Women only venue

[CaledonianGonzo]

1 minute ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

Ronnie Barker hated women?!

Maybe understandable in his case

[Winslow Leach]

22 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

For the incredible shortsightedness prevalent in this thread

Is Joe 90 an MRA? Say it ain't so. 

[Guest]

HO HO HO, some splendid pop culture references there chaps. I understood them both without Googling who they were, nobody can ever prove otherwise (Branson better not fucking dob me in here).

Edited June 4, 2016 by GETOFFAMYLAWN

[Mich1268]

On 03/06/2016 at 3:21 PM, Tranquility of Solitude said:

I'd be mildly disappointed if Philippa's Van was a male dominated preserve.

I have a funny feeling it might be

[Guest]

Just now, Scruffylovemonster said:

You didn't know who Ronnie barker was?

If you'd have said "The Ronnie from The 2 Ronnies who wasn't Ronnie Barker" I would have.

[dentalplan]

22 hours ago, somecoolusername said:

I find it interesting that several people have said "sexism doesn't exist at Glastonbury" (and variations of this). Yes it does. It exists everywhere. It would be lovely if there were some sexism-free zone we could all go to for 5 days, but no such place exists. No, not even at Glastonbury.

Glastonbury has always had a strong political element. This is part of that lineage. Whether the 'venue' is good or bad we don't know yet. I don't know what it's going to look like. But it's raising an issue. It's not supposed to be Glastonbury's number 1 party venue that men have to miss out on. It's trying to raise an important issue. And I think we have to wait and see if it does a good job of it.

I don't think that was said by anyone in this thread at all, or even variations. My post on the first page probably comes closest but that's not what I meant - what I did mean was that I didn't think it was so fierce that safe spaces were needed in Shangri La but I got the complete wrong end of the stick about what the thing was initially.

I agree with your post though; it does remain to be seen whether it's a success or does end up sending a strong message.

But still, it's a bit shit that this thread didn't really go far into explaining and educating people why it might be a good thing and just descended into condemning and patronising people for opinions they don't have and things they never said.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

But he was Ronnie barker. 

Aww, I meant Ronnie Corbitt, sorry scruff. Sorry anybody else who was affected by that error.

[Guest]

Re: "It'd be sexist to have a men-only area", if there were multiple scheduled discussions about taboos surrounding men's health, and one of them was marked as a safe space for men only, nobody would be kicking off.

[Guest]

Remember in school when people fromt the council came in and all the boys were sent into one room to be told about boners and pubes, and all the girls were sent into the other room to be told about periods and pubes? That wasn't sexist either. You know how there's men's toilets and women's toilets? That's not sexist either.

[Cooter]

15 minutes ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Remember in school when people fromt the council came in and all the boys were sent into one room to be told about boners and pubes, and all the girls were sent into the other room to be told about periods and pubes? That wasn't sexist either. You know how there's men's toilets and women's toilets? That's not sexist either.

No I don't remember that. Where did you go to school?

[Spindles]

People from the council?  Show me on the doll...

[Guest]

When you're about 10, they come in and they're like "alright lads, you've got puberty coming up, this video will explain what that's going to be like, and where babies come from also". The heavily religious kids' parents don't sign the form, so they go and sit in the lower year's classroom and do a worksheet to stop them going to hell, presumably.

That's how it went down at my school anyway. Our teacher, Fred The Weatherman, said it was all perfectly normal and there was no need to tell anybody about it ever.

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

Our teacher, Fred The Weatherman, said it was all perfectly normal and there was no need to tell anybody about it ever.

you just broke the first law of Man Club

[FuzzyDunlop]

19 minutes ago, Spindles said:

People from the council?  Show me on the doll...

I went to school in Rochdale. My mp when I was a young kid was Cyril Smith.......

 

[shuttlep]

This grinds my gears. I can't see it as true 

[Winslow Leach]

4 hours ago, dentalplan said:

 

But still, it's a bit shit that this thread didn't really go far into explaining and educating people why it might be a good thing and just descended into condemning and patronising people for opinions they don't have and things they never said.

There were several pages of explaining and educating, if after that some people are still going out of their way to not get it I feel patronisation is fair game.

[CaledonianGonzo]

That workshop needs to be coeducational.

[russycarps]

You think men go into the longdrops and squat for a piss? That seems like very unlikely behaviour.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Given some of the stuff I've seen on the seats I'm assuming that people don't just use them for having a slash.

[clarkete]

17 minutes ago, russycarps said:

You think men go into the longdrops and squat for a piss? That seems like very unlikely behaviour.

They're not necessarily mutually exclusive, sometimes a visit for a 2 results in a 1 as well.

Hope that helps  

[russycarps]

30 minutes ago, clarkete said:

They're not necessarily mutually exclusive, sometimes a visit for a 2 results in a 1 as well.

Hope that helps  

Right, so the tiny amount of men who squat to shit accounts for perhaps 0.1% of the pissy seat problem.

It's a relatively recent phenomenon and the culprits are well known.

[musky]

17 minutes ago, russycarps said:

Right, so the tiny amount of men who squat to shit accounts for perhaps 0.1% of the pissy seat problem.

It's a relatively recent phenomenon and the culprits are well known.

I'm just curious to know how you come to those figures Russy. Something we should know?

[russycarps]

38 minutes ago, musky said:

I'm just curious to know how you come to those figures Russy. Something we should know?

I've monitored the situation closely. Think long drop version of this..

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/deep-inside-the-chain-pub-piss-dungeon

 

[SwedgeAntilles]

16 hours ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

When you're about 10, they come in and they're like "alright lads, you've got puberty coming up, this video will explain what that's going to be like, and where babies come from also". The heavily religious kids' parents don't sign the form, so they go and sit in the lower year's classroom and do a worksheet to stop them going to hell, presumably.

That's how it went down at my school anyway. Our teacher, Fred The Weatherman, said it was all perfectly normal and there was no need to tell anybody about it ever.

I went to Catholic school and can confirm we didn't see any of these type of shenanigans.

We just got told we were going to hell for masterbating. 

[musky]

37 minutes ago, russycarps said:

I've monitored the situation closely. Think long drop version of this..

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/deep-inside-the-chain-pub-piss-dungeon