A video has resurfaced on social media showing how men treated women drinking in bars back in the 1970s.
Per Indy100, the clip stems from archival footage shared on YouTube by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), of a news segment from the current affairs program This Day Tonight, dating back to 1974.
The video shows a female news anchor's talking-heads investigation into how Australian men - drinkers in particular - responded when women were first allowed to drink alongside them in the country's bars.
Until the Liquor Act was changed in Australia's parliament, the law stipulated that men and women were segregated when imbibing in public houses.
Take a look at the video here:This meant that women were confined to the ladies' lounge or the beer garden of pubs in the country, whereas men were the only people permitted to consume alcohol in the bar area itself.
At the time the segment was filmed, Australian men clearly had mixed feelings about the presence of women in their until-then male-exclusive watering holes.
For example, when questioned on the subject, one interviewee states: "I think, myself, that the place for women is the saloon bar or the lounge."
When pressed to explain his reasoning, he elaborated: "If I want to talk or swear or something like that and a woman is standing behind me, you can't, can you?"
Interviewing another patron, the journalist is then made uncomfortable when her subject wraps her arm around her shoulder and explains that men feel more comfortable in segregated bars because it means that they can use profanity without fear of judgment.
Things got far less uncomfortable for the anchor when the same man started to touch the back of his neck. The man defended his actions when asked to stop by claiming: "She asked us what happens when a woman comes in and I'm showing her."
She then interviewed a woman at the bar, who previously worked as a bartender, who responded that she tried to ignore what she heard from the men, and added: "I'd say a woman enters a public bar at her own risk."
The reporter concludes her segment by stating solemnly: "I don’t know what you made of it all but, as far as I’m concerned, it simply proves that men are still terrified of women."
