Bluestocking lock in!

Hey everyone can I venture in?? I've been on the feminist board for eight years but haven't come into the pub...I think I have internally accepted the trope that feminists are boring (as a woman I can see it's me that is boring, obviously) so have stayed away in case I bore you all!!!

I have an unopened bottle of Edinburgh Gin at the back of a cupboard. There is always gin

Tallulah, thank you

oh the temptation to post on That Other Thread saying "hey, I'm literally singing the blues in the bar right now"

cross post with Tallulah

thanks Quentin
my finger still hurts

Katara - you think there's any gin left after y'all left me here on my tod?

(don't worry, I'm not this mad in real life )

I haven't seen the Times thing. It isn't really a surprise to hear it though. I would imagine that it's been the policy unofficially and now they are declaring it

The Met never believed anyone in practice as far as I could tell, they just used to virtue-signal regardless. I can't see how their new attitude could possibly be worse than their old one

But we're making our voices heard Katara, little by little

Quentin

Hey Spring, that you under the table? Hair of the dog?

I will join you, but maybe a white wine instead of a gin.

I read the front page headline of the Times that the policy are stopping the policy of believing victims (I presume of sexual assault). I could not face reading the article, it would make me despair. It must take such enormous courage to report.

To the tune of "Ten cents a dance"

Three nights alone
Drinking and grazing
Gosh, how it creeps me out

Three nights alone
Drinking and whining
no one to hear me shout...

seven to midnight I tried them
loudly the silence it gooooooeeess
Silence is tearing my damaged finger eardrums
I will just tap my toes

Sometimes I think
I hear the barkeep
But it's a faint false hope

All that I need is a Quentin/Hairy/insert MNers as appropriate
Come on big girls
Three nights alone.....

Still drinking alone
Should go to bed really
Side note - before I joined MN I had no idea Easter was a big deal to anyone. I don't know anyone who goes in for egg hunts and gifts etc.

I can't serve Ive cut my finger with a craft knife
I am an Easter bank holiday injury cliche.

Someone has just started a thread under secondary education with a link to a gov. Petition on making the teaching of consent mandatory which I thought might be a good thing to post on the pub notice board

go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=petition.parliament.uk/petitions/203019

Tomorrow is another day.

Keep fighting the good fight

Thank you
I have a support worker from Rape Crisis but she is on holiday just now so I won’t get to speak to her for a couple of weeks.

I was thinking about formally reporting, but all the stories in the press put me off (he has already done a hatchet job of me in court) and I cannot see how it will help sort things for DC. Aside from that fact that it is my truth and I am tired of carrying it around with me.

I think it was him trying to have a normal conversation about DC after several months of minimal discussion and that normality is not possible any more. But he is like Teflon, nothing sticks, so he won’t get that. Or he is trying to still upset me, I don’t know, I don’t want to even try to figure it out.

Thank you for letting me sit here and drink gin . No-one can fix the situation. Mostly I am okay and doing better.

Acorn well done for trying. It is scary how women are silenced.

Spring, this wasn't Twitter... It was a group of professionals and the blog was very relevant to us. To be honest, I expected more considered debate. Too optimistic.

Hi Katara, can I mix you another? I hope you've got some real life support too.

Acorn, I can imagine. I get a sense that many of us won't support on Twitter because of worries around work links.

Katara, my MN skills are not good enough for the little flower picture but I'm imagining sending you electronic daffodils

Hi all, I'm a lurker slowly delurking.i just wanted to complain in a place where others get it... My first foray into being openly gender critical just went.... Badly.... It was very mild too, I just posted a link to a blog. The first comment used the word terf 😢

Thank you

I am going to ask him to go back to keeping his distance at hand overs.
That is the least he can do.

Oh Katara

Pouring you a huge G+T with lime and mint leaves in a really fancy glass.

I would like an extremely strong gin and tonic and the company of friends.

I am going to come off Twitter, I think.

I have to do four more hand overs in the next few days with DC dad.

I am a rape survivor.

The last two things are connected.

We have been in court but not about that. Now he wants to talk to me at handover and says he wants my opinion about stuff to do with DC. Stuff he already has from professionals but wants to engage with me.

I am sorry for dumping this on here. I want to be okay for DC and here is where I know people will not judge or tell me what to do.

Hipster, Ive never tried that either! Sounds good.

My sister was foolish enough to ask for planting ideas from me (I don't have a garden, but I really want one!)

She's now going to wake up to an email with my ideas that would be about 10 A4 pages if it were printed

If it’s blue drinks we’re having, mine’s a Blue Lagoon. A Blue Curacao and lemonade will do if nobody can be bothered getting the cocktail shaker out.

If the gin was blue I would be disappointed with the bottle!

Also blue gin would look like mouthwash.