Woman sues to get men to play her

[ccharles000]

Nancy Griffin prefers to play tennis against men. And she often beats them in a men's league sponsored by the city of Raleigh.

Some men don't like playing Griffin.

Three years ago, league members voted to rescind a rule that penalized them for refusing to compete against her or anyone else. The change has kept her from taking on some of the league's top players. Men have invoked both their wives and God to avoid matches against her.

Now, Griffin has made her problems on the court a matter for a court. She is suing the city, alleging discrimination. She wants the penalty rule reinstated and the city to pay her $10,000 or more for emotional distress.

Griffin has been playing since she was 10 and was recruited to play at Barton College in Wilson. In 1993 and 1994, the U.S. Tennis Association ranked her among North Carolina's top female singles players.

Today, the 41-year-old substitute teacher says her fitness and unorthodox, self-taught technique make her a formidable opponent. She rates a 5.0 on the National Tennis Rating Program's 7.0 scale. Raleigh's highest level of competition for either sex is a 4.5 challenge ladder, in which participants challenge each other to move up in ranking.

Griffin joined the men's ladder in 1999, hoping for keener competition. "I just signed up and played," she said. "Nobody tried to stop me."

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1642288.html

[Boojatta]

1. "Griffin joined the men's ladder in 1999, hoping for keener competition."

There you go. She's a sexist. No wonder she's getting entangled in a lawsuit with a city.

[lame54]

5. you forgot the sarcasm tag...

please tell me you forgot the sarcasm tag

[Curtland1015]

7. No kidding! What, women aren't good enough?

Shame on you lady!

Wait... what?

:hide:

[BlooInBloo]

2. Just play her you wusses. If she's good enough, let her keep playing...

If not, let her play somewhere appropriate to her ability.

wtf is so hard about that?

[orpupilofnature57]

3. male inferiority

[HawkerHurricane]

4. I'll say.

Semi-off topic.

My oldest daughter was in the Chess Club in Jr. High. She made her way up the ladder quite a ways because the boys would forfeit rather than play her, for fear of being beat by a 'girl'.

That kind of behavior is embarrassing in 14 year old boys. It's horrid from grown men.

[orpupilofnature57]

8. Real men love women ,they don't fear them, and celebrate their victories.

[deaniac21]

6. Oh, the horror.