
'Mens' rights' activist loses court case that called nightclub's $350 vodka a human rights violation
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'One lawyer's quixotic fight for men's equality suffered yet another legal setback when a judge ruled his human rights were not violated by a Chelsea nightclub that made him buy a $350 bottle of vodka to get in.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Alexander Hunter wrote this week that Roy Den Hollander was not the victim of age and gender discrimination in 2010 when a bouncer at Amnesia nightclub told the 66-year-old to pay up, while letting a young lady in for free at the same time.
"They all pull the same thing: 'These guys got gray hair, let's charge them some money,'" said the crusading barrister. "They're doing the same thing they did in the Deep South back in the 1950s. Having to buy a $350 bottle of watered down vodka – that's the 'sitting in the back of the bus' for us!"
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He also sued several Manhattan hot spots including the Copacabana for organizing "ladies’ nights" drink specials. The suit was thrown out by federal appeals court in 2010.
He also sued – twice – to halt federal funding of Columbia University's feminist studies program, arguing that feminism constitutes a "modern-day religion." Both were thrown out, most recently by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals last month.'
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