Score One Point For Women’s Studies, Femi-Nazis, Russian Hookers
Roy Den Hollander, our friend from last week’s Male Studies expo, got some bad, but expected, news this week. The somewhat whack-a-doodle lawyer was suing Columbia University’s women’s studies department, alleging that its very existence discriminates against men. It’s one of what he calls a “trilogy” of lawsuits, which include a case against bars that offer Ladies’ Night specials, and one challenging the Violence Against Women Act, which he calls “The Female Fraud Act.” Well, the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned his lawsuit once and for all, ruling that the idea that women’s studies hurts men is speculative.
Roy had also accused the university of preaching feminism like it was a “religion.” The judge, Lewis Kaplan, called the case “absurd” and said, “Feminism is no more a religion than physics.” So, settled then, Roy?
Nope. Roy is on a crusade—one that a lot of critics have deemed personal. Roy’s case was prompted by his now ex-wife, who he met in Russia, where he was working as a private investigator. All told, they were together for less than a year, but in that time, Roy discovered that his wife was formerly the mistress of a Chechen war lord and, he alleges, a prostitute. (Whoa.) He also thinks she drugged him. His explanation for this? Apparently she’d written (in Russian, which he had translated) something in her journal about getting him medicine from a witch doctor type. But more importantly, he says, he always felt so good when he was around her; when she wasn’t around, he’d feel so bad! “But wait,” I told him. “Isn’t that just love?”
Roy wasn’t buying it. But for what it’s worth, I think that Roy’s failed marriage was his first, and only, experience with love. His crusade is against women, specifically feminists or (as he prefers, femi-Nazis)—but if you hear the back story, maybe what this is all about is a woman who broke his heart. It’s a tale as old as time, just one that went horribly awry.
On a lighter note, when you do a Google image search for Roy Den Hollander, you get the image above, and also this one:
