Feminist pub no 12: The Bluestocking Returns, this time with goats!

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Welcome!

Haven't dared watch QT in ages, too rage inducing. Just seeing the summaries online are bad enough!

When I was younger, before I'd ever watched it, I used to think it was about debate, now I feel they mostly get people on who they know will be shocking, offensive or controversial.

Dh watches it. I try and not pay attention as it always cause The Rage. Women guests get talked over or patronized. "women's issues" get ignored.

Buffy, how did your call go? (If you want to tell us, of course)

QT where I am is just as bad. If I wanted to watch men behaving badly, I would just watch the sitcom.

It is the end of the work week where I am. I have discovered that our legal counsel is a sleazy fuck - only really met and talked to him today. I also managed to out-argue one of the other goady male managers - I think he might not like me very much in the future .

I've been reading the threads about why more people don't post here, and I realised I've been lurking for a while and I'd like to actually join in. So pulling up a chair, ordering an orange juice and saying hello

Welcome to the pub prettygirlincrimsonrose - I used to lurk too, but a few months ago I decided to join in and I've never looked back

Hiya, prettygirl, what are you drinking?

Hello to everybody!

I cannot believe that I've only watched the last two episodes of Scott and Bailey. So good! And now it's finished! All these women who are intelligent and professional without being emotionally stunted and impervious. Though that baddie is quite scary ...

I don't watch QT much either. Makes you want to scream. Though I think I did catch that one with Justine in it.

Now to the dentist, having to convince DS1 that having a dry mouth after seeing the dentist is better than having tooth decay.

Hello oubliette! We've been to that holiday place I PM'd you. It's fab!

lordc i wrote this on another thread last night, but i can't recommend scott and bailey enough - there are loads of scenes with the women police officers talking about work stuff in the loos in a way that is very realistic. a police officer i know has said it is the most realistic police drama she has seen

Hi prettygirl!
(I feel weird sitting in a pub at 11am saying "hi prettygirl". I guess that's my problem)

Interesting that those threads are marketing for us! Almost like a cunning self-originated viral campaign. Ahem. Welcome!

I have been wearing men's pants for about 6 years now and it turns out it is a THING

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/oct/29/is-this-the-end-of-gender-specific-underwear-or-just-a-load-of-pants?curator=FashionREDEF

It all started many years ago when somehow my mother found a pair of male pants in my laundry and decided that they weren't necessarily evidence of my intimacy with a MAN because (she said to my sister) "she probably just wanted to wear them under tight trousers or a clingy skirt." I experimented with snug mens' shorts under tight trousers and clingy skirts and got the Best Smoothest VPL-less Line Ever. It wasn't until about 6 years ago that I started just buying them instead of scrounging them though. So comfortable! So flattering!

This is the start of a glorious new era, people, and hurray! I am in the vanguard! I haven't been in the vanguard since I was the first person I knew who got All Your Base Are Belong To Us! (Actually I suppose my mum must have been in the vanguard as it was clearly a trick she knew)

Ooh I'd like to be in a vanguard! In reality I am almost always a sheep...

Thanks Oubliette (although I think starting to post will mean I spend even more time on MN than I do already!)

Just wanted to preserve this:

"Tbh I think some of the problem stems from the fact that feminism and feminists are seen as some kind of unified force. It's not. There's no feminist hive mind."

(From the TAAT that's about to go)

Shame that one is going as there were some good conversations happening in it

They all stem from Our Glorious Leader, don't they? Anyone know who that is?

To hark back briefly to the food thread and the man crisps: I currently have one of those hangovers that will only be appeased by crisps. I feel crap enough about having a crisp binge anyway, without being reminded that my genitals are inadequate for such a binge too. So DP bought me a big bag of wheat crunchies. Which I have always thought looked rather like crispy foreskins. Not entirely sure how or whether eating foreskinesque snacks is better than eating Man Crisps. Thoughts?

Stormy, they're all awful

wheat crunchies = foreskins
hula hoops = anuses
wotsits = small boys' cheesy penises

LordCopper - I'm definitely considering it for next year. Glad to hear you enjoyed it there!

Smoky Bacon Wheat Crunchies are fab.

And surely, being hollow, they are Yonic?

wash your mouth out yonic - yonic =/= hollow

i hate all those crisps that are like reformed prechewed potatoes. ones that look like actual potato slices are fine