Rick Reilly: Alfred G. Rava takes A’s to court – ESPN

June 16, 2009
3:45 pm
Posted in: Links, Politics

A man has sued the Oakland A’s for gender discrimination in handing out promotional hats only to women on Mother’s Day. Yeah, he’s probably a tool, but he’s absolutely showing how ridiculous it is to ban private discrimination.

4 Responses to “Rick Reilly: Alfred G. Rava takes A’s to court – ESPN”

  1. Notbob says:

    Although the guy is a tool, breast cancer is not just for women. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/male-breast-cancer/DS00661

  2. Don in Washington says:

    I have another lawsuit for Little Alfred. There is a hooker in San Diego
    who charges by the inch. Obviously, I can’t afford her, but Alfred could certainly enjoy a cheap night out.

    How is that fair?

    Alfred is not a man. He is a wimp. Somebody needs to straighten that boy out. If he keeps up these crazy antics, it wouldn’t surprise me if somebody did a number on him and put his dentist in a new tax bracket!

  3. Doug says:

    Discrimination is one of the most basic freedoms. To deny it is to condone slavery. If a person doesn’t want to do a service in a certain situation or for a certain culture, religion or race for whatever reason, to force him to do it is to literally enslave him, to maintain that his body is not his, but belongs to the person who insists on his services against his will.

    Though we may rightly feel repulsed by the refusal of Woolworth’s or other businesses in refusing service to, in that example, black people, what they were trying to do was philosophically as bad, if not worse, than the treatment they received. The opposite of state-mandated apartheid/discrimination/segregation is the FREEDOM to integrate, NOT state-mandated integration/affirmative action/bans against discrimination etc.

    Anti-discrimination laws trade one form of tyranny for another.

  4. Doug says:

    “How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to *anything* that we can’t get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.”
    -Marilyn vos Savant

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