AIBU to feel a bit uncomfortable with this event?

[PamPerdbrat]

There's a ladies night event on next Saturday that a few friends and I have been invited to. The dress code is 'emergency services' and so other ladies have bought outfits from Ann Summers (naughty nurse outfits etc) with all hotpants and boobs out...

I don't know, it just doesn't sit right. I know I should go along to fit in because everyone else is. But I don't want to dress in a way that I feel cheapens me. I almost feel like its a bit degrading actually. But then, am I just being to sensitive? I am a bit that way this week

woolly YES! I want one of those!

Bloody hell wooly, I want one of those too

Could cause panic in the highstreet on the school run

Shame this is in the States or it would be £70 well spent

Thanks Pam, I think people watch too much Holby Shitty tbh with the short skirted, caked in make up, sex mad strumpet nurses. I don't take myself too seriously I promise I don't, but I am proud of what we do. And it is belittling, demeaning and disheartening that we're either represented as that, or feckless lazy slatterns. The latter usually the Daily Mail. Although I'm sure many would say its just a laugh. We fight against the 'carry on' image yet the stereotype is reinforced to men when the Ann Summers outfits come out.

Sorry, didn't realise I felt so strongly.

I don't think I'd go if I were you, I would invent an excuse rather than say why so it doesn't look like you're a prude or judgy.
It sounds unlike a ladies pamper night and more like a ladies stripper night. I once ended up at one of these by accident, I'm not a prude but I spent the whole time mouth agape at what I was seeing and the women that were prepared to go on stage and 'assist'. It was a grim affair and one I'd avoid experiencing again.

Do you really want to hang out with these people though? I know I sound judgy, and I am being judgy, but anyone who thought this was FUN, well, it would be a big "don't go any further with them" sign for me.

me too, cotes

a "ladies night" in a working mens club probably means strippers, getting shit faced, lots of lairy shouting and drinking your pint after some bloke has dipped his cock in it

not for me, not now...and never was even in my young and stupid days

Well AF, I reckon it's partly the fear of turning up and discovering you're the 'entertainment', and partly the fear of discovering that someone somewhere thinks that's entertainment.

Dress up as the RSPCA. Cover yourself in badger corpses. Call yourself General Roadkill.

Men dipping their nobs into your pint?

'I'll have a lager and nob cheese please.'

I didn't think I'd led that sheltered a life until I found MN.

a "ladies night" in a working mens club probably means strippers, getting shit faced, lots of lairy shouting and drinking your pint after some bloke has dipped his cock in it

I have certainly not led a sheltered life by any means, and have been in plenty WMCs which tend to be populated mostly by pensioners and quiet blokes playing snooker... working men is a bit of a misnomer really..

I'm firmly in the why would anyone to demean themselves by dressing up in some pseudo-sexy nylon tat school on this one. You're being perfectly reasonable to not want to go. As for it being empowering- how exactly?

And male strippers - boke. Rank.

AZZ, I once found myself, quite by accident (or naivety) at one of these "events"

one of the "dancers" dipped his dick in the lucky girls pint, then she was cheered raucously to neck it in one

that was just one of the traumatic sights burned on my retinae

lovely

Agent - yep at the one I went to a bloke did press ups with his knob going in and out of someone's pint. See, I said it was grim.

X post anyfucker. Grim events indeed.

I would never go to a thing like this.
I would never, ever step out of the house in a "sexy emergency services cosrume".
But I woukd probably make an excuse to my friends rather than explaining my true feelings.

AF

a "ladies night" in a working mens club probably means strippers, getting shit faced, lots of lairy shouting and drinking your pint after some bloke has dipped his cock in it

just a point of order - ladies and pints do not go in the same sentence

Grimola

the same applies for your vodka and tonic

or your bacardi breezer

or your Pina Colada

or your Pimms

if it's had a strange dick dipped in it, it's not for consumption

quite a few women I know drink pints

I wouldn't judge them on that

Troisgarcons, you really make me laugh. Yes, drinking a particular beverage really puts you on somewhere on the gender binary.

What a crock of shit.

There is nothing more delicious than a cold pint of cock-infused ale.

I was told by a lad when I was in my mid teens and said I'd downed a drink that 'ladies sip their drinks' trois

hahahahaha that was uncouth me told.

What's your tipple then trois?

ale, by definition, is room temperature

or body temperature if you can stomach it

I would go but find something to wear that isnt slutty i wouldnt feel comfortable in ann summers outfit outside of the bedroom either

I drink out of a bottle of becks.. If anyone can fit their cock into that, they would be too ashamed to admit it I hope.

You can get a pint of vodka and tonic AF?

'cock-infused ale.'

You could market that along the lines of cripple cock cider yellow