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"Last Comic Standing" winner Iliza Shlesinger is being sued for turning away male ticketholders from her women’s-only comedy show in November.
According to TMZ, a man by the name of George St. George is suing Schlesinger for discrimination, going so far as to compare his plight to the Civil Rights movement.
St. George reportedly claims in the lawsuit that he bought two tickets to Shlesinger’s November 13 show “Girls Night with Iliza – No Boys Allowed” but was turned away at the door because of his sex.
He said the ordeal was “akin to the Montgomery City Lines bus company in Montgomery, Alabama circa 1955."
St. George argued that banning males is just as bad as hosting a “Caucasian Night” or “Heterosexual Night.”
He added that Shlesinger’s show set back sex equality for "hundreds of years" and "is typical of old-fashioned sexism that might also advise a young woman that her best chance for a happy life is to ace her home economics class and learn how to make a queso dip from Velveeta to catch a good man.”
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