Why is it ok to shoot your friend but not wrong your dh's neck?

[witchofzog]

I apologise if this is not allowed or if I have breached a rule but I am genuinely wondering this. A thread yesterday where the dp was an absolute arse, had the title about wringing his neck. This was changed by mnhq. However the thread about shooting a friend is still very much going (albeit it is a lighter hearted thread but even so..)

I am sorry if anyone else has mentioned this and I know it is a taat but seriously mnhq. Why?

[witchofzog]

Aarghh wring not wrong

[SantanicoPandemonium]

I was wondering the same - seems to be one rule for some and another for the rest

[Hont1986]

Personally I think:
a) shooting your friend is a lot more hyperbolic and fantastical than wringing DH's neck, so I see a difference there.
b) the thread was angry and not very light-hearted, so the 'threat' seemed more serious.

Obviously neither is serious, but one was clearly a joke and the other was sort-of-not-really a joke.

I wouldn't be happy if there was an angry thread titled "I want to wring DW's neck" either.

[TizzyDongue]

Because more posters get upset about threats of violence towards men from women?

They think it's terrible that certain turns of phrases have been used from a female to a male. Mostly you'll find the complint is made for the (the ironic reasoning) that if a man said it about a women there would be an total and utter outcry.

[TinyRick]

But to 'wring someone's neck' is just a saying/phrase, right? It never actually happens.

Shooting someone is far more violent and an actual thing that happens.

[TinyRick]

Tizzy both posts are about males

[TizzyDongue]

Ah right. Scrap that then. No clue why.

[KurriKurri]

I don't actually think either needs to be censored - I mean we are grown ups, we can cope, we can tell the difference between people using figures of speech and actual threats of violence.

Of the two examples given I would find the shooting one more 'violent'.

[witchofzog]

That is what I think Kurri Neither caused me concern or offence. And if they did to others then they are both on par with each other imo

[ImperialBlether]

But threads about men choking women during sex are allowed in the Sex topic. There are women supporting it, too. I can't understand why the OP who wanted to wring her husband's neck had to have her title deleted when others don't.

[AuntieStella]

It probably means one thread was reported and the other one wasn't.

Have to say I don't like the sorts of thread titles which offer violence. Because they always looks wrong when they are context-free in 'Active'

Better in the OP (just as long as the tone is clear from the writing, and there isn't a dreadful 'lighthearted' anywhere.

[monkeywithacowface]

A quick google shows that is also alright according to MNHQ to want to punch, kick or trip Eamon Holmes

[PandorasXbox]

I guess someone reported it to MNHQ. Absolutely flummoxed to why anyone would tbh. Some people

[Eolian]

Presumably because one was lighthearted and the other wasn't, and because one provoked complaints and the other didn't. To be fair to MNHQ, weighing up the exact offence-causing levels of different phrases and sayings in different thread titles and then assessing them in relation to the seriousness or otherwise of thread content probably isn't a precise science...