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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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TheFallenNinja · 17/09/2013 16:28

What would go on the card behind the peanuts?

EldritchCleavage · 17/09/2013 16:26

No objection to Babycham, as long as I don't have to drink it.

There will be a designated area for people on their own who absolutely do not want to be chatted up or approached or importuned in any way. Which is not to say you can do that in the rest of the pub, just that if you sit in the designated 'Bog Off and Leave Me Alone' area you can't be approached at all, even to be asked where the loos are.

The Sports Lounge will feature women's sport only.

There will be a noticeboard with information about feminism conferences, women's rights campaigns and anything else we decide we want to know about.

TeiTetua · 17/09/2013 16:17

Will there be Babycham?

(Chorus of "No there bloody won't.")

LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 17/09/2013 16:01

Absolutely!

What pictures shall we have? A few nice ones of Million Women Rise would be good. Plus I think a nice corner with cracked photographs of random women no-one can remember looking resolute and cheery. This seems to be a pub trope with men.

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kim147 · 17/09/2013 15:57

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LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 17/09/2013 15:56

Ah, fair point, I do like to gesticulate. Grin

I think what bugs me was when someone decided the tall slim pint glasses were ladylike. They make me feel as if I should be drinking lager. Envy

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whatdoesittake48 · 17/09/2013 15:54

Actually I like the taller curvier pint glasses as my hands are tiny and I have to clutch my drink with two hands - which is annoying if I am wanting to gesticulate with the other.

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