Feminist Pub X: Regulars and new faces welcome, consciousness raising is a possibility.

[CaptChaos]

The old pub now has less than 10 posts to go, so I thought I'd start a new one. The old one can be found here

This is a place for feminist pom pom waving and talking about stuff which might not need a thread for itself.

Fill your boots.

No daughter pimping in AofE. In fact, as far as I remember, not women at all!

No comment, on the whole post which all seems pretty crap, but "sorry" to me in that context means, "i am so upset (sad) that happened to you" not i have taken responsibility for this thing that happened to.

Years of "but it wasn't your fault" and looks in the UK haven't broken me of the habit of saying "I'm sorry" when something happens to someone.

Wonder if the writers on Tomb Raider are British or American?

i have consulted dp on the important matter of daughter pimping - apparently it is "medieval total war"

Out of my depth with all this gaming stuff. I'm playing 2048 at the moment. V. relaxing.

Petula the brown snakes are not getting longer and Bach's partita in C minor is not getting any better. Bloody work.

Powers of 2 are not sexist. Are they?

oh boo lordc. i'm halfway through a snail, which is rather smug of me

also trying to do job application (didn't get the one i wasn't qualified for)

i like 2048. i can win that

So there are, Buffy.

Something is on my mind, and sorry if it distracts the current theme of the thread.

But can you help me understand this

Given the high rate of physical abuse and its direct link to divorce, why is it not explicitly listed under divorce reasons, why is it covered under 'unreasonable conduct', why not just have an option to choose physical abuse as the reason?

Maybe because that's bringing a criminal matter into a civil process?

I'm horrified, but not particularly surprised to hear that's the case, Zulu.

I suspect it boils down to the usual crap that women aren't supposed to mention men's violence. Because NAMALT.

Annie, on t'other (MRA) thread, realise my post might've sounded rude at you when I meant to be rude at him.

Sorry if it did!

I didn't notice any rudeness directed my way, Winifred, so no worries!

My daughter was born in 1996 and her father and I married a few months after. The registrar advised us to re-register DD under the legitimacy act. I felt like I was back in a regency costume drama.

Pshaw to rape threats, death threats, violent threats, Buffy. You were RUDE and that's the WORST.

Zulu - might it be because you have to get both parties to agree about the reasons for divorce. When my sister got divorced her ex disputed loads of her examples of his unreasonable conduct because "it made him look bad", even though they were all perfectly true and the whole point was that he had been unreasonable . I assume that couples who are divorcing due to physical abuse disagree about the fact of the abuse, so the women want to be out of the marriage, but the man would never agree to physical abuse being the reason unless there is absolute proof/ a conviction. That would just drag out the whole divorce process, making it even more traumatic and stressful when it's already a traumatic and stressful time.

I'm sulking at the utter lack of hilarity at my comedic Inigo Montoya stylings. . The MRAs are right. Feminists are utterly humourless.

Aww, sorry Annie.

I have never seen The Princess Bride

That mortifying dickhead thing was a corker, though.

I have no idea Buffy. My only experience of divorce is my sister and her ex challenged everything she said, but he had never been convicted of anything so I'm not sure whether he would have been able to challenge that or not. I would hope not, but I have no idea.

Annie I'm afraid I didn't realise it was Inigo Montoya in the pics on my tiny phone screen until you mentioned it here! (For a while I thought I should be looking for ROUSes or something)