Seriously?

Here is the title of a Yahoo sports article by Dan Wetzel of today, March 28, 2012.

  

Augusta National’s conundrum: Should the golf club purposely not invite a woman?

Seriously? This is an issue?

Wetzel explains the two “conflicting traditions”: Augusta Nationals (that’s the golf masters tournament with the green jackets club) only allows men as members (still). It also always offers membership to the CEO of IBM. Finally, 1/1/2012, for the first time, CEO, finally, has a CEO who happens to be a woman (Ginni Rometty). So they either follow one tradition and invite her or follow the other and don’t.

Come on. This is a complete no brainer. The very fact that IBM (finally) has a CEO who is female should (finally) get the people of Augusta to get with the times. Wetzel tries to excuse the sexism by saying there are women at the club—people who are guests permitted to come and play and spouses. Really? Ridiculous.

Just invite her (and hopefully she will accept) the same way you invite everyone. I understand this is always done with little fanfare. It doesn’t have to be more than a blip of “it’s about time.” After all, if it is true what Wetzel says that it isn’t an all-men club in the fact that women are there, then really, what’s the big deal? And if it is a big deal, then please, join the 21^st century.

Unbelievable that this kind of thing is news. Times change, traditions are a sorry excuse for inappropriate behavior.

Eventually, approximately half of the CEOs who “must” be invited will be women. I’m sure when this thing started, they not only had to be male, but also white and probably belonging to a certain church and all sorts of other things. Archaic.

I’d say boycott and that I won’t support the Masters tournament anymore, but really how exactly do you boycott something that doesn’t want you? The only thing is not to broadcast their tournament anymore. Yeah, good luck with that.