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Deleted Thread Announcement - "Lads"

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MoleSmokes · 13/05/2020 19:09

Message from MNHQ: Lads, we're getting a billion reports and tbh, we're not sure that we're the place for this. How about thrashing it all out somewhere else? We're going to remove this thread now. Love and peace, MNHQ.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3907094-Comerfords-style-on-Twitter

Could someone from @MumsnetHQ please explain why the Thread Deletion message apparently addresses the OP (male) and the subject of the thread (another male bullying a female)? That is, rather than the Mumsnetters actually contributing to that thread who (I will take a wild guess!) were all or mostly female?!

I was on that thread and I did not see anyone posting, apart from the OP, who I know to be male, although MumsnetHQ might know better, of course.

It is particularly concerning that MumsnetHQ deleted a thread in response to "billions" of reports about Mumsnetters deploring the actions of a male (not a Mumsnetter, I would guess!) who has been relentlessly bullying a female Mumsnet member.

Then to address the Deletion message to "Lads"!!

Women were supporting a woman who was, and probably still is, being subjected to a sustained campaign of bullying and vilification by a male.

The fact that that this was brought to the attention of Mumsnetters on FWR by a male Mumsnet member is irrelevant. It is disappointing that MumsnetHQ seems to think that this is the most important aspect.

Even more disappointing that MumsnetHQ sided with the male bully (a Mumsnet member?? Really??) and his gang of Twitter followers against a female Mumsnet member and female Mumsnet members condemning her persecution by him.

Mostly this has been on Social Media but this has been part of a sustained campaign that has included "economic sanctions", blocking her receipt of donations from Mumsnetters when she was in dire financial straights.

From the flippant tone of the deletion message you seem not to have grasped that this is:

a) far more serious than people throwing hissy-fits on Social Media

b) about a young woman being persecuted, primarily by a gang of males led by a man - not a trivial spat between two "Lads"!

OP posts:
CodenameVillanelle · 14/05/2020 06:51

Wow.
@mnhq why do you think mumsnet isn't the place to discuss this? Why are you still doing what people who don't use mumsnet and who mass report threads want you to do?

UpTheLaganInABubble · 13/05/2020 22:08

I was just going to say the same about may be Irish... lads is used by some of us here in NI to mean either/both males and females

MindyStClaire · 13/05/2020 21:58

Maybe a new member of staff who's Irish - lads is very gender neutral here, and would be used for a solely female group.

Unshriven · 13/05/2020 21:46

I read it in Ardal O'Hanlon's voice. Grin

The kind of use of 'lads' that covers everyone, like 'guys'.

TheChampagneGalop · 13/05/2020 21:42

Lads? Does this person know where she or he is?

ItsLateHumpty · 13/05/2020 20:30

I don’t recall MN ever using sex based adjectives in a deletion message before. Quite jarring really.

I also thought MN had moved away from allowing reports from non-members, so who are the ‘billions’ that complained? Or are we being mod’ed by non-members still?

My comment / question are more general of FWR than this particular thread because I didn’t see said thread but the points raised by the OP are of concern as actual member of MN, especially at a time when MN are asking for subs.

mouldysprouts · 13/05/2020 20:00

I've never seen a deletion message quite like it.

JamieLeeCurtains · 13/05/2020 19:55

I didn't see the thread but I agree the message is very unusual.

ArriettyJones · 13/05/2020 19:54

However a certain person seems to want Glinner cancelled.

Heh. I wish them luck with that. 😏

Nice to dream big.

Redshoeblueshoe · 13/05/2020 19:45

I only saw the beginning of the thread and I have no idea why it got deleted.
However a certain person seems to want Glinner cancelled.
Glinner Wine

SeriouslySoDoneIn · 13/05/2020 19:39

Wow

ArriettyJones · 13/05/2020 19:18

It also has a whiff of ban hammer to it, doesn’t it?

ArriettyJones · 13/05/2020 19:18

I didn’t see the thread, but doesn’t that translate as “Sling your hook chaps”?

DioneTheDiabolist · 13/05/2020 19:14

That does not read like any other MNHQ message that I've seen. Is there a new member of staff?Blush