what is wrong with the burkes?
today we have regina burke, the psycho, repeatedly hallucinating about the president wrapped in nothing but a flag toga. and several months ago, martha burk proclaimed herself head policy-maker for augusta country club–a club to which she does not belong. i think she just wants attention, and maybe to be hillary clinton’s vice-presidential running mate in 2008. well, tough luck, martha. hillary likes men.
men need a place to go and be alone–somewhere besides the men’s restroom. sometimes, men (and women, too) want to have their own ‘place’, where everybody knows their name. kind of like cheers, but without having to worry about the other gender.
i’m not going to go after every person who donates money to wellesley college (an all-female college outside of boston) to pressure them to denounce the schools ‘exclusionary’ policies (but the policies shouldn’t be called exclusionary. its a private school. they can do what they want). but this is just what martha burk has done with augusta national. she has publicly criticized big-name CEOs who are members of augusta national. she said on ‘the daily show’: “patrons and employees of these companies need to know that their employers belong to this club, and that maybe in their company there is a ‘glass ceiling’ or some other sexist blah blah…”
stewart rightly disagreed with her, somehow refraining from saying, “where in the HELL did you make THAT connection?!” and instead phrasing his concern politely and voicing it in a reserved tone.
i don’t even think martha burk is doing what she’s doing to help women’s rights. i think she has a fruity personal vendetta. if she were really a champion of women’s rights, why not go after cosmo, seventeen, other magazines and every hollywood film that limits a woman’s worth to the size and shape of her body’s parts.
i don’t think it would be right to label augusta national golf club members as sexists unless we attach the same label to supporters of wellesley college(and we don’t, because that would be stupid). i don’t think it would be right to call LPGA golfers sexist, even though men are excluded from their tournaments (remember, women are permitted at PGA (men’s) events). i don’t think the augusta national issue is about women’s rights, i think its about a gender’s right to privacy.
martha burk shows reporters how she uses her fingers to count to the ‘higher numbers’ involving two digits. later, when asked her age, she replied, “i’m thiiiis many!” and showed the number on her hands. notice the photo on the wall behind her. all of the people in it are women! what an outrage! granted, its her private office, but if its on my computer screen, its a public thing! disenfranchisement!