Why so little concern about Ladies Night? | pandagon.net
I haven’t been reading Pandagon lately for some reason. Glad i went there today. Amanda Marcotte is my kind of female feminist. A tough talking, sh!t slinging, why bother with the crap, we got better things to do, polemicist. This piece was both laugh out loud funny and thought inspiring.
So one of those nutty misogynist douchebags who sues clubs for having “Ladies Nights”—-which said misogynist douchebags always paint as a feminist conspiracy to relieve them of their money—-lost his case on the grounds that he’s full of shit. Though, to be fair, the judge used more legalistic language to express this idea. Feminists chortled, because we don’t like men who carry on about how they’re victims of an oppressive matriarchy because they don’t currently have a submissive 18-year-old attached to their cocks while another brings them a beer.
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But Tracy’s argument that feminists should make a case out of ladies night in general also doesn’t compute. It’s not like feminists are for ladies night. Most feminists I’ve seen who’ve bothered to register an opinion on this point out truthfully that ladies night is about getting more women to the bar in order to get more men to the bar, and is just generally insulting to everyone. Why we’re not protesting in the streets over this fact is due to a couple of factors. One is that this entire thing is stupid. It is literally beneath our attention, even the attentions of feminists who have blogs to fill and enjoy doing pieces on some more light, pop culture stuff.