Feminism chat thread II

[ElephantsAndMiasmas]

Since it looks like the first chat thread is about to fill up, here's the next one all ready and waiting.

Think of it as the gated commune with babysitting on demand and gorgeous poolboys serving the drinks :o

I'm ready with cucumber slices for tired eyes (mine - have another 1/2 hr sleep dd) and locks for the bathroom doors (shudder)

Shall I be the first one to scream "oh no, you're objectifying pool boys, you're sexist, this proves you should get back to the kitchen/ stop demanding equal pay/ STFU about rape, you're objectifying the menz and it's not fair and what about Loose Women? Eh? Eh?"

Stop talking so much! I can't keep up!

I want to live in the same street as my friends, so we can all have our own privacy and no rules, but we can visit eachother easily, and the children can play together when they like.

I am happier today - had chat with dp last night and I feel more reassured. I now just need to get him and ds to do more around the house!

Unruly - sorry to tell you I have only just got up! (But doubtless ds has had nana in the kitchen since 6.30!) (actually I am lying - I am still in bed with laptop and a cuppa :) )

Yeah I was waiting for that HerBea! Lenin I was going to put "poolgirls" too but thought just for once an objectified-lady-free space might be nice. Sorry :o

I'm not particularly interested in poolboys except insofar as they imply a pool, something else which commune life would make more viable.

I vote we have two: an indoor one in the old orangery (can we have the commune in a lovely old stately home please?) and a natural outdoor swimming pond, if the grounds don't already have a lake.

Oh dear I hope this outside pool is going to be well supervised so that the toddlers don't fall in...

I've been fantasising about those Irish ghost estates. If a bunch of like minded people could buy an estate for a small amount of cash, it could be made into an ideal place to live....

Is our health and safety policy going to be along the same lines as have?

I keep saying to friends that as we will all be broke in our old age we wil need to move into my house and turn the massive garden into an allotment to feed ourselves!! I'm not sure I could do a commune though...as someone else mentioned I am a bit of a loner and like my space.....
Are we going to have a cleaning and cooking rota?

Can someone else do the weeding/ mowing/ planting, except when I get an enthusiastic frenzy for one day in April when I'll do a bit of digging and then leave it in a mess for the rest of the year?

Like the one on Desperate Housewives you mean?

Along those lines?

Unwind - that really is a fantastic idea but there would have to be ways of bringing money into the community. Maybe it could be done on a timeshare basis - you work 6 months in London and then retire to Ireland for 6 months (summer obviously). Or maybe everyone has high tech low impact jobs easily performed remotely.
Maybe we get funding as some kind of Project.

Like SAF and Blackduck I would think a commune would work best as a close little village rather than a big shared house. Space and privacy, but shared logistics where convenient (childcare, movie renting).
So one of those random groups of abandoned houses in the middle of the Irish countryside might be ideal.

Yes to bathing pond
No to self-sufficiency - let's do paid work as well as some nice but possibly rather ornamental vegetables (as an excuse to bustle off somewhere wearing something sharp and in order to buy half-way decent wine and chocolate)

By the way I have hopelessly ungreen fingers but am great at cooking and making fires.

SO glad that we have the indoor pool.

Am happy to do some gardening and cooking. Please someone else look after the children though DH is good for that too.

Yes to paid work I can go out and earn a few quid and that'll keep me happy. Am not so hot on the hanging around weaving lentils front.

vezzie, we wouldn't need much to live on if we could buy the commune for buttons! Ireland has no council tax either.

I think some people would work remotely from home, some would time share, and others would do crafts, or childcare, or gardening.

Not that I've been giving this way too much thought

SGB would have to come and tell everyone off for being woo and clear them all out and organise an orgy instead.

There would be Big Rows.

I don't want a rota - hate the things! Just look after our own houses, I reckon. All the good bits of communal living and none of the shit bits!