Feminist Pub 14: The Bluestocking, a place for feminist chat and feminists to chat

[YonicScrewdriver]

Welcome!

This is the 14th incarnation of the Pub and is meant as a place to drop by with random thoughts and meandering chats, on feminist or other related themes. Anything you want to mull over but not necessarily start a thread about. Alternatively, flop onto the chaise lounges with some

We have a pub goat, a feminist cannon for firing at crazy sexists and a variety of drinks and snacks. And stools/bar counters at female friendly heights. And a crèche in the back somewhere

Will link the last pub in the next post!

Hello by the way, sorry I launched into my post before asking if anyone's drink needed refreshing? My round

Kickass I would love it if my DD's teachers wrote reports in 'real' language, it would be so much more personal and I'd like to know if my kids need a kick up the backside so to speak.

Thanks Yonic will check it out.

I enjoy writing bullshit, especially the ones calling people dickheads in polite formal language. So liberating.

It's not so much that "value diversity" is bullshit - rather, it's that "do not value diversity" is bullshit, and therefore it seems a bit obvious to say you "value diversity". But people seem to want you to state the obvious. If this makes sense. I'm watching Das Rheingold on youtube ...

Somebody posted on FB an old grant application, which said "give me some money to do some research" and it was approved ...

V. hard to concentrate when there are people bellowing in the background. But it seems an age-old story of people trading women like some inanimate object.

upto and those wily rhinemaidens tut tut. They are good at singing though.

They've just chopped off his arm! (Copenhagen production. A bit grim.)

Forgot you can actually pause youtube. Must go and have lunch.

Finished! That was quite good. But the goddesses looked particularly unimpressed with the proceeding - more of a here-we-go-again eye-rolling look. I like to think that at the end Fricka would have told Wotan that if he dared to trade her sister off for another poxy palace she would whack him over the head with that lethal-looking stick. Though she probably didn't sing that ...

Just because people say they value diversity does not mean they do.

Sorry to be a Wagner bore .

Quite Ebear. But no one would say they don't value diversity. I wish these people have the courage of their conviction. They are cowards.

< goes back to bloody work with it's wanking Santas>

Happy birthday, Puffins!

I've just unfriended someone on FB for shaming me for not being a mother (please don't kick me out of MN now!)

Puffins Happy birthday!

Fibonacci Not worth being friends with people like that. Hang out here!

Happy birthday Puffins!

Happy birthday, Puffins.

N'owt wrong with being a Wagner bore, LordCopper. Don't get much time to listen myself, but did catch Tristan and Isolde on the proms in the summer, and had a lovely wallow in that.

Happy birthday Puffins! Sorry that your work involves wanking Santas - are you in Artificial Insemination?

Interesting article here, though I didn't like the tone of the commentators much:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-long-list-of-sex-acts-just-got-banned-in-uk-porn-9897174.html

for Puffins. December birthdays are the best.

December birthdays are the best

They sure are! happy birthday Puffins

Yonic the subject of that article is madness. Female ejaculation? Why?! And facesitting but not choking someone with a penis. Who makes these decisions?

I dunno, but I don't want their job!

Here's a better job - Danielle George doing the Xmas lectures this year...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/science_and_nature_club/a2250216-Xmas-lectures-this-year-how-to-hack-your-home?msgid=51071218#51071218