I apologize deeply for my 3rd diary today; I try to be diligent about waiting till after midnight. But I'm a mama's boy, I deeply deeply respect my mother and women.
My mother was a late bloomer in the “work field”, we come from a fairly wealthy family. But after she put us through school ( home maker), she started her 1st job at almost 47. She put into it the same heart and diligence as she did into us and finally left the company as the CFO (mutli billion Dollar Company). All along she taught us , “ if you don't as boys and men learn to respect what you perceive as the weaker sex in the macho world, you son have not learnt how to garner the real strength a man is measured by" .
Well no less than many of you here who feel the same .
So when I saw this article in NY times I was and perhaps overreacting, simply livid.
So to the point_do you watch the Masters (golf)? Now read the treatment in our US of A clubs today in the name of ''Hey its a private club' we keep them kind of folks out' ( when was the last time we heard this language?)
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PHOENIX -- When the men of the Phoenix Country Club saw their feeding ways in peril, they did not tarry. Some sent nasty e-mail messages, hectored players on the fairway and, for good measure, urinated on a fellow club member's pecan tree.
David Kadlubowski for The New York Times
The Phoenix Country Club in Arizona.
David Kadlubowski for The New York Times
Vicki King and Roger Pearsall at their home in Phoenix, Ariz. They belonged to the Phoenix Country Club, but left in protest over the limited rights of women.
The targets of their ire were the women, and some men, who have dared to speak up against the club's policy of forbidding women in the men's grill room, a center of power dining in Phoenix.Barbara Van Sittert, one of those women, said her husband, Logan, 73, has been heckled while playing golf and once found his locker defaced.
"They hooted and hollered at him and called his wife a whore," said Mrs. Van Sittert, 72, a petite, quiet woman with an elegant white bob. "It was not warm and fuzzy."
Charges of sexism against private golf clubs are not uncommon; the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, where the Masters is held each year, does not permit women to be members.
But here in Arizona, where the governor, secretary of state, chief justice and Senate minority leader are women, it has rankled more than a few women that nonmember men have more rights than paying female members at the Phoenix Country Club, a century-old fixture in the city's social and business life where it costs tens of thousands of dollars a year to belong.
Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, is not a member of the club, but Dennis Burke, her chief of staff, is. Mr. Burke has publicly opposed the separated dining rooms, and in an interview called them "indefensible." Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, does not belong to the club but has spoken there. (The McCain presidential campaign declined to comment on the separate dining rooms.) According to a 2007 club directory, Mr. McCain's son, Andrew, is a member, along with scores of other notable Phoenix residents, including the rocker Alice Cooper.
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