Lingerie Ceiling?

[Drizzela]

I'm going to a conference in a couple of weeks and there will be a well known business women there talking about 'The Lingerie Ceiling' Any one heard of this/ I can't find anything online..

Whispers... the region's 'Women in Business' conference.

Sorry... But they can be useful!

I don't normally go but was intrigued by the lingerie ceiling... will report back after attending.

Me too! I am thinking it's either going to be amazing or some totally sexist bullshit.. I hope not the latter as I'll probably end up making some kind of brutal comment and showing-myself-up (as mother would say)

"Glass ceiling," I would imagine. No?

Teehee I know, hence the 'as mother would say' comment.

plupedantic, wouldn't they just call it glass ceiling if it was about the glass ceiling?

Well, if the word "feminist" can be discredited, so can phrases like "the glass ceiling", even if people want to use and discuss the concept.

The lingerie might also be a hint that they are talking about the kind of women who wear bras (as though that's a major no-no for a feminist! No way would I have ever burnt mine....).

I can't help thinking of an attempt to cover up the nudity in the Sistene Chapel, gone all pervy.

All I can think of is something to do with women trying to overcome inequalities by 'playing to their strengths/the patriarchy' and going all empowerful with lingerie and trying to be cutthroat in the boardroom and also a sexbomb in the bedroom or something. And finding that that it only gets you so far.

Really, I don't know, I just want to be on this thread when you report back, Drizzela.

Ooh yes tortoise, that could be it. Makes sense.

Or yes, it could be discrediting 'glass ceiling' to make the concept more palatable for the Im-not-a-feminist-but crew.. will find out!

"cutthroat in the boardroom and also a sexbomb in the bedroom"

Sounds like that depressing aphorism of Jerry Hall, which is always quoted: cordon bleu chef in the kitchen, whore in the bedroom, etc. Extremely depressing. Who's going to be the chef/whore for a woman, eh?

Speaking of lapdancing, I was very depressed to see a sign at Piccadilly Circus the other day: "No VAT rise on lapdances". I didn't know whether to be slightly encouraged that demand must have fallen, for them to cut prices, or depressed, that the dancers would probably be swallowing the VAT rise.

Lingerie ceiling? No idea.

Marking my place to find out later!

If I google it I get this thread and a load of stuff about lighting

ha ha I shall be disappointed if it's about lighting

God, Dittany, I think youre on to something. How depressing.

if it is what Dittany says, then thank goodness it is being talked about. I find it incredible that businesses are legally allowed to entertain clients at lapdancing clubs - I mean, how is it not sex discrimination? It also makes me mightily angry as a shareholder/customer; I would love to know which companies do this so I can avoid them.

Me too Seth's Mackerel. I know people who work for RSB do this if that's a good starting point for you? Most lapdance clubs show up on credit card bills as 'suchandsuch entertainment' so that it's not obvious to accounts staff what it's for.

Hmm, yes, Dittany's theory makes more sense than mine.

Depressing.

Drizzela, have you been to your conference now?

I am still dying to know about this term.