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Feminist Pub 16: where the Bluestockings develop armoured stockings to deal with the thousand paper cuts

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FibonacciSeries · 14/01/2015 12:39

Carry on.

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HouseWhereNobodyLives · 30/01/2015 09:47

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FuckOffGroundhog · 30/01/2015 09:43

But I didn't have the energy last night.

:( there's always that feeling that you should though isn't there? Like it's your job to politely and repeatedly explain to people why it's not OK.

HouseWhereNobodyLives · 30/01/2015 09:42

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BuffytheReasonableFeminist · 30/01/2015 09:42

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HouseWhereNobodyLives · 30/01/2015 09:40

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FuckOffGroundhog · 30/01/2015 09:37

He was given a caution Hmm and put on the register for 5 years. So, clearly someone thought he was looking at sex abuse..but didn't care enough to actually give him jail time.

A friend came up to me in the pub yesterday to tell me all about why he thinks CE is innocent. It's

You might want to give the friend a wide berth. Especially if you had been drinking at the pub. Seriously, do men realise what they are actually saying when they excuse his behavior? If you had been quite drunk would he have been happy for someone to walk in to your room and "have a go"? Angry

HouseWhereNobodyLives · 30/01/2015 09:22

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FuckOffGroundhog · 30/01/2015 09:11

Ah shit sorry that was meant to be a new thread, but anyway. Yes, why is he?

FuckOffGroundhog · 30/01/2015 09:10

Does anyone know why The Who are still playing concerts? I thought after Saville we were collectively becoming less accepting of sexual abuse against children? Have we just conveniently forgotten about Pete Townshend paying for child sex abuse images thing because they play a good tune? Or do people believe it was really "research"

PetulaGordino · 30/01/2015 08:53

dp was very amused by how "unladylike" my response was to this "news"!

PuffinsAreFictitious · 30/01/2015 08:42

I'm very happy to say all manner of not-ladylike words on camera whenever they offer to pay me to do so.

YonicScrewdriver · 30/01/2015 08:41

Yup! And we could teach Kim to say wankbadger.

UptoapointLordCopper · 30/01/2015 08:36

If they want news about women swearing they should come here. It would make their eyes water. Grin

PetulaGordino · 30/01/2015 07:56

Thing that has made me grumpy this morning:

The today programme noted that all the papers are reporting kim sears swearing whilst watching Andy Murray playing tennis. This is apparently observed through lip reading

John humphries interviewed annabelle croft (who I am sure has far more important things to think about) about this, who basically said that KS is a "lovely girl" who "unfortunately" got caught out and she will probably be more careful in future. JH asked if we would view a male partner of a tennis player in the same way, AC said we would probably scrutinise just as much

Grr

  1. WHY IS THIS NEWS?? Adult woman swears in emotionally charged situation shocker!
  1. If it were the male partner of a tennis player the cameras would merely glance at him and it certainly wouldn't be broadcast much. It's only through continuous training of the cameras on her that this was noticed
PetulaGordino · 30/01/2015 06:57

I remember enjoying anya seton's katherine as a teenager which obviously gives the Tudor ancestry

Apparently elizabeth of York was 5' 11.5"

EBearhug · 29/01/2015 21:05

I agree Henry VII is more interesting. He failed to produce much scandal though, being all sensible about money and stuff, so that's why he's overlooked.

PetulaGordino · 29/01/2015 20:35

It's dp who's the snob - I'm with you puffins Wink

HouseWhereNobodyLives · 29/01/2015 20:27

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PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 29/01/2015 20:04

My historical knowledge is woeful. But I don't know quite where to start.Blush

UptoapointLordCopper · 29/01/2015 18:34

Another dull fact: My children are engaged in drawing portraits of their soft toys. Hmm Peace and quiet.

UptoapointLordCopper · 29/01/2015 18:33

Buffy's post at 12:43:05 - That is exactly what I mean by my Sweeping Statement. >

PuffinsAreFictitious · 29/01/2015 18:11

Pointless and non paradigm shifting fact for the day.

Æthelstan was crowned in the town that I spent part of my childhood in. I have touched, with my bare hand, the rock that his royal bottom sat on while he was having a crown plonked on his head.

I have a good friend who's name is Thorbjorn, but with the proper symbol for th and umlauts and everything.

I find Henry viii's reign fascinating, not from a salacious who shagged who to get a prince PoV, but because it was a reign where pretty much everything was different when it ended to when it began, all over the "known world". Boring cahhhh that I am.

BreakingDad77 · 29/01/2015 15:39

Henry's wives posts on the Relationships would be interesting - "DH's scribes are appearing at the strangeth hour of night".

PetulaGordino · 29/01/2015 15:09

he would be assumed to be a troll!

UptoapointLordCopper · 29/01/2015 15:02

I have a suspicion that all 6 wives would have got LTB on here ... Grin What if Henry VIII posted? He would have had such a pasting! GrinGrin Then he would have shut down the internet. Hmm