The Feminist Pub is Open - Chat, Rant, or pull up a chair here!

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

This thread started when we all decided to imagine what the perfect local for feminists would be like. So far, it has taps with plenty of good real ale, and some decent non-alcoholic alternatives too. There are comfy chairs and there's a feminist film night, as well as lots of nice feminist-friendly books on the shelves and space to curl up and read. The open-mic nights are attracting feminist singers and comedians, and we're just sorting out the feminist creche.

Please come along, draw up a stool, and have a good chat about whatever you fancy - as serious or as trivial as you like.

For starters, I have a half-pint of lemonade. What can I get anyone?

Penguins Excellent, I can feel like an adult again

Can I sit with a glass of bubbly, blonde hair and painted nails and not be judged to be stupid? If so, I'm in! If you've got any tapas that'd be lovely, cheers.

My first experience of malibu was neat aged about 14. Not touched it since.

Gah neat Malibu is awful! Had a friend who used to just down the whole bottle neat

Hoojim - No judging, we promise. But of course you also have to impress us with your conversation if you want us to actively think you scintillating

Of course you can, hooj! In fact I may join you. I fancy a plate of those sausages cooked in wine, but I am sure we have a more extensive menu of tapas going.

Let's be all positive. I offer this article I have been meaning to post, on an inspiring woman we don't really hear enough about except as a consort.

Marking my place with a half of Wollstonecraft light ale.

Thank you for that, eldritch.

Ooh, I love chorizo in red wine! My local pub does them beautifully, I'm visualising this as the feminist pub, it's Tudor with a wood fire. I take it we're doing away with letchy bar staff? I'm not sure I'm up to scintillating conversation just yet I'm afraid, I'll improve with wine and snacks

If it is a Tudor building it has to have associations with local witches (like one of the pubs in York where we have had feminist meetings from time to time.)

Loving the beer names. Pint of Dworkin for me, please, barwoman.

Yep, that is absolutely the idea.

No letchy bar staff.

Just a nice place for us to get together and chat about the stuff that doesn't make a full thread. Or a place where we can just think about the random things that don't make it onto a thread.

If the beer is up to scratch, there shouldn't be too many scintillating conversations.

Pint of Dworkin coming up.

There's a pub in the Wolds with lots of old photos of Land Girls on the local farms.
Can I request old-fashioned but woman-related décor? Eg lots of old agricultural equipment etc stuck to the ceiling, but only tools used by women.

Oooh, mine's a pint of Strongbow, please - I'd at how unsophisticated and non-ladeelike my drink of choice is, but frankly, my dears, I don't give a damn anymore

And please don't make me have ale - bleurgh!!

I shall also be more of a listener than a scintillating conversationalist at this point, I think.

Ok, I've settled in next to the local witches and I'm complaining about DS having lost his passport and wondering if they're any good with summoning charms or the like. offers around chorizo

Strongbow is excellent.

And the sitting by the fire works too, as do the nice pictures of historic awesome women.

The idea is, we can all sit around and chat, and when someone new walks in, we can buy them a pint, and sit then down to feel comfy here.

No idea about then passport, but if he really has, hope he finds it!

Ah. I actually meant historical witches, ie they supposedly met there hundreds of years ago, but contemporary witches meeting there is an excellent idea.
Also the woman Morris dancers will come here every week after their practice.

I think we can have some continuity with the historical witches.

Please can we get in some experimental ciders? The kind you almost have to chew and make you see traces two pints in?

Red wine for me please - a nice cabernet sauvignon I do let the side down a bit by not liking lager, real ale or guinness though I could be tempted by a nice gin-based cocktail with a feministy name?

Chaos - when I was a teen, I was given "Out Of The Dolls House" - I have no idea if it's still in print, or if it's very outdated now - my teenage years were a long time ago... But I thought it was a fantastic book, I loved it. Definitely the foundation of my feminist principles.

Of course!

I like the kind that are very, very dry - mouth-drying dry.

But I think since it is coming on to autumn, we also need some nice, sweet, spiced cider to be warmed up for mulling.

And I think we need a nice pool table not taken up by blokes.

Ah yes. A Pendle witches name would be good - can we call it the Malkin Tower?

Oh, I am SO up for some daring cider tasting !

Witches, excellent!