Bar is hosting a night where woman receive a 77% discount, based on the debunked "77 cents" wage gap. "Let's level the playing field, even if it is just for one night. Women deserve better."

Stephen_Morgan · 2015-06-30T12:20:42+00:00

Surely that would be a 23% discount.

booszhius · 2015-06-30T12:49:20+00:00

Regarding the bar and club scene, why is this necessary for women? Don't they already get "Ladies' Nights" with discounts, no cover, et cetera?

I've never gotten a discount anywhere simply because I'm a guy....unless I haven't fully inventoried my "privileges".

R50cent · 2015-06-30T16:17:05+00:00

I had no idea women were buying their own drinks now.

Raunien · 2015-06-30T13:02:28+00:00

AKA "we're too cheap to host a normal ladies-drink-free night" so let's try a gimmick

Swiggy · 2015-06-30T13:16:50+00:00

The sub set demographic of women who show up for this promotion probably earn more than men. But since they insists on using the 77% figure, facts don't matter to them anyway.

michaeladams94 · 2015-06-30T13:58:54+00:00

Yeah this is a great idea because the societal stigma about women in bars is totally that they are being taken advantage of due to the gender wage gap, making it more difficult for them to pay, not that they don't fucking pay for drinks in the first place. /s

Tmomp · 2015-06-30T18:16:02+00:00

Want equality?

How about

Make women stand in line to get in while you let guys in
Charge women more entrance fee
Let men in the VIP area preferentially
Restrict women from the VIP room preferentially
Have special nights where men don't pay
Give the female staff heavier labor
Give male staff lighter labor
Make the bouncers who handle potentially violent guests female

zodiacecks · 2015-06-30T14:22:13+00:00

In some states, this is illegal.

2015-06-30T15:12:36+00:00

Step 1: 23% discount.

Step 2: about 200% average customer count.

Step 3: about 200% tips

Yeah. This guys a geneous. Anyone who thinks this is about "raising awareness" or anything other than getting their money is just getting played.

theJigmeister · 2015-06-30T16:50:52+00:00

I think they meant to say "Women deserve better than men."

Targren · 2015-06-30T18:18:47+00:00

I dont understand how it is legal to charge a different amount for the same thing to different people.

Oh you have a penis and want a shot? $5 please! Oh you have a vagina and want a shot? $4 please!

This doesn't make any fucking sense.

Kuato2012 · 2015-06-30T19:32:33+00:00

Ladies' night but repackaged with a shiny bow of moral superiority for the dim witted. The main difference being: would you really want to meet any of the women this particular night attracts?

Imnotmrabut · 2015-06-30T13:25:43+00:00

We need a Woozle Cocktail to serve up!

electricalnoise · 2015-06-30T14:55:02+00:00

Yup. Gimmick.

DrDoSoLittle · 2015-06-30T14:21:33+00:00

Woooo, get blackout drunk! That'll show people you're empowered!

such-a-mensch · 2015-06-30T18:11:42+00:00

I was at a bar a few years ago running one of those stupid ladies night specials where high balls were $0.10 for a girl but regular price for a guy.

I spent the night hitting on girls getting them to buy me drinks for a dime. After more than a handful of trips to the bar, one of the bartenders noticed and refused to give the girl either drink haha.

I left that night with as much money as I walked in with and a few phone numbers. I'm all in favor of promotions like this, we just need to learn to use them to our advantage.

cuteman · 2015-06-30T18:57:24+00:00

1) Ladies nights are usually free

2) When they're not a significant number of women expect men to buy their drinks

3) 23% discount isn't significant

4) Bartenders complain about having to calculate an 23% discount and it quickly fails.

Raudskeggr · 2015-06-30T22:14:33+00:00

Marketing once again exploiting political bullshit. Whatever.

