Ah, the wonderful world of cell phones. It's like you get treated to the intimate personal details of all the random people you never wanted to know more about. Is this sounding misanthropic, yet?
But it got me thinking all the way home. What struck me is that the lady's tone was as if this was the greatest thing that ever happened to her. Like she never had heard of ladies' night at the club. Imagine the eyes-wide, glassy look of the child on Xmas.
And while I fully admit my own naifishness and ignorance when it comes to the club-scene (extended digression: my understanding is that it is generally where people sometimes go to get their "freak on" and while I understand the basic nature of this term, I assuredly am oblivious to its full nuance. To extend the digression - the same goes for the related concept of the "booty call"), it seems pretty obvious to me that the object of said free drinks is not the pleasure of the ladies that imbibe said drinks.
And thus the club becomes, as far as I can tell, an object lesson in sexual exploitation.
After all, there is a reason that ladies get free drinks and gentlemen do not. The club is a business and clearly, if the ladies are getting free drinks, the club is only profiting on male-money. Why are the men there, spending money? One suspects that it is due to the ladies that are there. Why are men looking to meet (drunk) women? I would venture to say that it isn't for intellectually stimulating conversation about dialectical materialism over a cup of steaming coffee, with a warm handshake at the end. No - fearless reader - I'm guessing the guys are looking to have sex. As for the ladies . . . are they looking to score? Well, if so, why does it take "free drinks" to get them in the door?
My interpretation is that, basically, the club hopes that enough ladies will get so hammered they will end up waking up in the morning with regrets. That is what the alcohol is for, and what keeps the men coming back. Which makes this free drinks night just on this side of the line from rape.
Just something to think about on this lovely fall Friday afternoon.
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