I was sitting in the office of one of my co-workers at work today when another, female co-worker entered and told us about a new professional group she'd joined. All of the investigators I work with belong to a national professional group for private investigators but lately that group's activities have been dominated by in-fighting and group politics. My female co-worker had found another group to join that consisted of members of the old professional group and promised to be business-only. No politics or in-fighting.

Great, I thought. Except there's one catch: It's only for women.

Now maybe I'm being a little persnickety, but isn't that a little offensive? This group of women have decided that the way to solve the problems with our old professional group is to exclude the men?

I asked my female co-worker about that and she replied, "Well I think the founder is homosexual so..."

So homosexuals are excluded from being accused of discrimination because of their sexual orientation? Not that this really has anything to do with anyone being gay. I simply think that the premise of this new group is offensive because it seems to imply that men are the problem in the old group.

Am I being too grouchy about this?