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'Mens' rights' activist loses court case that called nightclub's $350 vodka a human rights violation
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Alexander Hunter wrote this week that Roy Den Hollander was not a 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.
This wasn't Hollander's first longshot lawsuit.
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.
Hollander said the defeats were starting to get to him.
"I'm beginning to think it's time for vigilante justice – civil disobedience," he said, elaborating that he "may pull a Carrie Nation on the Ladies' Nights clubs."
Carrie Nation, who died in 1911, was a radical member of the temperance movement who vandalized bars with a hatchet.
'Mens' rights' activist loses court case that called nightclub's $350 vodka a human rights violation
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Alexander Hunter wrote this week that Roy Den Hollander was not a 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.
This wasn't Hollander's first longshot lawsuit.
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.
Hollander said the defeats were starting to get to him.
"I'm beginning to think it's time for vigilante justice – civil disobedience," he said, elaborating that he "may pull a Carrie Nation on the Ladies' Nights clubs."
Carrie Nation, who died in 1911, was a radical member of the temperance movement who vandalized bars with a hatchet.