Tapped picks up more on the Burk satire. Calpundit wisely brings back the point. Why would a club such as Augusta want to exclude women? Didn’t people stop doing this when they stopped having super secret treehouse clubs? (Tom Tomorrow doesn’t have his posts on this up right now, but pretend there is a link). Apparently not since a bunch of bloggers insist that proclaiming someone ‘gets it’ is an argument.
The strangest thing that no one seems to be picking up on is the sheer mendacity shown by Lopez in claiming Burk is trying to rid Augusta of men.
Almost as strange is the notion that Burk is trying to attack a right. One has a right to exclude people from a private organization in most cases. Burk was quite clear she supports that right in the discussion on Crossfire. She even conceded that some organizations should be gender exclusive and in this case she isn’t pursuing a law or legal action to force change, she is simply asking them to change and applying economic pressure. Her distinction between this case and others is that Augusta National is essentially a business and networking organization rolled into one and by shutting out women is shutting out half the population from those benefits of membership.
If one disagrees with this, start chatting with the religious right groups boycotting Disney for giving gay partners benefits.
The ideal resolution is Hootie allows women in, and they have the good sense to not join.