Good news. The ladies only classes have stopped at my leisure centre.

Why?

Hi Absent

I think it would be more difficult to make a class women only if there are men in it who go on a regular basis.
If no men attend a class if the council decides it wants some women only classes again it could probably make one of those classes women only on the basis that nobody would be affected.
That said there could always be a man intending to join the next week.

Frank

OOOer Frank, heaven help us if women could ever be alone together without a man to make sure they were not getting up to anything subversive!!

Sounds as though Frank is a bit too anxious not to let any women only classes on a point of principle

Hi HildaW

Does it matter about having a woman being alone together?.
Thinking back most of the offices I worked in had mainly female staff. I did work in an office for about a year where there were about 20 men and 1 woman at the start but there were 3 women at the end of the year.
Women were welcome to work there but at the time very few applied.
About a year ago I heard there were 7 women and 14 men working in that office.
I have mainly been in a female environment as I has my wife and 2 daughters and I have now got 3 granddaughters.
I have got another grandchild due in March and I will not complain if it is another girl.

Frank

So does that (your post of Thu 31-Jan-13 20:55:33) mean that you are on a guerrilla project to infiltrate as many women-only courses as you can Frank ? Watch out, your motives could be misinterpreted .....

Or just being a spoilsport?

Feeel free to join our village pub knitting group - all ladies, known colloquially as Stitch 'n Bitch - you clearly enjoy airing your somewhat reactionary ohauvinistic unconventional views.......

I have visions of Frank and his pals (real or imaginary) dressing up Ninja style to infilltrate leisure centres up and down the country. His next step will be to try the local WIs! Then as soon as a sees three or more women gossiping at a bus stop he'll be in there to add his 'manly' views! I shall be looking over my shoulder from now on!!

He only lives in Brum Hilda not that far from you really

Perhaps it's All Saints he's resident at? Only next door to Winson Green?

Mind you, since our rector joined the Mothers Union to be followed by two other men

Not Elton John and David Furnish ???

No Jeni he said it is an expensive part of Brum, must be Edgbaaaaaaaaaaston

Hi HildaW

There are not enough men at the Centre I go to to infilltrate leisure centres up and down the country but I can remember 5 in London at the time I was there.

Frank

Ah! But which side of the Hagley road.?

Def B15, B16 is so non-u

gracesmum no! Two of the most boring old farts basses in the choir!

Augustus rd perhaps?

Maybe, although I heard there is a rather nice gatehouse at the Botanical Gardens, actually within walking distance of Simpsons! One must have somewhere 'expensive' to eat?

See prison thread

Gillott Road....

Isn't Gillot Road famous for a certain type of 'lady'?

It was when I had a bedsit there .

I had one in School rd Mosely.