Michael Cohn.
What did this genius do? Well, apparently he purchased tickets for a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball game last season, a game played on Mother's Day. The Angels had a promotion that day where women 18 and over were given a tote bag. He didn't get one, not being a woman, 18 or older, and he's suing. For damages.
Associated Press -- A man who was denied a red nylon tote bag during a Mother's Day promotion at an Angels baseball game has filed a sex and age discrimination lawsuit against the team.
The class action claim filed by Michael Cohn, a Los Angeles psychologist, alleges that thousands of males and fans under age 18 are entitled to $4,000 in damages each because they were treated unequally at last May's promotion. Women over 18 received the gifts.
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The team responded to a complaint letter that Cohn wrote last June by sending him four tote bags and a letter stating the team "ran out of the item that day and had to order more."
"They claimed they didn't have any more bags, but my client said there was a mountain of bags stacked so high a show dog couldn't have jumped over them," said Alfred Rava, Cohn's San Diego-based attorney.
Cohn could not be reached for comment.
This weekend's Mother's Day promotion will offer tote bags to the first 25,000 fans over age 18, rather than cater specifically to women. Mead would not say whether the change was in response to Cohn's complaint.
Rava said the altered promotion still violates the civil rights of fans under age 18.
Sports franchises have given away things for years and years, often to different groups for whom the gift would be particularly intriguing. The Angels, I'm sure, thought that giving women a gift on Mother's Day was a reasonably logical thing to do. When he asked for one later, they sent him four (clearly demostrating the immense value of the bags). Now he wants $4000. A person. For everyone who didn't get the bags. I'm not sure where the show dogs entered the equation, however.
You know, if this were some 16 year old woman with a child who was being told she couldn't have the gift because she wasn't old enough, then it would be a stupid argument, but I'd listen. This guy makes the rest of us look bad.On the other hand, $4000 would pay for the gas it takes to get to Anaheim in that traffic.
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It's kind of like when the sportswriters used to give MVP awards to other players, even though MJ was still the best player in the league when the Bulls were winning championships, because we already knew how amazing he was, so they looked for other people to be impressed by. Maybe it could be the Chimpy McFlightsuit Dumbass of the week award.
Few would find it so petty if women were denied stereotypically “male” handouts, such as baseballs, even on fathers’ day. And even seemingly “petty” discrimination against men like this feeds into the larger problem of gender stereotypes, misandry and anti-male sexism,and the fact that men aren’t taught or conditioned to speak out about it is part of the reason why it is allowed to continue even in much larger areas involving basic human rights: fathers denied equal parenting access rights; men getting higher sentences than women for the same crime; incarcerated fathers denied equal
visitation rights with their children; male victims of domeestic violence
and their children (there are many) denied equal services under the law; men ages 18 to 45 being exempted from the international ban on forced labor in the Forced Labour Convention of 1930, Article 11 (now ratified by 168 nations); men denied equal pricing or services at hotels, car washes, restaurants, etc. etc. It’s all related.
The media ignores men’s complaints about the larger forms of discrimination but jumps all over the smaller forms such as this one, because media is only interested in sensationalism and fails to see deeper into the real issues. I support any man who complains when he is discriminated against as a man, no matter how large or small it may seem.
For more, see www.ncfmla.org and www.mensactivism.org
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