Page 8 | The Name Mumsnet sexist?

smthchri · 2012-03-18T13:42:57+00:00

I have a question. Is this site for Parenets or mums? are only mums parents?

BeerTricksPott3r · 18/03/2012 18:11

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crazynanna · 18/03/2012 18:09

OhChristFenton....was that clip wherest you acquired your name just fucking hilarious! FENTON!!!!

NormaStanleyFletcher · 18/03/2012 18:06

Just googled families for justice and they have a completely different web site and don't mention f4j as an affiliated organisation.

They are NOT the same thing

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smthchri · 18/03/2012 17:59

@NormaStanleyFletcher Fathers for justice is often known as Families For justice, which I prefer as I have been on 2 sides of this argument both as a child and a father many years
@Codandchops as this issue has been discussed before, and you ended up with Dadsnet as part of mumsnet.. I am guessing it is an issue.. and this issue has never gone away. Guess what.. it is still an issue

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smthchri · 18/03/2012 17:55

@NormaStanleyFletcher Fathers for justice is often known as Families For justice, which I prefer as I have been on 2 sides of this argument both as a child and a father many years
@Codandchops as this issue has been discussed before, and you ended up with Dadsnet as part of mumsnet.. I am guessing it is an issue.. and this issue has never gone away. Guess what.. it is still here.

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OhChristFENTON · 18/03/2012 15:31

I agree actually, the menz on here to tend to stick around don't they?

Maybe they are not so prone to flouncing as the laydeez.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/03/2012 15:30

'Arse weasel' - now that's an insult I must find occasion to use!

Would it be rude of me to point out to the OP that his title would make more sense if it had a verb in it?

Codandchops · 18/03/2012 15:30

This HAS been discussed before though - waaay back on and off and in the end we had Dadsnet within the site and now Gransnet as well. Good to have new people in though Smthchri - you are welcome here. Have a look around the site and see what's here.

OhChristFENTON · 18/03/2012 15:29

Hahaha Tiggy winkle

Brilliant

Honeydragon · 18/03/2012 15:25

Hec
I'd forgotten about that.

There are a huaaaage amount of fellas on this site who have been here for years and years and years and not one of them has gone "Mumsnet? Mumsnet?! Why you sexist arse weasels!!!"

Yet you turned up and registered specifically to complain?

BIWI · 18/03/2012 15:25

Mumsnet, of course!

BIWI · 18/03/2012 15:24

I love the way people who are new to Munsnet get so het up about something that all those of us who have been here forever have no issue with!

Welcome to Mumsnet, OP!

CappyHunt · 18/03/2012 15:23

Dull. And it's not even the Easter hols yet.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/03/2012 15:22

Logical - a tiggy with his own winkle.

OhChristFENTON · 18/03/2012 15:20

. - brilliant man-disguise though, calling himself 'Tiggy'.

I will now always imagine him dressed up like a saloon gal but sporting a tash and five o clock shadow.

ExitPursuedByABear · 18/03/2012 15:18

But how are we to know who are the men then?

Shrugs - does it matter.....

JustHecate · 18/03/2012 15:13

Tiggy.

Who I have been calling 'her' for years and indulging myself in some mild girly 'flirting' a time or two. I wondered why 'she' didn't play

It was pointed out to me that she is in fact a he. who knew?

I called him a 'naughty girl' on some thread about sausages.

And it was pointed out that I had given tiggy a sex change, cos he has a sausage of his own.

OhChristFENTON · 18/03/2012 15:07

Sequoia is like, the biggest tree ever and stuff.

I got that from 'My first wonderful world Encyclopedia'

SoupDragon · 18/03/2012 15:04

"Oh yes - we even have a man who is not even a parent on here. Oh yes."

We do?? Who?

Hunt him down with pitchforks and burn the interloper, that's what I say.

QIelf · 18/03/2012 15:03

I am not a mum.

In 9 years I've not felt unwelcome here because of that.

southeastastra · 18/03/2012 15:02

it's only for mums, men have the rest of the internet to play with

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/03/2012 15:00

I would be very interested to know if the OP is going to post a similar rant in Fathers4Justice and Netmums.

NarkedPuffin · 18/03/2012 14:48

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nenevomito · 18/03/2012 14:43

Thats brilliant Narked.

Did you know that Lawson's Cypress is one of the fastest growing conifer hedges available, the beautiful blue-green evergreen foliage provides privacy and shelter year after year?

NarkedPuffin · 18/03/2012 14:40

Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees belonging to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described in Africa by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in 1773.