"Normal" advice to not walk around at night in Bristol.

[Motherfunster]

As a Bristolan woman I was a bit put out by the police advice that there was no specif threat to women but to take the "normal" precautions of not walking around after dark on your own.I was taken aback at this as theirs nothing bloody normal about it.

I tried contacting the local reclaim the night people but to no avail.The local students need to be advised and the bloody clicky feminist of Bristol need to understand that this is issue that need to be addressed.

I cant do anything about it do to certain circumstances.A word in there shell fellow Feminist MNers please if posable.

If there was a reclaim the night march now, a lot of us would go on it.

Thank-you dear, yours are pretty large too...

Day time meetings in a space that can acomadate unruly toddlers would be excelent.And wheelchair acess.Thinking cap on.

As I say again, apoliges for being a huge twat.

I have my moments where I can be useful too.

If I can get the babysitting.

Hi Motherfunster
Apology accepted! Thanks for that.

If there were to be daytime meetings, I'm sure there'd be people up for that. I can't as I work full time but there must be plenty of others who would be up for meeting.

I'm not sure if you've seen the other thread about the sex entertainment venue legislation but if you're free on Friday at 2pm, it would be great if you could join us at the Council House for the licensing meeting. If you can be there, I'll be coming from work so will be in a grey suit and probably a blue shirt.

We've looked at the documentation that has been issued (all 119 pages of it [fed up face emoticon!] and have submitted a question and are hoping to submit a statement as well.

On the other thread I mentioned that the licensing committee have only accepted one study that only involved interviewing lapdancers and lapdancing club owners as "independent evidence". All the other reams of academic studies and report that we, Bristol Rape Crisis, the Centre for Gender Violence Research and the NHS put forward in their consultation responses were ignored.

Needless to say, we are not impressed!

ess, would really love to and power to your elbow.I fear that my 19 month old would find the echoy shoutyness of the council building to much to resist.What time dose the meeting close and I can dive in to see if I can see you guys.

BTW You guys at the Rape Crisis are bloody amazing.[low bow of respect emoticon]

I did read that BJank and others in the council are actually in favor of tightening up the regs for lap dancing clubs.

I'm usually a bit dutch about lap dancing clubs and the like, and have had mates who had done it for various reasons.And I don't judge them for doing it.

However I have found the one across from the hippodrome a real drag to enplane to my (then 11 year old) DD who the women smoking fags in fish nets and very little else with the scabby punters out front, last summer on the way back from a mates house in the evening. Since it opened Iv had to field questions Id have rather left for much later.Alot of kids catch there bus from round there. Those lap daceing dolls that were in ASDIL awhile back made me want to gack.

I sent on a donated illustration to the BFN last night.Haven't herd back yet.Going to not jump to any conclusions this time. When it comes down to it when you have a toddler , as Victoria Wood once said, its like being on tour with a 3 foot Keith Moon.And going out to things at night are a major operation.

I'm not much use except for cartooning, it some thing I do at night after the baby goes to bed.Or I can at least take a buggy to a march.

Sorry Jess(Missed a bit)

Hi there
The meeting starts at 2pm. I'm not sure how long it'll go on for but the public forum is at the beginning. We can say our piece (we're going to submit a statement) and then either stay or go depending on how the meeting progresses.

Thanks for the compliment on Rape Crisis. However, I can't take any credit for what they do as I'm not affiliated to them in any way. I work for...actually...probably better not say on a public forum!... and this campaigning is all in my spare time (what an exciting life I lead). I'm taking annual leave to be at the meeting on Friday afternoon (ditto).

Thanks for the cartoon that you've sent to BFN. I'm sure someone will get back to you soon about it. I'm not an admin for the BFN e-mail and it's looked after by 2 BFNers who are both working full time but I'm sure they'll be in touch soon.

Hope to see the cartoon on the website soon!

Understand completely if you can't make it on Friday. These meetings can be awkward to attend. Hope to see you at a BFN/Fawcett meeting or event at some point in the future anyway.

Jess

hi Motherfunster - apology accepted.

Rape Crisis are indeed amazing, we are so lucky to have them. fingers crossed they're funding continues - if not we will have a fight on our hands.

if you can go tomorrow that would be amazing. i can't be there (work) but it really makes a difference when the public come out in support, with much cheering and booing.

We did have a daytime meeting planned last year about motherhood but was cancelled as the woman running the discussion was moving house. so if you fancy running a meeting in the day, get in touch!