Men using Mumsnet

I noticed that too, I find it difficult to comprehend. Women are always innocent and justified, no matter how shitty the behaviour and it’s always a man’s fault, or of a man does it, it’s ltb territory. If a woman does it, it’s fine.

Oh I was just about to post the same 😡

Men have the whole world, why can't they stay out of our wee corner?

Why would you think it’s a safe space, how do you not know there are both 10 million people on here, and there is no verification or vetting on sign up?

It literally states it’s a site for “parents” - not even female parents - and yet many posts are from people who are not parents. There is even a special section for childless posters. Maybe you could complain about that too.

Agree with all of this.

genuine posters? no problem.

"Man here - let me mansplain"? into the sea with you

I don't care who is women or men but I am sick of the double standard men are the enemy and women are saints who can't do anything wrong

This, so very very much. It drives me nuts how posters will tie themselves in knots to make everything the man's fault in any situation, while excusing a woman who does the same or even worse. It reminds me of an old old advert (like 25 years old) I heard on the radio about two men who were criticising a woman parking her car, bitching about women drivers and how they were useless. The 'woman' then bashes her car and the men sneer, then the person driving the car gets out and it transpires they are a man. The two men immediately backpedal and think up all kinds of excuses for why this bloke bashed his car, visibility was poor, road was slippery, yadda yadda. This site reminds me of that advert only in reverse.

That’s the first thing I thought too

I joined MN at my DW's suggestion, in order to answer a particular technical query. I've stayed because of the great advice and community spirit. I do think that there should be online safe spaces, but a public forum isn't suitable for that.

Doesn't bother me, I find some of their posts interesting. Also, how far would you take it - you get some teenagers posting for advice or support, who clearly aren't parents.

In what world could an open Internet forum ever be considered a safe space?

Mumsnet was always a safe space to me

It's a public forum, not a safe space

I don't care who is women or men but I am sick of the double standard men are the enemy and women are saints who can't do anything wrong

So maybe more men might balance it out, and hopefully of we stop the robotic posts that sound like they have been created by someone swallowing a motherboard it would be even better

A public forum is not a safe space.

YABVU. For one thing, this place isn't a 'safe space'. For another, it is for parents, not just mothers. If it were formed today, it probably would have another name. You can't complain about men not taking on any of the load of parenting and then seek to exclude them from a forum like this one. Get a grip.

I don't have a problem if it's a dad, but when it's single man with no children commenting incel and red pill type comments I wish they'd be banned sooner.
It irks me when a female posters asks specifically for men's opinion on here, I think it's insulting to come on a majority female platform and then ask for men. She doesn't even post it on the dad's section, which will show up on 'active' even if it's a bit sleepy there.
You should never assume an open online platform is a safe space, because threads on here get screenshottee, shared and sometimes go viral..years ago I was recognised by 2 peope IRL from my thread which led to very awkward conversations despite thinking i had anonymised the details enough. Just be very careful what you post and also just skip or report nonsense posts you don't have to read them. Posters have all sorts of agendas and backgrounds, if you saw how some live their lives versus how they judge and lecture on threads you'd roll about laughing.

Mixed feelings. Men tend to take over a site and change the tone. It's nice having a site that is mainly for women. Mumsnet is pretty unique in that respect.

I do know some real life single dads. One young dad is solo parenting a girl abd gas no womenfolk really in hus life, I'm sure he'd appreciate mumsnet at some point.

Not sure how a man asking about dating or bras impacts your 'safety'

The minute any ban is mentioned, cue hordes infiltrating and taking over.

Mumsnet is/was primarily a parenting forum, surely we do ourselves a disservice if we say that it's only for mums (Parentsnet just doesn't have the same ring to it), since Mumsnet was launched increasing numbers of men have taken a more active role in parebting. Dad's need to know how to take care of their children and have a space where they can ask for advice too. Besides that the forum has branches out into so many different areas there are very few that I can see that should be 'female only'

I agree with above. I think a lot of this site is parenting discussions, which really should involve dads too. Dad forums get much less traffic.

It's already an anonymous platform with people of many differing viewpoints. I don't find it's more or less safe if men are also here.

Please don't squeeze men out if they want some parenting advice/discussions.

It literally states it’s a site for “parents”

Mumsnet is a public and popular website, not a “safe space” at all. Threads and posts are often in the news and discussed elsewhere.

Although when it comes to the “man here” types who must announce they’re a man before stating their opinion you’re NBU. Followed closely by the posters who seem to always say “just asked my DH and he thinks….”

Parenting advice is equally needed by men and women.

School admissions for example.

I don't think the site is in danger of becoming overrun by men. It's a predominantly female space.