Women only venue

[snorton82]

16 hours ago, Tigerdragon said:

So? Do you often base what you like and what you do on what Ellie Goulding and Emma Watson wouldn't like?

Not at all, I just don't like feminist ****s

[fur_q]

 

13 minutes ago, snorton82 said:

Not at all, I just don't like feminist ****s

Actually it's about ethics in festival venues. 

 

[SwedgeAntilles]

22 minutes ago, snorton82 said:

Not at all, I just don't like feminist ****s

Worst.

[musky]

I wondered why this thread was growing so long. 

If evidence is needed that sexism and ignorance of the issues exist, this thread is it. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

10 minutes ago, fur_q said:

 

Actually it's about ethics in festival venues. 

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

Segregation based on race, religion or gender has always worked so well in the past. Maybe it should be called the Rosa Parks Tent.

[Dave F.]

19 hours ago, willsnewman said:

Ok, I'm all for equality. But it kind of irritates me a little when someone's idea for campaigning for equality involves inequality. Perhaps I'm wrong, and I'm open to discussion on the matter. But that is the first thing that jumps out at me.

This sums up my PoV.

I'm struggling to see its purpose. Will it really be a place women want to spend their Glastonbury time? Wouldn't it benefit their cause if they aired their beliefs to all instead of a subset?

NYC Downlow would be pretty boring if it were transvestites only.

19 hours ago, SwedgeAntilles said:

Equality is all well and good provided you're operating on a level playing field to begin with, unfortunately our society isn't

Two wrongs don't make a right.

[Dave F.]

19 hours ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:

It doesn't *need* to exist at the festival, however the festival is a great place for exchanging ideas and gaining motivation (see: Leftfield).  Therefore it exists.  That's how I'm taking it anyway.  I'll be having a wander in.

I've never quite understood how you can "exchange ideas" if you exclude 50% of your audience. Being 'women only' it's just preaching to the converted.

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, Dave F. said:

I've never quite understood how you can "exchange ideas" if you exclude 50% of your audience. Being 'women only' it's just preaching to the converted.

Women have lots of different ideas.

[scaryclaireyfairy]

4 minutes ago, Dave F. said:

I've never quite understood how you can "exchange ideas" if you exclude 50% of your audience. Being 'women only' it's just preaching to the converted.

If you assume that all women are 'converted' (whatever that is) or even consciously aware of forms of sexism.

[arcade fireman]

So this is where Radiohead are playing their secret set...

[Hugh Jass]

18 hours ago, Tigerdragon said:

I get the sentiment of the picture, but I never understood why they didn't just knock down that flimsy looking wooden fence together? Isn't equality about removing the structural barriers some people systematically face? That'd be a nice metaphor I think.

They shouldn't be stealing cricket anyway.

[Dave F.]

15 hours ago, Winslow Leach said:

The amount of Lads trying to barge their way into this venue for major bantz is going to be depressing, isn't it? 

Really? Are you sure they won't be watching bands with their mates & girlfriends, in mixed group like? (Or at least trying to find somewhere showing the football?)

[Winslow Leach]

8 minutes ago, Dave F. said:

Really? Are you sure they won't be watching bands with their mates & girlfriends, in mixed group like? (Or at least trying to find somewhere showing the football?)

#Notalllads

[Dave F.]

53 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Women have lots of different ideas.

True, but I don't think I'm getting your point.

[stuartbert two hats]

11 minutes ago, Dave F. said:

True, but I don't think I'm getting your point.

It's perfectly possible to have a useful exchange of ideas between women and no men.

[Winslow Leach]

I wonder how many of the men concerned about how feminist discourse will manage without them have ever been to a single one of the feminism talks or panel discussions in Left Field. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

People seem to be delighted when Shangri La goes 'middle fingers up' at traditional values and mores, just not when it's their own established principles and prejudices.

[Winslow Leach]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

People seem to be delighted when Shangri La goes 'middle fingers up' at traditional values and mores, just not when it's their own established principles and prejudices.

Isn't sticking it to The Man a bit sexist, hmmm? 

[CaledonianGonzo]

As a man it's my prerogative to tell these women that they don't actually want or need this thing that they've organised for themselves. 

[Winslow Leach]

1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

As a man it's my prerogative to tell these women that they don't actually want or need this thing that they've organised for themselves. 

PS. Can I come in plz? 

[CaledonianGonzo]

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

8 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

People seem to be delighted when Shangri La goes 'middle fingers up' at traditional values and mores, just not when it's their own established principles and prejudices.

Like I have said somewhere else, Im all for this to make a point, but, sometimes people complaining are not doing so out of malice. They are moaning as, they don't treat someone differently. Some of it is in my opinion, naivety. 

They don't do it, never think of doing it. Unfortunately that doesn't mean society has a level playing field

[Guest]

For the incredible shortsightedness prevalent in this thread

[FuzzyDunlop]

16 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

For the incredible shortsightedness prevalent in this thread

Ronnie Barker hated women?!