Originally posted by Oso
Once again I come in way late on a thread and find that language and terminology has evolved beyond my reference points. In the early sixties in
Mexico City, "Ladies Bars" were a new innovation that had absolutely nothing to do with prostitution. Au Contraire, they were an alternative to the
traditional Mexican Cantina in which the only women allowed were indeed licensed prostitutes ( "decent" women were allowed to purchase a quick shot of
tequila through a pass-through around the corner, labeled as 'Dpto. de Mujeres" about the size of a closet with no chair.)
"Ladies Bars" in those days were an attempt to emulate American c-cktail lounges where no stigma was attached to female patrons, accompanied or not.
The message, at the time, was that this was a place that you could have a drink with your wife or girlfriend without a bunch of drunken machos
assuming she was a "working girl".
Obviously, the term has come to mean something else. |
