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Related: About this forumHope I'm posting this in the right place. Infuriates me... Augusta..
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Hope I'm posting this in the right place. Infuriates me... Augusta.. (Original Post)
monmouth
Mar 2012
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Yes...I believe that's what I said. If the CEO was a male, there would be no discussion..n/t
monmouth
Mar 2012
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mactime
(202 posts)1. It infuriates you
that a private organisation can make decisions on who it will allow to join?
monmouth
(21,078 posts)3. Yes...I believe that's what I said. If the CEO was a male, there would be no discussion..n/t
niyad
(113,315 posts)4. very true, since the previous ceo was admitted.
niyad
(113,315 posts)5. that private organization is allowed to make its rules, and WE are allowed to think, and say,
that those rules are sexist, and total bs. works both ways, in case you didn't realize.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)2. A great example of how equal rights are subverted and the power of the old boy network is kept.
When I was in college the local country club had always extended a membership to the college president, until the college selected a Jew. It took them the better part of a year to realize that their cloistered little world wasn't coming to an end by admitting him. I doubt that they would have struggled any less if the president were a woman.
Augusta National having no women members in 2012 is nothing to brag about and allowing spouses and other women to participate in some parts of the club really isn't the same thing.
It infuriates me too.