Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Rarely do I feel compelled to contribute to a non-car related thread on this website but on this one I cannot restrain myself. I have read the FT article, watched Channel 4 News, read every comment on this thread, and have to say how completely and utterly dejected I feel, how disappointed I am........not to have been on the guest list! What a cracking night out! Chaps having a great time together with waitresses consenting to and paid to titilate them and even willing (not forced) to dress for the occasion - and all for a good cause! What's not to like?!
All this ridiculous high and mighty postulating about it being sad, sick etc is utter nonsense. Objectification? Of course but so what? Provided everything is within the bounds of the law who's complaining? What's wrong with men having a night out together or having a 'Men Only' club? For that matter what's wrong with women having a night out together? I wouldn't stop them. Would you? Why don't women form their own 'Women Only' clubs? What's stopping them? Why is there a Women's Hour' but no 'Mens Hour'? Would we be allowed to have one? Do men complain about hen nights and the strip clubs that women go to?
No I wouldn't want my daughters to participate in a 'President's Night' but I'd defend their right as adults to choose to do so.
Can any one of those claiming such a night to be offensive truly say that they themselves have never enjoyed similar antics themselves at say a friend's or even their own stag night? Or did they walk out in disgust? Perhaps there will soon be rules governing stag nights which will see us chaps sitting down to tiddlywinks with a glass of fruit juice whilst the girls are of course permitted to get pissed up and totter off to a male strip/dance show.
I'm proud to stand up for what I believe to be the silent majority and say 'Get a grip!' to all those who jump on any and every politically correct bandwagon they can run after. What a load of tosh.
