In Birmingham, last Sunday (28/09/08), the Birmingham Fems protested the Tory conference because they were giving out coupons to go to the Rocket lap dancing club. An event I wished I had been able to attend, but as it was I was ill and I could not make it. So I supported them from my bed and wishing them the best of luck. To be honest I had been worried because of the size of their group and the lack of publicity of the protest, that not many would show up and in turn ridicule them. When it was documented in the Birmingham Post I was extremely happy for them. The entry had comments such as these:
Currently, licences for lapdancing clubs last 10 years, leaving the women working there exposed to exploitation, spokeswoman Clare Lovell said.
“We’re not puritans here at all,” she said. “But the issue at the moment is that there isn’t any way for local authorities to check the girls here are being treated properly.
“I use the word ‘girls’ deliberately because most of those working in the industry are in their teens.”
The group wants to reclassify lapdancing clubs as officially part of the sex industry.
Delegates at the conference have been given tickets giving them a discount on entry to the Rocket Club, on Broad Street, during the conference.
This wasn’t attacking the lapdance club that was sponsoring the Tories (why am I not surprised this is the only place that would sponsor them?), it was the fact that it is the deliberate objectification of women and the Tories are promoting it. Everyone seemed to get this idea. Except, however, for some old bag who thought it was her mission to tell the world (or at least the Birmingham Mail, because lets face it she’s obviously not wanted anywhere else.) that what these women were stupid in believing women should be treated as people and not objects. Maureen Messent (a.k.a The old bag) writes this in her online article:
we are left with that laughable regiment of tin-drawered women who protested at conference delegates being offered £10-off vouchers at the Rocket lap-dancing club.
I’ve got to admit when I read her insults to the group I did say some profanities, such as “cheeky bitch”, “crazed cow” and so on, there were quite a lot, after all these people are my friends. But what angered me more was her glamorizing the the lapdancing trade:
They were shrill. He was gentlemanly. They tried to paint those luscious dancers as down-trodden and exploited. Mr Sartori pointed out that, far from being exploited, his dancers were members of the acting union, Equity.
The group weren’t saying that Mr Sartori’s dancers (god, I feel sick just writing that) were ‘down-trodden and exploited’ they were saying that there are women in the profession that were and for the Tories to be advertising it suggested there was nothing wrong with treating women like crap. Would she want her daughter to be a lapdancer? would she not worry about her daughter if she were to enter that line of work? These questions are of course hypothetical, in my opinion I doubt the old bag could ever get a boyfriend let alone a child. But hey, science has advanced! And lets face it some guys are desperate. Yes that may be low but she’s angered me so she’ll just have to deal with it. I suppose the two of us do have something in common, one thing nothing more… I hope! We like to ridicule our opponents.
I trust that their spokesman, Ms Clare Lovell, isn’t under the impression she represents the majority of West Midland women.
Back to your cauldron, Clare.
The witch??
Ah so the bag wants to do a personal attack? Well guess what? I’m so much better at it then you. What I can’t get my head round is how she calls Clare a witch when she puts a photo like the one here (left) next to it. And she puts her hand under her chin, personally it looks like shes trying to prop up her third and fourth chin for the camera but thats just me. That was a bit mean, I will admit, but after what she said about my friend I can’t say I feel all that sorry. If you would like to read the rest her dribble please click here. I really wanted to email this woman, but alas, I could not find any contact details on her ‘columnist’s’ page. So I put it all here, well I would have anyway but if I would have had that I would have waited for her response. I might have been a bit nicer, but hey, I guess we’ll never know. In the mean time she has graduated to a place on the Enemies against women page. It saddens me to put women on there but if you do the crime you need do the time. Just between you and me, I don’t see here coming off for good behavior. Kind of makes me want to sic Object on her ass.
