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Why is MMHQ doing the ‘pick me dance’?

34 replies

UnderHerEye · 03/07/2018 22:51

@MNHQ

It’s time for you to decide who you stand for, there are millions of posters who use your website everyday, women who have found support on here, women who have found the help they needed through pregnancy and birth; infertility struggles; fighting cancer; leaving a violent relationship; dealing with their own disabilities; dealing with children’s disabilities; dealing with loved ones going on deployment; finding the confidence to return to work, or to retrain; finding the confidence to make friends; and so much more.

Women have used this site to support each other, to make friends, to share their grief and pain, and sometimes just to share a joke or have a chat. There are thousands of forums on the net but this one, mumsnet, was accessible to women primarily because it was mainly women posting.

So who do you stand for @MNHQ? your users? or a group of people who actively despise your users, and your site?

OP posts:
AlonsoTigerHeart · 05/07/2018 16:19

Please don't try to subvert it into some sort of political organisation or dictate to those who run it what they should allow.

wafflyversatile · 05/07/2018 16:16

What exconstance says.

ExConstance · 05/07/2018 16:13

I find this constant obsession with trans issues and the less happy bits of life depressing. Lots of us use Mumsnet to talk about our pets, fashion, cookery, buying and selling houses, make up, what shoes to wear with this dress, holidays, crafts and sewing. We use it because it is there and because Justine and MNHQ have it open for us to do so, it is not our forum, it is theirs, and very useful and helpful it is too. It has helped me decide which bicycle to buy and how to exercise and a myriad of other things that have made my life easier and better. Please don't try to subvert it into some sort of political organisation or dictate to those who run it what they should allow.

Sparklingbrook · 05/07/2018 08:48

What the what what?

Bibesia · 05/07/2018 08:45

It's a parenting website. If you want an all-women website, look elsewhere.

ChampagneSupernovaAgain · 04/07/2018 10:41

Sorry I am lost too.
What is the Pick Me dance?

AuntieStella · 04/07/2018 07:02

I remember when ''twas all fields round here.

Seriously though, it's a much bigger site and not the same as it was. The number of threads which have ended up in the press has, I think, changed the site considerably - I mean who wouid post about their RL for support if they thought it could end up in the press?

And it's MNetters who have led/driven the change - topics are barely used. Everything is in AIBU or chat because that's where people want to post. I don't always like it, but people will use the site as they want to. And that's always been the case.

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 03/07/2018 23:00

Mumsnet has always had a special ethos

rascallyrascal · 03/07/2018 22:57

I'm lost. Hmm

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