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Judge: Women's Studies at Columbia Are Perfectly Legal

There's just no justice for dudes in this world: Last week a judge threw out a lawsuit against Columbia University over the school's practice of offering women’s studies, but no corresponding courses for men who want to study themselves. Judge Lewis Kaplan followed the recommendation of a magistrate judge and dismissed Roy Den Hollander's lawsuit, rejecting his "central claim that feminism is a religion... Feminism is no more a religion than physics, and at least the core of the complaint therefore is frivolous." Of course, if you know your Den Hollander, you know he's not about to let some treacherous, man-hating judge get the last word. He tells City Room, "The only thing frivolous and absurd is men looking for justice in the courts of America. When it comes to men’s rights, judges act with an arrogance of power, ignorance of the law, and fear of the feminists."

Infamously litigious Ladies' Night foe Roy Den Hollander got bounced from federal court yesterday by judge Miriam Cedarbaum, who rejected his lawsuit against several nightclubs for discriminating against men with their discounts for females. Hollander denounced Cederbaum as "a feminist" and told the Daily News that "this lawsuit would have put an end to guys financially subsidizing girls to party at nightclubs." The judge ruled that private clubs can charge as much as they want and dismissed Hollander's claim that a precedent was set in the '60s when two women successfully sued McSorley's after being denied alcohol. (One Daily News commenter theorizes that Den Hollander simply "hates not being a woman. He wants to be in the bars with all men to get his grease on.") His lawsuit against Columbia for offering women's study courses is still pending.

Not content with suing Manhattan nightclubs for discriminating against men on Ladies’ Night, or suing the federal government over the “unconstitutional” Violence Against Women Act, lawyer provocateur Roy Den Hollander has filed a class-action lawsuit against Columbia University for offering women’s studies courses. Hollander says the lawsuit at last completes his blockbuster “trilogy of antifeminist lawsuits,” according to City Room. A rumored prequel has him suing the Gynecological & Obstetrical Society for refusing to give him a Pap smear.

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