Feminist pub XIX: The Bluestocking meanders into May

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We're running at about six weeks per pub at the moment! So if you want chat with a feminist flavour, or with fellow feminists, or just want to admire our patriarchy blaster cannon and goat - welcome!

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My DC are good at maths too but especially DS2 says that in school it's boring. Because it's too easy and repetitive ...

This is the solution. It's quite good fun.

Inicked, yes do mention it. Her teacher may well be aware of the issue but not know how you'd like it dealing with. I think it's a relatively common problem with maths where there's more differentiation between kids' ability at the earliest stage than any other subject. She will hopefully find it better at secondary where they'll be in sets.

Thanks all. It finished at 9 this morning as only 2 people used the service I provide, which is to drive them between two fixed points. I went to see the head of HR who said I was welcome to come in the rest of the week but I thought it preferable to be able to stay in bed past 4am :o

Been to the agency and I have a day as a chauffeur on Friday with the possibility of a regular job doing that in the future.

I see my DGD at the weekend, and I have a superhero t-shirt for her...

for INicked, Doctor, and Lily (Lily's with a double brandy...)

INicked If your DD is really good at maths, could the problem be she's not being pushed hard enough? My DB had this exact problem at school. Even if classes are streamed maths is one of those subjects that can be very boring to sit in a lesson of if you just 'get' the concept in the first five minutes of the teacher explaining it, when most of the other students need the rest of the lesson for it to click.

Apropos of nothing, but I was out today and saw something that made me think of the pub here. I was in some ladies' loos, and there was one of those "wrap it and bin it, don't flush it" signs about sanitary items etc. It had an illustration of a person dropping these little squares into a toilet with a cross through it. Except, the person was the "male" stick figure you usually see on the men's loos. What I wondered was, was this the poster designer making a deliberate statement (women don't all have to wear skirts!), or was this a particularly egregious example of male-as-default, even in a context applying to women and women's sanitary items?!

Another thread has brought to my attention my ignorance - specifically that I'm not at all sure what a 'Radical feminist' is. Now, I could google it, but I don't know if I'd get a reliable answer or fall into some misinformational black hole. So, as I know some of you here do identify as 'radfem' and I trust you, could you give me a simple definition please? (or if there's a thread out there that explains shove me in it's direction)

Errol As I recall, there is some good discussion on this thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/2340512-Do-you-say-youre-a-feminist-radfem-in-RL-and-what-reactions-do-you-get

Thanks Seneca, I'll read that tomorrow- just stayed up later than I'd meant learning a bit about the trans issues about which I was also quite ignorant.

Hovis I've never noticed the "bin it" stick figure. Will look next time! But mooncup is the way to go. Not binning mine ...

LordCopper, I think it was a home-made job by this particular place (loos in a tourist attraction). I will keep an eye out in other loos out and about though, now.

Hum, I'm not sure that actually enlightened me much, there were lots of flavours of feminism mentioned but not really defined if you didn't already know what they meant.

Women's equality party now has 41 local branches!

Cheers Hovis i needed that!
Wow yonic thats great news. I wonder if there is a branch near me though somehow i doubt it. (wanders off to google)

Im back having googled. Not one in my town but one in nearest city. First meeting this month but typically on a day i have got some work!

Just poking my head in to say thanks for giving me a prod to apply for the job. I've got an interview tomorrow, and even if I.don't get it, it's given me motivation to keep looking and be more vocal about my skills and abilities.
Now I just have to not balls it up tomorrow!

Good luck with interview hoppy

Good luck hoppy!

Good luck hoppy!

The WEP did a fundraising the other day, I hope they continue developing for the next election.

Good luck hoppy.

Good luck hoppy!

Good luck hoppy - remember interviews take practise, so even if you fluff the first one it'll mean you do better on the next.

Good luck Hoppy

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Those squares were meant to little four leaf clovers.

Can I have a not so stealth proud moment of Dd?

Dd has been attending a Comic Club after school and has to create a comic of her own, she wants to rewrite a Disney story, at first she wanted to change a Disney song into a story, but she worried that people wouldn't notice that she was taking the piss. She's been watching a couple of movies and has chosen Beauty And The Beast/Princess and The Frog. She said she likes the message that it's what's on the inside that counts, but not that it in Disney, it's only the girls who kiss frogs, so, dd wants to write it backwards, flipping roles and also ending with normal people instead of beautiful princesses and handsome princes. No idea how it'll pan out, but her way of seeing things, and her confidence to point out things she sees as wrong makes me very proud of her.

Well done to your DD INicked, that sounds like a great project.

Interview was, meh. I bumbled my words a lot. I can never tell how these things went, guess now I just have to wait!

That is so clever of your DD INicked. She'll make a great satirist yet!

BTW, I hope this isn't too naughty, but is anyone coming to the End Austerity Now march next Saturday?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/feminist_activism/2401151-Are-you-going-on-the-End-Austerity-Now-march