Not sure how I got there, but I found myself reading a reddit conversation in answer to the question 'Why is mumsnet so transphobic?'
www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/ewqit7/why_is_mumsnet_so_transphobic/
I have tried to compile the various suggestions. Even if you accept the premisese of the question, see if you agree with the answers, many of which are assumptions about Mumsnet posters.
- Its owners are transphobic
- Its users are middle aged, middle or upper class, white, CIS, uneducated women
- Other, similar boards are too right-wing. Oh, but its users all follow Katie Hopkins and read the Sun
- Some conspiracy theory about Russian bots... no idea...
- The echo chamber/ network effect / breeding ground, populated by people who sit around in their pajamas all day
- It's all just the same few people posting anyway
- Mothers tend to get judged all the time, so judging others is their way of getting their own back. Mothers who are feeling insecure because they have achieved little other than breed.
Does anyone actually recognise themselves in this misogynistic pile of stereotypical assumption?