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Provocateur Lawyer Losing War Against Ladies' Nights
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Ben Yakas
Published Jan 14, 2011
Modified Jan 14, 2011
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Roy Den Hollander is losing the war against ladies' nights. The lawyer provocateur has spent the last three years filing class-action lawsuits, appeals and petitions fighting the systematic destruction of society caused by bars giving free or reduced admission to women on ladies’ nights. This week, he learned that the Supreme Court had refused to hear his case. “Of course, the three females on the court probably voted against it. Fighting for the rights of men is not very popular thing to do in America these days," he told the Times.
Yes, Hollander is not just fighting for himself, but for MAN. But the rabbit hole goes even deeper for this crusader, for you see, he believes the whole issue is predicated on the idea that feminism is actually a religion. “The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that religion is a belief system that occupies the same space in a person’s activities as a traditional religion like Catholicism or Protestantism - a system that dictates your ethical and moral standards and activities. The feminists have taken control over every institution in this country — they want to take control over men. I’m going to fight them to my last dollar, last breath.” One Judge who threw out the suit said that “feminism is no more a religion than physics.”
But dear friends, don't mistake his anti-feminist furor for misogyny. For if Hollander sees a hot piece of tail, he does not feel hatred: “When I go to a club and I’m looking at some young babe, I do not have malice in my heart. When some great looking 20-year-old babe is walking down the street, it is not malice in my heart that I’m feeling.” He added that he didn't want to reveal his age, lest it hurt his chances to pick up the aforementioned 20-year-old babes: “I want to continue to exploit the infinite capacity of females to delude themselves.” Ladies, you better grab this one fast before he's taken, because they certainly don't grow them like that anymore.
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