to wish this was a woman only forum?

If you are talking about online spaces, how do you know they are truly women only? I also wonder how many women here who complain about men on this site as a whole, feel free to come into for example Black Mumsnetters if they aren't Black?

You one of them?? 👀👀😂😂

I’m not a man, despite my use of the laugh emoji btw! I just like fun: judging men

The Sex board arguably needs reforming...

Yes these could easily be women.

Tbf quite a few women post on male forums like Pistonheads.

Otoh the Internet as a whole is sexist from its roots arguably, and that still shows now. So women's forums have a particularly important role.

I absolutely agree. I love a woman only space.

You have a rather idealised view of women, I'm afraid.

Yes, I wish it was women only. I came into Mumsnet expecting it to be a space just for women. Nothing against men, I’m married to one, I have a son and some of my closest friends are men, I just don’t really want them here. And yes, the ones I’ve noticed have been moaning about their wives. F#%k off ☹️

I don't know why so many people assume you can tell sex from writing style. You can't.

Hard agree, that was definitely a man I was responding to 😂😂

literally yesterday I saw a man asking for advice - I was about to judge him but then I saw it was under ‘dadsnet’ so I left it alone 😂😂

see how easy it is, men?

There’s a particular few male posters who obsessively monitor any mention of prostitution, and pop up endlessly with exactly the same tone deaf posts about how prostitution is really empowering, women enjoy it, they do it to get easy money, it’s the poor punters who are actually being exploited, etc. etc. It’s usually masked with faux concern about how “sex work” should be legalised, but every so often the mask of concern drops and something incredibly incel and unpleasant falls out. I could really do without those posters, to be honest.

Probably. I guess a wide berth is helpful in either scenario!

But then this is exactly what some of the female trolls will be doing because they know it drives MNetters mad, along with 'Man here'.

Exactly. If you don’t want to sound like a recently divorced out-of-work builder, best not to call women ‘love’ while you’re telling them off online for their pesky opinions.

To be fair women post that too.

True, angry and patronising women tend to say 'hun' on Mumsnet.

I always think calling someone ‘love’ sounds like an angry and patronising man. As a woman I might avoid using that term in case people thought I was an angry and patronising man.

Yes, or recently on the political threads they post walls of pontificating texts, only intended to derail and patronise. One of them got in a hilarious strop recently when called out.

I was drawing on my real life experience of how men behave when challenged by women.
I've no idea what counts as 'much experience of the Internet or many women'. I use the Internet daily and I'm 56 with a lifetime of meeting countless women.

But it's not a balanced forum, it's primarily women and has a female noun in the title of the forum.

If this sort of behaviour makes you assume those posters are men, you don't sound as though you have much experience of the internet or many women?

Fair enough. I assume people are men when they tell you your opinion is stupid or use laughing emojis instead of coming up with a decent rebuttal. I may be wrong, but it tends to fit patterns of behaviour of some men when a woman has dared to disagree and they can't think of a counter argument. They laugh and belittle because they can't stand being challenged and out argued by women.

Surely they exact same can be leveled at the posters advocating for a women only mumsnet.

They can go and establish their own but no they'd rather come on a site that has been set up as a mixed sex forum and impose their conditions on someone else's work

Of course not. Because it's relying on men to put in the work to engage with it and answers one another's questions. Men are far too important for that kind of free labour and community building. They can use women for that.