Girl ordering beer on first date

[PollyMolly1234]

What are your thoughts about this?

This reminds of a scene from Men Behaving Badly:

Woman: "I'll have a pint of lager."

Gary: "A pint of lager?? You mean two halves - the girl's way - but in a pint glass?"

So there you go everyone, even in the 90s people were laughing at this ridiculous topic.

CIS ON THE PISS

I cannot tell you how much I love that

If I could buy a badge with that on, i'd never take it off!

Shit, is this why I'm single?!

Peartree 13% beer does exist - its been brewed by Catholic monks to enable them to fast completely throughout lent for hundreds of years, fairly easy to buy in southern Germany especially at this time of year...

Is this crap still going on? I drank a pint of beer on my first date with dh 20 something years ago.

No. Absolutely not. You’ll have a small white wine or a fruit based drink.

Can I go against the grain here and say I wouldn't.. it is rather blokey and doesn't everyone on a 1st date do things in real life might not be exactly how they behave in real life.

For example - I am not a big drinker at all but if I was on a first date I would be inclined to hold back.

@HollyBayTree I totally agree, the use of the word ‘girl’ to describe a woman is hardly derogatory! When my grandma says she’s going to bingo with the girls should I correct her and say “actually you are going with a bunch of octogenarian women.” 🙈

@happinessischocolate that would piss me off so much, the pressure on men to drink socially really irritates me, since DH has reduced his pub visits a lot since we had our baby, he gets little digs and comments as if being sober somehow makes him a lesser man. I think I am sensitive to the issue though because I’m teetotal and I have an alcoholic parent.

Blizzard here and -7 but by god do I feel like a lager and lime now! A PINT of!

PMSL at the posters on mumsnet getting all sniffy and arsey at ANY female over 18 being called a 'girl.'

As a few posters have said, only on mumsnet, do women get offended by that.

I ALWAYS say 'girls night in,' and 'day trip with the girls.' If anyone got offended by it, I would tell them to grow the fuck up.

Cis on the piss - any badge makers out there? I'd buy four, one for me and one each for my 2 daughters and daughter-in-law

Well, as Micky Flanagan points out in one of his stand-up routines, wine is much stronger than beer, supposed to be enjoyed with food, and if he turned up drinking 13% beer (supposing such a thing were available), his mates would ponder if he was OK.

They'd probably also look at him a bit askance if he started drinking wine by the pint...

The two posters who have said it is "blokey", I'd be interested to find out why that is bad, what it might mean for the date, that sort of thing.

I mean if you're clearly a woman and you order a pint then you're a woman ordering a drink that is associated with men, and, what?

Not being goady, I see that years back when men were men and women were women and stepping outside gender role was met with outrage disgust and possibly violence that it mattered - and some things still are met this way, but drinks? Does it still work like this?

I'm genuinely interested to understand what the consequence might be, as you see it, of ordering a "blokey" drink.

@Hillingdon - Can I go against the grain here and say I wouldn't.. it is rather blokey and doesn't everyone on a 1st date do things in real life might not be exactly how they behave in real life

What's the point of not being yourself on a first date?
If you don't behave on a first date how you do normally, how do you know when to let the 'real you' out?
And what happens if they don't like the 'real you'?
Why do people make things so complicated?!

"Can I go against the grain here and say I wouldn't.. "

Pun intended?

Halves? You're shitting me, right??

Is this 1976? Have I fallen through some sort of timehole?

Are we actually having this conversation?

OP - and the one other person who confessed to caring about this - you really must get a grip.

When did being blokey become an bad thing?

if the person you are on a date with doesn't like women drinking pints then surely you need to be the one ditching them, not worrying what they think of you

here is an outrageous thought...he might really respect you for being you, being an independent thinker and for drinking what you bloody well please.

I asked for a guinness on a first date once. He was shocked and said "I suppose you want a int too?!" I didn't (I never drink pints), but I did just to prove a point.

28 years later we're still happily married, so he eventually got over it.

*pint not int.

Holding a glass of wine with a nicely manicured hand just makes you look better imo! Runs and hides

I think you order whatever you normally order and stop worrying about it.

It’s about being yourself around someone.

Pint of beer - fine
Pint of gin - not fine

Fekko
Depends how the dates going surely?

Yes, half pints more lady like!