Rights and wrongs

Rolf Eden is a skeez.  He's a 77-year-old German entrepreneur who claims to have slept with upwards of 3000 women and has no intention of stopping until he is dead. 

But that's not why he's in the news.  Here's why:

According to Bild Zeitung on Thursday, the 77-year-old Eden has filed suit against a 19-year-old Berlin woman for the following reason: Despite a night on the town with Eden, which ended back at his place, she refused to have sex with him, saying he was too old for her.

"That was shattering. No woman has ever said that to me before," Eden told the tabloid. "I was crushed." He has filed charges with the prosecutors' office, he said. "After all, there are laws against discrimination."

Perhaps she should have just said he smells funny?  I don't think there's a law against that. 

Anyway, it's just another example of how clever SOBs use good laws for bad ends.

Arg.

DISCRIMINATION TRIVIA EXTRA:

Here's another study in unintended consequences, albeit one that has a much better outcome. 

Among folks who study civil rights law in the U.S., the story is often told about the real reason the Civil Rights Act includes a prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex.  Back when the Act was just a bill, its primary aim was to ban racial discrimination.  Some Congress critters opposed that, but their efforts to defeat the bill weren't having much success. 

So one of them came up with a sure-fire strategy:  amend the bill to include a ban on discrimination against women--a notion so preposterous, so outlandish, so downright absurd that it would be impossible for Congress to vote the bill into law.

Instead . . .