Bluestocking lock in!

[QuentinSummers]

Posted a whole thing on the last thread and it was locked!

Last thread here
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3062013-The-Bluestocking-is-open-for-business
Here's my post replying to Moth
Thats an interesting article moth. Best not on the board or MRAs would be all over it!
I was wondering today, hopefully, if the news about darts getting rid of the girls means the overton window is shifting and maybe p0rn will become less acceptable?
If not all this hooha about F1 girls and the presidents club is just tinkering on the edges.

Spring, this wasn't Twitter... It was a group of professionals and the blog was very relevant to us. To be honest, I expected more considered debate. Too optimistic.

Thank you
I have a support worker from Rape Crisis but she is on holiday just now so I won’t get to speak to her for a couple of weeks.

I was thinking about formally reporting, but all the stories in the press put me off (he has already done a hatchet job of me in court) and I cannot see how it will help sort things for DC. Aside from that fact that it is my truth and I am tired of carrying it around with me.

I think it was him trying to have a normal conversation about DC after several months of minimal discussion and that normality is not possible any more. But he is like Teflon, nothing sticks, so he won’t get that. Or he is trying to still upset me, I don’t know, I don’t want to even try to figure it out.

Thank you for letting me sit here and drink gin . No-one can fix the situation. Mostly I am okay and doing better.

Acorn well done for trying. It is scary how women are silenced.

Tomorrow is another day.

Keep fighting the good fight

katara

Sounds horrible. Your ex is a cockwomble. I hope you can disengage from his manipulative behaviour.

Someone has just started a thread under secondary education with a link to a gov. Petition on making the teaching of consent mandatory which I thought might be a good thing to post on the pub notice board

go.mumsnet.com/?xs=1&id=470X1554755&url=petition.parliament.uk/petitions/203019

I can't serve Ive cut my finger with a craft knife
I am an Easter bank holiday injury cliche.

Still drinking alone
Should go to bed really
Side note - before I joined MN I had no idea Easter was a big deal to anyone. I don't know anyone who goes in for egg hunts and gifts etc.

To the tune of "Ten cents a dance"

Three nights alone
Drinking and grazing
Gosh, how it creeps me out

Three nights alone
Drinking and whining
no one to hear me shout...

seven to midnight I tried them
loudly the silence it gooooooeeess
Silence is tearing my damaged finger eardrums
I will just tap my toes

Sometimes I think
I hear the barkeep
But it's a faint false hope

All that I need is a Quentin/Hairy/insert MNers as appropriate
Come on big girls
Three nights alone.....

Well hello. Lovely singing. How are you? I had a totally depressing conversation with a young trans man awaiting a mastectomy today . I just wanted to give them a hug and tell them they are beautiful as they are.

I will join you, but maybe a white wine instead of a gin.

I read the front page headline of the Times that the policy are stopping the policy of believing victims (I presume of sexual assault). I could not face reading the article, it would make me despair. It must take such enormous courage to report.

The Met never believed anyone in practice as far as I could tell, they just used to virtue-signal regardless. I can't see how their new attitude could possibly be worse than their old one

But we're making our voices heard Katara, little by little

Quentin

Hey Spring, that you under the table? Hair of the dog?

thanks Quentin
my finger still hurts

Katara - you think there's any gin left after y'all left me here on my tod?

(don't worry, I'm not this mad in real life )

I haven't seen the Times thing. It isn't really a surprise to hear it though. I would imagine that it's been the policy unofficially and now they are declaring it

cross post with Tallulah

oh the temptation to post on That Other Thread saying "hey, I'm literally singing the blues in the bar right now"

I have an unopened bottle of Edinburgh Gin at the back of a cupboard. There is always gin

Tallulah, thank you

Hey everyone can I venture in?? I've been on the feminist board for eight years but haven't come into the pub...I think I have internally accepted the trope that feminists are boring (as a woman I can see it's me that is boring, obviously) so have stayed away in case I bore you all!!!

Ooh...gin with a dash of Prosecco for me, please!!🤣👍

@LastGirlOnTheLeft

Welcome along! Ive never tried gin and Prosecco.....

Funnily enough, I have an unopened bottle of Prosecco too. Not a word of a lie. DS won it at the school Tombola.

Happy to share! I don’t drink much in RL as mostly looking after DC.

Thanks Spring (I just replied to you on another thread...funnily enough about being brave when here I am sheepishly tiptoeing into a pub🤣🤣🤣)

Anyways yes it's yum....my mate always tells me to add elderflower but I think it makes it too sweet! Gin and prosecco are scrummy together!!

God Quentin. It's just so sad. Poor poor girl

Kat that would last two seconds in my house!!😂

Evening all. I mostly lurk and occasionally post but dont usually come in to the pub. Tonight though im so fed up wirh the awful weather and the seemingly endless battles women have, a cosy friendly pub and a large brandy seemed tempting.

Hey Freshly...I've just come in myself and am feeling a little teeny bit like I've just walked into The Slaughtered Lamb but I'm getting there!! My round....what are you having???

The school Tombola was at last year’s summer fair, thinking on it. Will it have gone off? The gin was a Christmas present.

I wonder why on one hand, we have women set up to be not believed in sexual abuse and rape cases, and on the other, women not wanting to be female so badly, they wish to cut off healthy body parts. And who does the surgery? Is it just another operation to them?

Good night anyway 💤