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January 04, 2005
Zoe Williams.
Zoe Williams manages (quelle surprise) to completely misunderstand the economics of nightclubs:
The interpolation of just one individual who isn't male will have a feminising (I'm steering clear of the word "civilising") influence so great that it's often cost-effective for nightclubs to let women in for nothing, since they pay for themselves by preventing breakages.
Errr, no dear. Men often go to night clubs because they’re hunting poontang. A nightclub with lots of women in will thus attract lots of men. Women get into nightclubs free because they are bait.
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Are women really this naive, or is it just Zoe? Every man with a pulse who sees that sign for the first time - "Women get in free" - instinctively knows immediately why the offer is made.
Posted by: Scott Campbell at Blithering Bunny | Jan 4, 2005 10:46:55 AM
It's not naivety, it's stupidity. Neither acribe to malice nor "naivety" what can be adequately assigned to stupidity.
But this does suggest an interesting question. Has any nightclub ever made a "Men Get In Free" offer? And in what circumstances would such an offer make sense?
Posted by: David B. Wildgoose | Jan 4, 2005 1:04:05 PM
The 'Free Men' offer would go down a storm at the local disco on Tuesdays otherwise known as 'Feel a Fossil' or 'Grab a Granny' night!
Have the Equal Opportunities lot been told?
Posted by: dave t | Jan 4, 2005 3:22:28 PM
Zoe, who ranks in my books as a "babe", may have been impared as the result of a visit to a club when she wrote this. She's not usually this clueless.
Posted by: John | Jan 4, 2005 3:49:18 PM
