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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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UptoapointLordCopper · 06/02/2015 10:35

I work part time and have had it up hear > from either people who think I have an easy life. "How nice it is for you to go home so early! I wish I can go home early!"

Artifexmumdi · 06/02/2015 10:28

Nice! Also, that is an amazing thing to do. I couldn't do it!

Petula, you and AskBasil are doing sterling work on that thread.

I know it is pages and pages away, but thank you everyone for advice re: buggies. We have gone the buggy board route and it is working beautifully.

I am finding a lot of things annoy me at the moment. I have to hide threads about SAHPs and WOHPs because I am tired of being told that my life as a SAHM is a piece of piss. Not for me it isn't. There are a load of things around housework that I did not learn how to do that I am learning now and some of these things my dyspraxia does not help with. I am also trying to juggle 2 under 2s one of whom wails because he can't walk yet and one who undoes any organisation I do as fast as I do it not to mention making sure DD1 has all her kit for school.

On another note, I was watching 'Meet The Fockers' the other day and I effing hate the jokes about Greg being a nurse. I mean those jokes manage to insult everyone all at once. A nurse must be a woman because being a nurse is an inferior job because women are inferior so a man doing it must be an inferior man. FFS!

HouseWhereNobodyLives · 05/02/2015 21:53

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kickassangel · 05/02/2015 21:51

In other news ...

The winner of THE Empire State Building annual stair run was a woman who has won six years in a row. The men's race ...

So, a woman got top billing and it was read on the news as THE race, and the men's race.

EBearhug · 05/02/2015 21:44

Today, I have been annoyed by someone who thinks there's an issue in some industries that means BME people are under-represented, and this is mainly down to societal problems. However, while he acknowledge that women are under-represented in some industries, that is apparently down to differences in biology.

And apparently women are the ones who are not as good at logic...

PetulaGordino · 05/02/2015 21:14

Just drawing your attention to this request to MNHQ to have the founder of the Abortion Support Network, helping women with unwanted pregnancies in NI. they've said they'll ask her if there is enough interest from MNers and I think this would be an excellent and really important webchat

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2301073-webchat-idea-what-do-other-mumsnetters-think?msgid=52378733#52378733

HouseWhereNobodyLives · 05/02/2015 20:56

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WhatWouldFreddieDo · 05/02/2015 19:25

Ah good. Brandy/whisky/schnapps to warm up I hope.

Meanwhile I've been crawling our local lanes in the dark looking for a child's mother who was supposed to collect said child but obviously was waiting outside the wrong house and with a dead mobile ... Hmm

HouseWhereNobodyLives · 05/02/2015 18:21

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WhatWouldFreddieDo · 05/02/2015 18:16

House oh no. Guessing you're not there by choice ... Are you waiting for a knight in shining tow-truck Wink

HouseWhereNobodyLives · 05/02/2015 17:54

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ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 05/02/2015 15:49

Yes, I've had this argument with her before.

Women, know your vessel-ey place!

PetulaGordino · 05/02/2015 15:41

i saw that thread hoppy. there is a poster very early on the thread with form for particularly anti-feminist goady behaviour i noticed

ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 05/02/2015 15:06

I should know better than to stick my head into abortion threads. I'm going to go and have a cup of tea and step away from the internet for a minute.

PetulaGordino · 05/02/2015 09:50

yes we have been reliant on those, which means the power keeps cutting out due to the burden of electric heaters!

ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 05/02/2015 09:16

This room doesn't have any radiators in it (functioning ones anyway) so we're reliant on a little plug in heater. In the summer it will obviously all be working and we'll melt.

PetulaGordino · 05/02/2015 08:53

our office heating doesn't work. it is freezing from mon-weds, then thurs-fri we are all sweating

every morning we get an email from estates saying "we are aware of the heating problems and the engineer is looking into it"

ifyourehoppyandyouknowit · 05/02/2015 08:49

It's not terribly cold here, but my office is freezing. Am still wearing my coat.

buffy are they sniffing too?

EBearhug · 05/02/2015 08:46

You mean they're allowing living people to travel?

BuffyBotRebooted · 05/02/2015 08:37

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UptoapointLordCopper · 05/02/2015 07:46

Brr.

I've ordered a new coat for DS2 because his has torn everything. Hmm

kickassangel · 04/02/2015 21:16

Well today is only a few degrees below freezing and only aninchofsnow coming down.best weather we've had in a while.

HouseWhereNobodyLives · 04/02/2015 19:46

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