Can I come over to your house tonight? If not, may I call you sexist?
Let me get this straight. Women have private clubs. They have numerous private schools. I agree with their right to maintain these as women-only. I don’t agree with their right to have government-sponsored memberships, such as enrolling in women-owned companies that get government entitlements, but this kind of favoritism exists.
Martha Burk now wants Augusta to open its doors to women (“Hootie puts his foot down,” Nov. 12). She calls them sexist, among other things. Her problem is that she has no valid argument. If she maintains that private clubs shouldn’t be able to dictate their membership then let’s begin by disassembling all women’s organizations that are sexist by her own definition.
The argument that women might make Augusta “better” is absolutely no argument. It might be a valid opinion but doesn’t make an argument. Nobody can call [Johnson] sexist without calling every single women’s group, club, school or organization sexist without being a complete hypocrite and possibly communist for desiring to reduce another freedom we have.
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