn't too offended) but I WAS very small.

[dpa5923]

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Just out of curiosity, what other of my rights do you wish to infringe upon?