Note to Augusta National: When the KKK is on your side, you’re on the wrong fuckin’ side.

A co-worker and I were just discussing this. How proud the Golf world must feel....

I think it's sad that the Feminist movement has forced a private club to be supported by the KKK. While I don't agree with the views of the KKK, I do agree with Augusta's belief that they can run their own club any way they want. If this were an institution that accepts tax money, or was some sort of public institution, I could see the gripe. It's not. These radical feminists should just leave well enough alone and go home.

Yeah, women should leave the extremely dull and stupid sports to the men.

Hee Hee

Whatever makes them happy. This is like men suing to get access to a tupperware party.

Hopefully, Anika and the woman golf pro from Connecticut do well enough in their PGA games to go to the Masters and force the issue.

Yeah, let's hope they can go and force everyone to be cookie cutter California-style people. That's the definition of modern-day diversity, isn't it? Let's stamp out anyone who does their own thing and doesn't sign on with the liberal left's view of what we should be doing. That's my view of America. Not.

Maybe I'm just not getting it, but my problem here with the whole Augusta thing is, it's acceptable for there to be organizations and establishments for just women, but if men do it it is wrong?

Can men to go women's colleges? There are 68 colleges that men can't attend. If Augusta is opened to women, do men get to attend those?

There are also course that men can't go to, none of them are on the PGA tour, but it's not like Augusta National is a monolith of sex discrimination in the world of sport.

As for the Klan, while obnoxious and stupid they are, many free-speech and free-assembly groups have sided with them in court cases, the ACLU is often the defender of the KKK in court.

And those are all well-said points. Augusta has that right.

Still...

Still, it has to be something of a mental 'knocked-on-your-ass' feeling for Augusta to hear that one of the groups leaping to your aid is the KKK. There IS a perception of the Klan that is off-putting (and certainly a perception that is negative and not wrong) that really isn't the sort of group want speaking on your behalf -- the sort of thing that makes you wonder if your earning the kinds of allies you want, or just the kind you deserve.

Having said that, I should also point out that this is about golf and not... you know... anything important.

Well, we could have major issues, like this guy:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20030228/od_nm/hanging_dc&e=3

He's going to complain to the consumer bureau...

That's how you know it's not America; in America he'd be suing.

I shouldn't get on any high-horse about excluding people, since I'm now a registered minority and I'm going to work the Great White Father for all I can.

As for the rope guy, I'm still getting ads for circa 1988 nails and screws by the metric ton from Romania.

If anyone needs a shipping container full of nails, you let me know and I'll hook you up with my buddy in the east.

Robert

If you want to play from the Women's tees...

...It would be fine by me.

Having a 38 Handicap, I do not really care where people play from (What the heck is the fairway for anyways).

As far as I know, all of the Golf courses/clubs on the current PGA tour have at least token minority members (be it race, ethnic background or religion). Full Membership for Women seems to be the last little barrier. Since Augusta caved in and allowed Blacks to join, allowing women is not that much of a big deal.

As for Woman's Colleges...If they get government funding they should be open to all.

all about the Equaility...for all...yep that's me.

Yep, I'm with Boulder dude. You'd never hear about men suing to get into Tupperware parties, Robert, because people would be happy to have them there. I bet you could easily get an invite to a Tupperware party if they still existed.