To My Fellow Mumsnetters,
This topic arose on my recent thread about Bernie Sanders, so I decided to start a thread centered around it.
I really enjoy Mumsnet; there is nothing else like it. However, even as a mellow person, and someone whose hackles rarely get raised, I find myself increasingly pissed off by the anti-American schtick around here.
Enough about our mammoth American refrigerators! (Yes, I own one.) It is not our fault that you have imported over-the-top baby showers or bachelorette parties ("hen-dos"). (I didn't have one, for the record, I think that they are dumb.)
Our educational system is very decent, thank you very much. (For one, unless you are talking about NYC, children here are guaranteed a spot in a local school in the town in which they reside. No muss, no fuss.
Also, did you know that the majority of US physicians, of whom I am one, currently support the implementation of a single-payer health care system that provides guaranteed coverage to all? We are working on it, European onlookers!!
The US is like a collection of 50 different small countries horribly lumped together, and change can be slow.
But we got it together on gay marriage! That was pretty impressive. And Bernie Sanders is very popular! That is a good sign. We make good tv shows?? (Yours are great as well, and much more artful, imho.)
And I think we are so nice to you-always gushing about your lovely accents, assuming that you are smarter than we are because of how you talk, even, appreciating your amazing architecture, art, lusting after your sexy princes, etc...
Well, that concludes my rant for now. Thank you for reading it. I feel better. Commence telling me IABU.
With Love,
Pitiless Yank.
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To point out the anti-Americanism on Mumsnet?
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PitilessYank · 04/02/2016 15:52
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