Shorter Roy Den Hollander, Esq.*

"When my Russian mail-order bride divorced me in 2001, it had absolutely nothing to do with my shriveled, undersized...brain."

Le Sigh gigantesque.

Looks like the NYT has seen fit to publish yet another dispatch from the Department of Frustrated Old White Guys:

Roy Den Hollander is a Manhattan lawyer and a self-described antifeminist. Over the past year, he has sued Manhattan nightclubs for favoring women by offering ladies’ night discounts and has sued the federal government over a law that protects women from violence.

And now Columbia University has come within his sights. On Monday, he filed a lawsuit in United States District Court in Manhattan against Columbia for offering women’s studies courses, which Mr. Den Hollander sees as discriminatory toward men. His class-action suit accuses Columbia of using government aid to preach a “religionist belief system called feminism.” [...]

“Federal financial aid, state funds and other assistance help proselytize feminism at Columbia,” in violation of equal protection safeguards of the Fifth and 14th Amendments, claimed Mr. Den Hollander, who said, “Columbia has thrown its influence and prestige into violating the rights of men by offering a women’s studies program but no men’s studies program.”

Mr. Den Hollander devotes much of his private practice to representing men in civil cases — “antifeminist cases or guys’-rights cases,” as he puts it - and said his bitter 2001 divorce from a woman he married in Russia helped tweak his anger toward feminists and laws he sees as favoring women.

In July 2007, Mr. Den Hollander filed a class-action suit against prominent Manhattan nightclubs like Copacabana, China Club, Lotus and Sol, claiming they discriminated against men with their ladies’ nights offering free or reduced admission, which violate the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law, the suit said.

In February 2008, he filed a suit against the federal government calling parts of the Violence Against Women Act unconstitutional.

Yeah, that's right:  Bring teh bitchez over here to the States, and pretty soon they're all, "Roy Den, I want half." **

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Since I doubt that any of his organs, withered from disuse as they obviously are, could handle the stimulus, I won't bother pointing out to this sad excuse for a human being the hard facts and statistics showing, over and over and over, how men abuse, batter, rape, and murder women and get away with it. To wildly disproportionate degrees. And yes, right now, in the twenty-first century. Wealthy men, "educated" men, famous men, too.

* A deep and respectful curtsy to the gentlemen of Sadly, No!, who are pioneers in the emerging science of Shorterificationizing.

** According to my laptop calculator, that would be 1.25 inches.

(H/T Sir Charles)

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Comments

[Sir Charles]

I think you should have used centimeters in honor of our obviously very wise Russian mail order bride.

I have to say that in a world where douchebaggery flourishes on every corner it is hard to impress me anymore, but this guy is really a Grade A, hardcore, accept no substitutes, kind of douche bag.

[oddjob]

Ah, an MRA ("Men's Rights Activist")............

Hopefully this will remain under MRA troll radar. They really are some of the most tiresome sorts!

[Lisa Simeone]

Thanks, litbrit, this is hilarious!

(And how can I take seriously any guy namead "Den"?)

[Sir Charles]

oddjob,

To quote a great 'murican -- "bring 'em on."

[Curt M]

If Roy really cared about men who frequent bars he'd be suing bars that DO NOT offer ladies nights. I'd thought it was well known that the idea there was to entice more ladies to the bar in order to give the men at the bar a better chance of a "score".

Talk about shooting yourself in the ... foot.

[Neil the Ethical Werewolf]

My goodness! That man is just consumed by evil.

[Crissa]

Is there any news on the status of his lawsuits?

I do know one in San Diego was successful at targeting women's nights. Our local washmat has men's and women's day - basically each day of the week there's a reason you can get a discount, to get people to show up on lesser-used weekdays.

One would think simple defenses such as demographical data would be more than enough to get a judge to kick this guy out.

[Sir Charles]

As a lawyer I can assure that this suit has no merit whatsoever and will probably get tossed on a motion to dismiss. But if I were representing Columbia I wouldn't be satisfied until I got sanctions against this clown and an award of attorneys' fees and costs.