Some organizations manage to come up with creative ideas to mask discrimination. We thought we’d heard them all, until a story started circulating about a Louisiana country club that tried to keep its dining room a men-only enclave.
We suppose you could subtitle this story “Why So Few Members Ordered the Hot Soup.”
Anyway, the club recently lost a court battle to exclude women from eating in the club’s dining room. The loss came despite a valiant effort by the club’s lawyers to invoke a novel reason for the men-only rule:
Some male members liked to dine in the nude. Therefore, the issue wasn’t one of discrimination, but rather one of privacy.
A presumably fully clothed judge rejected the reasoning and ordered the club to open up its dining room to women — who no doubt won’t have much of an appetite.
