Roy Den Hollander -- Columbia B-school grad and self-described "anti-feminist" -- took aim this week at his alma mater's Institute for Research on Women and Gender. In a lawsuit charging sexual discrimination, Hollander calls the institute "a bastion of bigotry against men." Using Title IX as an "analogy," Hollander adds the Columbia suit to a growing stable of "Men's Rights" crusades, including a lawsuit protesting Ladies' Nights at bars, and another against VAWA, the Violence Against Women Act.

In an hour-long phone interview, Hollander waxes poetic on physical desire, his background as a draft-dodger, and the best places in New York for middle-aged dudes seeking jail-bait booty (dance class). As for Women's Studies at CU:

The whole program is about benefiting females and teaching that guys are evil and that guys are responsible for all the world's evils.

He also told me about his "Russian mafia prostitute stripper" "mistress to a Chechen warlord" ex-wife, and how she used VAWA to persecute him and/or attain US citizenship.

Roy is surprisingly interesting for a guy who spends 90% of his waking life plotting the destruction of feminism, and the other 10% trying to get laid. Our epic conversation, after the jump.

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When child art prodigy Annabel Osberg told the television last week that she was going to take Yale to court for kicking her out of its MFA program, few believed her. Hopefully, this will be the last time anyone underestimates the young painting whiz, who has found a lawyer and politely informed everyone that she is quite serious about this whole suing thing.

In the recently filed lawsuit, a copy of which has been provided by her lawyer here, Osberg reveals a few details of how she got the boot, but nothing yet that offers an explanation to this mystery.

On or about July 7, 2008, the defendant locked the plaintiff out of the studio she was renting from the defendant and thereafter locked her out of the residence she was renting from the defendant ... As a result, the plaintiff has suffered ascertainable economic losses and emotional distress.

Rough, but last I heard, schools don't usually make a habit of locking students out of their rooms just to be a bitch. Osberg wants $15,000 (about 0.00006% of Yale's endowment) and to be re-admitted into the program, but that looks doubtful. Any Yale MFAs still reading IvyGate these days? Send us the full version of this story.