Most ridiculous things you’ve been criticised for on mumsnet

Two times come to mind, one literally today! A mad poster took my comment that I will begrudgingly getting my children a cat for Christmas, partly to help my eldest still believe but mainly to help my youngest who we suspect is on the spectrum as he loves cats, and they help him feel calm (MIL has 3 cats and he spends a lot of time with them).

I'm not an animal lover but, you know, noy a psychopath so said cat will be very well cared for in my home but they were ranting about how people like me shouldn't have pets/a cat.

The other one was years ago, I was venting about how my quite rubbish hen do upset me. I was called a bridezilla and told my marriage was just for social media and I would shortly be divorced. Sorry but we are happily married nearly 10 years later!

Horrible to hear but what father did in all these events .....and why he didn't cough up

When if there are people who disagree with my opinion or dislike it, they can move on.

Someone tried to single me out on a thread which wasn't mine, mentoring me also that I post quite few comments ....that is bonkers, it's free forum, I wasn't rerouting the thread abd having 4 instead 3 comments doesn't mean they cannot move on

We did frozen not freezed sandwiches in my job. Put it in the toaster, cooks it like a panini

Being a ‘competitive undereater’ - which I had never heard of at the time because I dared to say I can’t manage a three course meal these days as I get too full. I’m not a skinny minny, I am a curvy 12/14 so it was abject nonsense.

For saying that my 5 year old child kept losing his lunchbox/coat/belongings at school and I was considering approaching his teacher to talk about it and ask if he could have some help, after it was pouring rain one day and he didn't have his coat to walk home in.

Cue pile on from mumsnet saying no wonder teachers are leaving work, that's not the school's job etc...

Child is now 9 and diagnosed with various SEN, so he absolutely did need help.

That made me laugh out loud. How dare you make the machines at the frozen onion factory do all of your work!

I was told I was neglectful and my child would be malnourished and grow up to have poor outcomes after I described how they'd only eaten chicken nuggets, bread and fruit for the best part of a year on a thread about ARFID. I shouldn't have given the nuggets in the first place apparantly.
I'd have actually been upset had the year I was talking about not been 1995, and the child I was talking about now 34, 6' 2" and healthy as an ox.

Years ago I dared to post that my DD was upset by two large loose dogs on a beach . DD had a fear of dogs at the time and this was the height of summer on a busy beach that was off season for dogs .

I was torn a new one for my "dog hating bile" by a poster ( who was eventually banned but not because the posts to me )

I regularly have to deliver training on really unpopular areas of the law. I now open with "I don't actually write the law" because the vitriol I'd get for what I was briefing from people who clearly thought I'd woken up that morning and decided to make their lives difficult by passing this law. Hasn't stopped it completely but definitely reduced it

Being an active step parent to my DSS’s. Apparently it’s overstepping to do their school run, makes me a Slave to DH (who only married me to get a ‘skivvy’ so he ‘wouldn’t have to parent his own kids), and it makes my own (nearly adult) children feel neglected because occasionally they had to get the bus (which went from outside our door to their school in 10 mins as opposed to the hour long school run for then 8 and 9 year old DSS’s).
Also just being a second wife. Stands to reason any man who has been prior married must have been an abuser or else why would his first marriage have ended? I see that one all the time sadly.

Being a feminist.

Talking about my 12 year old who cried at school. He was a wuss apparently and he might end up in prison as I have mollycoddled him

Being sad that Lakeland had stopped selling sticky mitts. The best thing ever for removing cat hair. Apparently people in the Ukraine have bigger problems. 🤔

I had a username ages ago that was 'NGNDA'
I was told that it was obviously a racist acronym. On a thread about something completely random.

it was an acronym for one a P!nk song Never Gonna Not Dance Again..

Frozen onions and frozen soffrito are the best! I can't chop anything well or uniformly (restricted range of motion from wrist fractures) but even if I could they save time and reduce waste. I also keep frozen garlic, chili and ginger in the freezer

They just sit in the hoover bag anyway, and plan their revenge 😀🕷️🕸️

Not on mumsnet but I got told I was selfish for trying to end my life aged 14 by my best friend (note, she's a shit friend). Im sorry you went through that. No one can judge you if they haven't been so desperately low they try to end it all

I was ‘fetishising’ adopted children because I asked the question is it appropriate for parents of adopted dc (adopted cos of sa) to be heavily into sex clubs and only fans

Of course...any criticism of Megan has to be racism doesn't it!

A very funny thread.

My taken to task were:

Asking a 26 old DC for rent when he earns more than his father. Apparently I shouldn't have had children if I couldn't afford them to live with me for free.

I should have moved out of my rental so an abusive landlord could sell in covid. I should have also done all his repairs as he'd granted me a tenancy.

I shouldnt have covered a pregnant colleagues job and tidied up her mistakes as I was secretly trying to push her out. I got pushed out!

I, and the rest of my profession, were called "weak, snivelling rats" a week or so ago. Heaven forbid we work in our chosen career. We should quit immediately and do something more worthy I assume.

Yes…all the ridiculous ‘Am I supposed to clean my skirting boards? Is this a thing?’ It seems to imply they are far too
superior to bother with such menial chores!

Years ago I got told off for buying frozen pre chopped onions. Apparently that meant I expected other people to do my menial work like there was someone in the back of the supermarket cutting onions and weeping all day, as opposed to them just being put through a big machine and bagged.

Oh yes - a recent one on the “are you a snooper” thread! In the absence of any character references for now DH (our only mutual friend was a diagnosed sociopath) and all I really knew about him was that most of his family were dead or no contact and he was living with his parents in his 30s, I said I snooped thoroughly before I got serious about him. And that is recommend my kids do the same. It takes the place of asking his social circle about him.

I did tell him I did it, and if he’d had issues with it I’d have accepted being dumped and assumed I’d had a lucky escape tbh