-- Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum, explaining the rationale behind a new lawsuit in which a male lawyer "best known for suing Manhattan nightclubsHis beef is not really with women's studies but with the way it spreads the 'religion' of feminism, again helped by federal money, which he contends violates the establishment clause.
because they offered free or discounted Ladies Night drinks to women" alleges that Columbia University cannot spend federal money it receives on its Institute for Research on Women and Gender, based on this reasoning: "Women's studies courses ... discriminate against men and are therefore in violation of the 5th and 14th amendments" to the U.S. Constitution.
