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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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LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 20/09/2013 20:24

I would have had a ginger beer with you. Or bought you something stronger.

Sorry to hear about your DD. Bleee. That is not good.

(I am an even more useless source of conversation, btw, being off away from Internets, more or less.)

But I hope the evening has got better for you.

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AmandaPandtheNightmareMonsters · 20/09/2013 16:46

Aw, LRD, I'll come and have a sit and a moan with you about gate crashers now. The kids are knackered in front of Cbeebies and DH is due home soon. They'll be fine for an hour or so.

Mine's a ginger beer. What you having?

LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 20/09/2013 16:36

Oh, bugger. Sad

I was enjoying that.

We'll also have Rachel Moran along to speak one evening. That might sort out the idiots.

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yegodsandlittlefishes · 20/09/2013 13:48

Grin If you like!

Sheshelob · 20/09/2013 08:44

Shall we rename it Cunt Corner?

yegodsandlittlefishes · 20/09/2013 08:35

contactmoney please do take a seat on the lovely vag sofa. It's the best seat in the pub.

ModeratelyObvious · 20/09/2013 01:01

Sounds good, Trucks.

contactmoney · 20/09/2013 00:59

@ModeratelyObvious, what do you have against sex workers?

TrucksAndDinosaurs · 20/09/2013 00:57

Can we have
A. Juice bar
B. toastie menu
C. Decent kitchen, which does great hearty soups, home made chips, quiche, pint of prawns, mezze/ tapas stuff and bacon sandwiches? As well as weekend roast? And curry nights?
D. A massage chair and visiting shiatsu person?

ModeratelyObvious · 20/09/2013 00:51

Oh fab, the p'n poster has crashed the bar.

contactmoney · 20/09/2013 00:50

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ModeratelyObvious · 20/09/2013 00:34

Mmm, yum!

garlicbaguette · 20/09/2013 00:23

Think of Biscuit this as a doughnut.
Here, have a Cake afterwards :) Wine Wine ?

ModeratelyObvious · 19/09/2013 23:45

Can we have doughnuts?

AmandaPandtheNightmareMonsters · 19/09/2013 21:09

God yes. DD2 would rock a sontaran babysitter.

garlicbaguette · 19/09/2013 20:43

:) Sontaran baby room! Oh, yes!

LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 19/09/2013 20:39

Indeed. And this such a deep and serious thread, too.

Grin

Oh, and yes - we need a pub with a silent backroom where a (male) employee sits with all the baby monitors, ears straining for the faintest cry. His job is then to alert the pubbers and, if need be, go home to provide babysitting services.

(I am actually picturing the Sontaran nurse in Dr Who, now.)

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garlicbaguette · 19/09/2013 20:38

gender stereotypes attached to every single drink

Another random memory, this time about my student days in the North-East. I went to the pub with my boyfriend. I had a pint of bitter, he had a glass of white wine. Some blokes tried to beat him up for having the wrong drink.

I'm sure Geordieland's improved since then, but those men and all their daft friends must still be drinking in pubs. And if they dare to set foot in the Fclub, I will ram them so far down the vadge sofa, they'll come out of its ears Grin

AmandaPandtheNightmareMonsters · 19/09/2013 20:35

Ooops. Outed as not having read every post. The shame.

I may have to stay home and not show my face in the pub for a while Blush.

Ah, sod it, the kids are in bed, DH is away, but I can come if I bring the baby monitor with me can't I?

LRDMaguliYaPomochTebeSRaboti · 19/09/2013 20:28

I have covered this, amanda (she says smugly).

I do want good soft drinks.

What I want more is a pub where there aren't gender stereotypes attached to every single drink you can order.

lurkin - welcome in. Smile

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AmandaPandtheNightmareMonsters · 19/09/2013 20:27

I'm off the booze. Can we make sure that there are good soft drinks?

LordLurkin · 19/09/2013 20:25

Can I come in?

It sounds like just the right sort of pub to not have some testosterone fired idiot try and pick a fight with me just because I'm a big guy.

Good surroundings and good company are the order of the day. And good beer/cider.

MrsGeologist · 19/09/2013 19:31

Like home, but with a lot more booze.

BuffytheReasonableFeminist · 19/09/2013 17:25

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AmandaPandtheNightmareMonsters · 19/09/2013 17:23

An extension of home, but a wee bit smarter. I promise not to come in my onsie.

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