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niyad

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11. For many years, I made a point of sitting at the bar, and making friends

Reply to Iris (Reply #5)

Sat Oct 26, 2024, 01:20 AM

Oct 2024

with the bartenders, wherever I was, whether I was travelling on business, or just out with my cameras. Between the book I was always reading, and the bartenders watching out for me, I seldom had a problem. Believe me, I know how very lucky I was not to experience what so many other women did, and still do, sad to say, in such venues.

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As rare "business woman" I was asked to leave a hotel bar (waiting for my coworkers) in 1970. It was humiliating. [View all] SharonAnn Oct 2024 OP

Thanks for putting cracks in that glass ceiling Coexist Oct 2024 #1

God! The humiliation you must have felt breaks my heart. Aristus Oct 2024 #2

Forgot the bad old days. I had to call cabs for "gentlemen" and escort them out of one of the best places in town ... marble falls Oct 2024 #3

We're never going back. Elect Harris. Thank you for sharing a great reason to never go back. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2024 #4

Thank you! I make a point to sit at the bar when I am waiting for someone ever dince Iris Oct 2024 #5

For many years, I made a point of sitting at the bar, and making friends niyad Oct 2024 #11

I had that happen also. Guess I thought I was "equal". SharonAnn Oct 2024 #13

That was typical Figarosmom Oct 2024 #6

Hell, its happening now. DiverDave Oct 2024 #8

Yeah i guess Figarosmom Oct 2024 #9

Eight years after that NJCher Oct 2024 #7

A lot of humiliation was done back then in the name of protecting us Warpy Oct 2024 #10

No paywall... littlemissmartypants Oct 2024 #12

Yes and I was once not allowed to eat in a restaurant as an sinkingfeeling Oct 2024 #14

The first time I saw anything like you describe was in Vancouver, BC in 1970. A friend and I went to a pub Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2024 #15

A common occurrence in the 70s. MineralMan Oct 2024 #16