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Join me, if you will, in envisaging the feminist pub

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LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 17/09/2013 14:35

Inspired by the obvious thread, I feel we need a fictional pub that's as the same sort of mecca for feminists. The antidote to the classic sexist bloke pub, where the floor is sticky and you can't get to the bar without pushing past three Important Regulars peering at your boobs and making blonde jokes, while the barman asks 'are you sure' when you order real ale and the beer for ladies comes in comedy funny-shaped pint glasses for our wee delicate hands.

In the feminist pub, I want to outlaw stupid jokes, obviously. But I also think the bar needs to be at a height that doesn't put my boobs on pint-level for every bloke there. And I would like it if there were etiquette that, when you've got your pint, you don't sit chatting to the barman and taking up space, you move away (I have never seen a woman sit on the edge of a bar, alone).

And I fancy copies of classics like 'Letters from a fainthearted feminist' standing about dog-earned on the bookcases, in place of old back issues of Spectator or random leather-bound books by dead white men.

Shall I apply for a pub lease then? And what else do we want in the feminist pub?

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ModeratelyObvious · 17/09/2013 18:46

The Red Dragon

Grin
ModeratelyObvious · 17/09/2013 18:45

The Germaine's Head?

St Cordelia's?

MrsGeologist · 17/09/2013 18:43

The Braziered Brassiere

(Yes I know there were no bras burned)

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 17/09/2013 18:42

This lot have a Feminist beer scroll down

LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 17/09/2013 18:28

I want the feminist microbrewery.

No ideas for the name but I anticipate them eagerly.

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MrsGeologist · 17/09/2013 18:27

It needs to serve ale though, just feminist ale. I'm not sure there is any, so it may be to have a microbrewery attached to the feminist pub.

What would it be called?

LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 17/09/2013 18:16

Good call geologist.

I couldn't take a flying leap over the average pub bar if I tried, FWIW.

Can we also outlaw ridiculous cutesy synonyms for men's/women's toilets? Especially themed ones. Hmm

I had to visit somewhere that thought it was cute to have 'Dongs' and 'Pussies' scribbled in by the management under the names.

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WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 17/09/2013 18:16

Or these crisps man crisps

MrsGeologist · 17/09/2013 18:13

Also it would not serve this beer.

MrsGeologist · 17/09/2013 18:11

I think the height of the bar is more to do with stopping drunk people taking a flying leap over the bar. I have no clue if this would be an issue in a feminist pub.

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SunshineSuperNova · 17/09/2013 18:05

Decent wine :)

LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 17/09/2013 18:03

Sounds good! Smile

I reckon we also need better music on the feminist pub juke box, but I am not sure what to suggest. Anyone?

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LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 17/09/2013 17:56

And with MN as the homepage. Naturally. Smile

Btw, kim, I'm around in York next week, if you're free for a coffee sometime? It might have to be a bog-standard non-feminist-utopian pub, but still.

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LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 17/09/2013 17:51

That is exactly like me, kim. How did you know?! Grin

I have made perry, mind.

And oooh, yes, sofas where you can read, please.

We also surely need a creche. Somewhere you can go, dump the children for a while, get mildly tipsy, sober up, then pick them up again. For those of us sad childless types like me there would be an opportunity to awww over the creche, until we became wide-eyed at the reality. We'd fund it using the money the government would save in paying out for initiatives to educate childless idiots in the realities of small children being annoying.

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kim147 · 17/09/2013 17:49

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ModeratelyObvious · 17/09/2013 17:46

Perry, LRD.

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LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 17/09/2013 17:32

Btw, what is Babycham?

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LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 17/09/2013 17:31

eldritch - nooo!

There must be an area where you go to be chatted up. So if you are feeling a bit frisky you can go sit there, and otherwise you will be delightfully free of random 'yer here on yer own luv?' crap.

I agree with the inspirational sayings. Personally I shall enjoy smoke-darkened beams inscribed with:

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."

“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”

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