Feminist Pub 16: where the Bluestockings develop armoured stockings to deal with the thousand paper cuts

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Carry on.

yes we have been reliant on those, which means the power keeps cutting out due to the burden of electric heaters!

I should know better than to stick my head into abortion threads. I'm going to go and have a cup of tea and step away from the internet for a minute.

i saw that thread hoppy. there is a poster very early on the thread with form for particularly anti-feminist goady behaviour i noticed

Yes, I've had this argument with her before.

Women, know your vessel-ey place!

House oh no. Guessing you're not there by choice ... Are you waiting for a knight in shining tow-truck

Ah good. Brandy/whisky/schnapps to warm up I hope.

Meanwhile I've been crawling our local lanes in the dark looking for a child's mother who was supposed to collect said child but obviously was waiting outside the wrong house and with a dead mobile ...

Just drawing your attention to this request to MNHQ to have the founder of the Abortion Support Network, helping women with unwanted pregnancies in NI. they've said they'll ask her if there is enough interest from MNers and I think this would be an excellent and really important webchat

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2301073-webchat-idea-what-do-other-mumsnetters-think?msgid=52378733#52378733

Today, I have been annoyed by someone who thinks there's an issue in some industries that means BME people are under-represented, and this is mainly down to societal problems. However, while he acknowledge that women are under-represented in some industries, that is apparently down to differences in biology.

And apparently women are the ones who are not as good at logic...

In other news ...

The winner of THE Empire State Building annual stair run was a woman who has won six years in a row. The men's race ...

So, a woman got top billing and it was read on the news as THE race, and the men's race.

Nice! Also, that is an amazing thing to do. I couldn't do it!

Petula, you and AskBasil are doing sterling work on that thread.

I know it is pages and pages away, but thank you everyone for advice re: buggies. We have gone the buggy board route and it is working beautifully.

I am finding a lot of things annoy me at the moment. I have to hide threads about SAHPs and WOHPs because I am tired of being told that my life as a SAHM is a piece of piss. Not for me it isn't. There are a load of things around housework that I did not learn how to do that I am learning now and some of these things my dyspraxia does not help with. I am also trying to juggle 2 under 2s one of whom wails because he can't walk yet and one who undoes any organisation I do as fast as I do it not to mention making sure DD1 has all her kit for school.

On another note, I was watching 'Meet The Fockers' the other day and I effing hate the jokes about Greg being a nurse. I mean those jokes manage to insult everyone all at once. A nurse must be a woman because being a nurse is an inferior job because women are inferior so a man doing it must be an inferior man. FFS!

I work part time and have had it up hear > from either people who think I have an easy life. "How nice it is for you to go home so early! I wish I can go home early!"

-Offers +5 Clue Dagger to Upto

It was a SAHM friend who commented yesterday on how easy my life was that nearly made me go over the edge ... But I'm not discriminating. I hate everyone, SAH or otherwise.

frozen as a threat to masculinity:

www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/04/fox-news-frozen-is-a-threat-to-masculinity-and-must-be-stopped.html

Here's an interesting article about arch MRA Paul Elam:

www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/how-mens-rights-leader-paul-elam-turned-being-a-deadbeat-dad#.teObeNaDY

What a hypocrite.

My poor poor son. How on earth will he grow into a good and balanced man with shit like Frozen telling him men are useless.

FFS. I am starting to wonder whether Fox news is some form of complex and long running April fool's joke that will one day be revealed. As I was saying when we were in Birmingham recently. It's a no go area as I non Muslim I tell you

Just making a brief excursion to the pub to thank everyone that came onto that thread and the webchat one. . And thanks to those that reminded me there are some posters that can't be reasoned with.

I wonder why so many people struggle to understand that other people have different experiences from them and why they often seem to be so threatened by that fact.

I read that about Frozen. I do wonder though why Brave doesn't freak them out more. Is it because Frozen was more of a box office success?

Probably.

Plus there aren't really any men in Brave. There's the King and the triplets. But the main baddies are female too.