2015-06-30T22:39:34+00:00

But I don't work. I'm a student, I have a student loan. Which is the same as female students get. But I have to pay more for my beer because I have a penis? In the name of gender equality? I don't understand.

govt_took_my_baby · 2015-06-30T15:49:33+00:00

What difference would it make? It's not like women are buying 50% of the drinks anyway

megapoopfart · 2015-06-30T19:09:47+00:00

That also mean that men will have an equal chance at getting laid?

MJZMan · 2015-06-30T19:26:03+00:00

Ladies Night used to mean free drinks. Inflation, I guess.

RedditorJemi · 2015-06-30T23:34:45+00:00

And in all likelihood the female bartenders at this shitty bar make twice the tips of their male counterparts.

Folsomdsf · 2015-06-30T23:41:46+00:00

seriously, women buy drinks at bars? They already are the controlling force at a bar. You get women to go to the bar because men will follow and they spend money. This is how you run a bar 101.

Trail_of_Jeers · 2015-07-01T01:55:35+00:00

Why do they need a discount? It's not like they pay for all their drinks, and some don't pay for a single one.

2015-07-01T02:16:06+00:00

Its not like women are even buying drinks.

linkmebro · 2015-07-01T05:57:13+00:00

This is more about getting chicks in a bar than womens rights

Trail_of_Jeers · 2015-07-01T06:29:46+00:00

Bars know that if you bring in women, men will follow. They aren't dumb.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2015-07-01T12:43:55+00:00

People far too often confuse leveling the playing field with fixing the score at the end of the game.

Il128 · 2015-07-01T13:50:55+00:00

This discount is stupid because attractive women never buy drinks anyway.

scarecrow569_ · 2015-07-01T18:26:01+00:00

With the crowd that would attract I can see the line out of the local police station at 10am the next day now. Shoes in hand with such conviction to take back the night.

nrjk · 2015-07-02T11:14:31+00:00

Is the name of the bar The White Night?

Jesus_marley · 2015-06-30T14:48:17+00:00

I have no problem with this as long as they receive a commensurate amount of alcohol to go along with the price.

AtomicBLB · 2015-06-30T13:52:04+00:00

Sad to see a place throwing money away on a lie.

A_DERPING_ULTRALISK · 2015-06-30T15:57:17+00:00

This sounds like the setup to a joke.

So Caitlyn Jenner walks in to a bar...

bsutansalt · 2015-06-30T18:02:03+00:00

Hey babe, lets go out tonight. You're buying :)

Jazzeki · 2015-06-30T18:16:56+00:00

i'd ask them why they don't just pay the women that works for them what they pay the men that works for them.

baskandpurr · 2015-06-30T19:13:34+00:00

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Lipophobicity · 2015-06-30T21:06:03+00:00

"Prospect Heights’ “Doctor Who”-themed bar and live music space, the Way Station, is charging every woman 77 percent the cost of every drink."

It's almost as if a Doctor Who themed bar was having trouble luring in women.

To be clear I'm not putting the show down at all, I just don't think it attracts many women

2015-06-30T22:11:28+00:00

sight...

NUMBERS2357 · 2015-07-01T00:11:00+00:00

Not that I'd go to such a bar, not just for gender stuff but for their math making no sense. But if I was there with a group, I'd get one of the girls we were with to buy me a drink, and pay her back anyway.

satisfyinghump · 2015-07-01T06:27:51+00:00

The comments posted in response to the article are awesome. I'm remembering comments left from a similar article a few years back, and they weren't as opposing to the article as these are.

More and more people are educating themselves, and finding out that the wage gap is a myth, thats spouted by politicians trying to get the female vote, and random SJW's on college campuses, maybe even a few HR managers.

Hopefully it will die out, I just hope it doesn't cause too much damage that will need to be fixed.

2015-07-02T04:01:43+00:00

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redditorriot · 2015-06-30T14:46:49+00:00

Cool, that means I'm only contributing to 77% of rounds.

chevelle216 · 2015-06-30T20:24:09+00:00

When was the wage gap debunked?

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