Ladyfest Table Quiz: Air Guitar for Your Brain. (1 Viewer)

[jane]

no, i would have got that.

madwoman in the annex

Yes, you probably would have, but most likely because that is your specialist subject. And again, 'women' is not a subject.

When people go to table quizzes that have too many sport questions, or too many politics ones, they just generally say, "Oh well, I don't know sport/politics, etc," and that's explanation enough. You might write funny answers on your sheets, but you wouldn't get nasty about it. Just because the questions related to the majority of the population, there's some seriously unwarranted nastiness.

If it's about men and you don't know it, you assume that it's your fault for not knowing. If it's about women and you don't know it, then not only is it not worth knowing, but it's also unreasonable for someone to think you might like to.

 

[Ex-User (250)]

i guess this is part of the learning process... i thought it was higher that 52%, it certainly seems like that sometimes. in my himble opunion, women should run the world and make important decisions about resources and the environment. men should be left to waste their lives persuing futile means of expressing themselves and fighting amongst eachother as to which forms of expression are more valid than others.

So, wait, now 'women' is a specialist subject? We happen to compose 52 percent of the population, you know. Do you understand this? Anthropology is a subject. Women are most of the world. They are not comparable.

We are involved in more than one area of society, and the questions reflected this. Well, I nearly put in a Margaret Mead question; maybe you wouldn't have given out about that. Or a Ruth Benedict one. But I thought those were too hard.

Why so hostile just because you didn't know the answers? Lots of people didn't do brilliantly, but still had a good time.

 

[jane]

Hey Liadain brought it up, not me. oh, i still had a good time i just think that the questions were ridiculous. seriously, whipped ice-cream = modern history?

I'm not going to apologise for the questions. They were interesting.

And you were the one who brought up 'women' as a specialist subject.

 

[Lili Marlene]

look, i brought some people to it telling them all how ladyfest is a great idea and worth supporting and everything but by the end of the night they pretty much vowed never to go to another event because it was all too inclusive (and two of them were girls). I know ladyfest is a good thing but all my friends felt was alienated so i dunno, maybe if the questions had been a bit more general......

 

[Ex-User (250)]

i hate table quizes. my idea of hell is a sports table quiz.

 

[jane]

look, i brought some people to it telling them all how ladyfest is a great idea and worth supporting and everything but by the end of the night they pretty much vowed never to go to another event because it was all too inclusive (and two of them were girls). I know ladyfest is a good thing but all my friends felt was alienated so i dunno, maybe if the questions had been a bit more general......

By general, do you mean about men?

Look, if they were totally turned off the entire concept of Ladyfest because, at a QUIZ NIGHT, people were rewarded for knowing THE ANSWERS, then that's not my problem.

Your attitude is not surprsing, though: 'Well, honey, here was your first mistake. If you'd only done it the way I would have done it...'

This is one of the reasons that women are hesitant to get involved in things: people are so quick to fault-find, more so than at gentlemanly events.

This conversation is over. I have better things to do. You can pick at your hostile scab on your own.

 

[Catwoman]

look, i brought some people to it telling them all how ladyfest is a great idea and worth supporting and everything but by the end of the night they pretty much vowed never to go to another event because it was all too inclusive (and two of them were girls). I know ladyfest is a good thing but all my friends felt was alienated so i dunno, maybe if the questions had been a bit more general......

Alienated? Ah now. It's only a quiz. I've been to a few table quizzes and I'd say 70-80% of the questions have a male gender bias. Does that make me feel 'alienated'? No. The questions were just a bit tougher than your average pub trivia, I found it quite refreshing. And no, I don't have a Women's Studies degree.

 

[Lili Marlene]

If all the questions had been about Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe i would have been equally pissed off.

I just think it was too hard ok? i never called you honey, im not trying to devalue women, im not trying to devalue ladyfest but if that's all that you can hear then that's your own problem.

i guess i just misinterpreted 'there will be something for everybody'

 

[oh shit]

i might organise a pub quiz, im saving for a new guitar set up.

'how many SGs does angus young own?'

'how many valves in the JTM 45?'

'does the 59' bassman use a valve or solid state rectifier?'

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quiz sounded interesting. if i went to a ladyfest pubquiz i'd expect some degree of bias in the questions. in a good way.

 

[Ed]

girls are yucky

 

[sarah]

I didn't really think that the questions were alienating to men, I just thought
that they were incredibly hard, by the third round I had given up thinking that I would be raging for not having known the answer.
Don't think the dispute about the questions has anything to do with gender issues
they were very literature orientated and quite obscure at times.
But a lot of the people enjoyed it for just that reason, me personally
never having been known for my fact retaining qualities, feel dumb at most
table quizzes.
The arguments over the questions seem way too heated when you take
into consideration that it was only a fun(d)raiser quiz.

 

[sarah]

girls are yucky

Boys are smelly

 

[Ed]

Why do girls wear perfume??

BECAUSE THEY STINK!!!!!!!

ahahahahahaahahahahah

 

[egg_]

Why do girls wear perfume??

BECAUSE THEY STINK!!!!!!!

I love the smell off unperfumed and undeodoranted and not-too-recently washed girls
MMmmmmmm

 

[jane]

I love the smell off unperfumed and undeodoranted and not-too-recently washed girls
MMmmmmmm

I'll bottle some and send it to you.

Pete, any way you can make it so you can PM stink?

'You have a new PMBO from Jane. Open this message in a new window?'

 

[sarah]

We had a girl like that in our class, she was known, not too nicely,
as smelly gowl.

 

[billygannon]

I love the smell off unperfumed and undeodoranted and not-too-recently washed girls
MMmmmmmm

Ah! The old lumberjack look. You can't beat it!

 

[jane]

Ah! The old lumberjack look. You can't beat it!

Actually, I'm sporting more of a screeching-at-the-kids-from-the-doorway-of-the-trailer look.

Squalor-chic, I like to call it.

 

[oh shit]

I love the smell off unperfumed and undeodoranted and not-too-recently washed girls
MMmmmmmm

smells like... victory

 

[Ex-User (250)]

smells like... victory

ha ha ha ha ha ha, i hope you meant that in the way i would have. i commend you for that post!