The Bluestocking Womens Pub in an Adventure with Pirates!

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New thread. You know the deal - women's pub, men to the Staunch Ally next door.

Some of us are currently on the trail of an international seed smuggling ring, just for background information.

Not Harriet Walter, Fiona Shaw.

Yes that was noted in the Guardian’s review.

I tend to always stick to the same style of clothes. Jeans or combats, long sleeved top and fuck-off very chunky DM boots. Quite pirate like.

I remember the worm that turned. I’ve brought it up in pub chats with the overbearing types a few times over the years. Just to see them go pale at the thought.

You are right, @PastaAllaNorma - I was trying to be clever.

@MarieDeGournay

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5540522-lawyers-in-the-republic-of-ireland-for-sex-and-gender-policy-challenge

Marie, you wouldn't know any lawyers in Ireland for this thread, would you?

I saw that, Angle, thank you, and my heart leapt at the idea that somebody here intends bringing a challenge against our awful gender laws.

Unfortunately, I have no contacts in the legal world - I was abroad for 30 years and don't have many contacts with anything here any more! - but I may DM the poster to see if I can do a bit of 'gardening' or something useful..

We need to repatriate Helen Joyce, and both Naomi Cunningham and Maeve Halligan [Cambridge Soc.of Women] qualify to play for Ireland under the grandparent rule, and of course there's Arklow's own Róisín Murphy... a dream team!

I've seen that done. I don't believe it's physically possible, even though I've seen it done. It has to be some form of sorcery, surely....🤔
😁

I must say, I love Ireland, the little I have seen of it (Dublin and Dun Laoghaire and Howth, then Galway for a while). It's so beautiful, but I haven't been very often in the past 40 years because it just feels like spending a lot of money to go stay in a cottage just up the valley, or on The Mumbles. It just looks so much like Wales 😁I feel ridiculous that I haven't spent more time in Ireland.

But, I am so glad I live in the UK right now! I wouldn't even go back to the US unless forced to. But, I'm sorry about the state of women's rights in Ireland.

I'm currently on my MP's Facebook page (he's gay, out and very trans- supportive) trying to, as politely as I can, put the case for single sex spaces. Two annoying men arguing with me, almost 40 women have liked my submission.

But I need to step away.

I've mislaid my Highland cows.

That’s why you need a spare pair.

Found them.

Well done Puffling! 💪

Snazzy PJ's!

I can do this. There’s a great example in Flashdance where she does it.

Essentially a bra is a strip of material, so one it’s undone, it can be pulled through a sleeve.

I need large sleeves to do this.

I am also bilingual in American and English these days, though I still have to do a bit of internal translation sometimes before I speak and I'm still inclined to use Britishisms that I don't know are Britishisms until somebody looks puzzled.

Thank you Errol

Of course the menz are banging on about toilets, but as soon as I mention Katie Dolatowski my post appears not to show.

Still flying the TERF flag.

I was almost convinced by 'a bra is a strip of material'... but the straps! how do you account for the straps!
No, sorry, it's sorcery and that's that!😁

I’ve been arguing with my MP about that over Facebook too. She’s thoroughly annoying.

Phew! Sorry, Wole, I thought I might have totally been getting it wrong for years.

More power to your elbow, Kitty. 😘

Same here. It's a weird thing: I think that when I speak, I sound just like everyone else around here, but they think I sound like I just stepped off the boat! I just don't hear it myself anymore, I guess.

Seconded!

Yours too, @FuzzyPuffling. I’d emailed to thank her for not signing, too… obviously too early!

Do you mind if Kitty keeps the pair you left on the boat, Boily? She’s taken a fancy to them.