Hobart's Left Eats It's Own as Men Are Denied Entry to the Ladies Lounge

The Ladies Lounge in Hobart’s Mona Museum

Give the progressive left five minutes and they will end up devouring themselves. And that is exactly what is happening at Hobart’s famous Mona Museum.

The trendy museum recently set up a women-only Ladies Lounge displaying artwork by Picasso and Sidney Nolan.

But a male patron became upset when he was denied entry to the lounge, despite paying the museum’s $35 entry fee.

He cried discrimination and has taken his case to the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

The aggrieved man, Jason Lau, told the hearing …

“I visited Mona, paid $35, on the expectation that I would have access to the museum, and I was quite surprised when I was told that I would not be able to see one exhibition, the Ladies Lounge.

“Anyone who buys a ticket would expect a fair provision of goods and services.”

Lau believed he was being discriminated against because of the dangly bit between his legs.

Although, to be fair, the museum’s owners did tell the court that entry to the Ladies Lounge was open to anyone who “identified as a woman”.

So a quick thinking Mr Lau could have been Caitlyn Jenner for the purposes of the museum tour and Bruce Jenner when he left.

Must I do all the thinking for everyone? It’s soooo exhausting. But I digress.

Mona’s counsel, Catherine Scott, conceded that the Ladies Lounge was discriminatory.

But, hilariously, she argued that was the entire point!

By discriminating against men Mona was providing equal opportunity for a disadvantaged group, that is, women, to discriminate against men even as men had discriminated against them.

And if you read that while standing on your head and being spun around and around at high speed, it actually starts to make sense.

But it gets better …

Scott argued that by being denied access to the Ladies Lounge, men were being given an equal opportunity to experience what it was like to be a woman - that is, excluded.

So, she argued, Jason Lau had not missed out on the Lounge. He had in fact received the whole experience.

Delightful.

If the tribunal upholds Lau’s complaint, the Ladies Lounge may be closed.

Lau told the tribunal he didn’t want the Ladies Lounge closed. He just wanted men to be able to enter it. Which, come to think of it, is the same as it being closed.

This is surely an argument Federal Labor, who have designed a Religious Discrimination Bill that allows gay teachers to work in Christian schools, would fully understand. But again, I digress.

Lau had one other suggestion.

What if Mona charged two different entry fees? A full fee for women who, by virtue of their sex, got to experience the entire museum. And a discounted fee for men who were not able to access the Ladies Lounge.

Mona’s counsel, Catherine Scott, made it clear that this option would not be considered since it would be discriminatory for women.

You can’t help but laugh and then cry and then laugh all over again at what a stupid, petty, ridiculous nation we have become.