Seeing a hidden section

Y'all know there are other sites apart from mumsnet right?. I don't understand why you would continue to use a site when you hate the set up so much? (Not to op)

The Feminisms board have now been split into two boards.

One called Feminist Chat where you're not allowed to talk about anything that requires any feminist analysis of sex/gender, because men get upset.

And one called Sex And Gender where you are allowed to talk about sex and gender, but you're compelled to call things the opposite of what they are, or contort yourself into a linguistic arabesque to avoid being forced to lie, in case a man gets upset. Otherwise you get banned.

You see, lots of people who don't visit or use the Feminism boards asked for the Feminism boards to change so that the feminists wouldn't go there. The users of the board said they didn't want this change, but sadly the voices of the non-users was more important (as is so often the case with women, must be the frequency of our voices, no wonder the best women are male).

Perfectly put PPP!

How dare women women all
over the place

…and just in case anyone is wondering who Maria Mclachan is, she was one of a group of women meeting to discuss things that affect women (self-ID more specifically), who were hunted down and violently attacked in London. One of the men who attacked her wasn’t traced, the other was charged. Maria was forced to refer to her attacker as female in court, despite said attacker being legally male. That was the wtf point at which I no longer worried about ‘seeing hidden sections.’

Back in the day I used to skip over the Feminism section because I foolishly thought we were all sorted and had our rights, so it was just a few hardcore types discussing academic theory. Then one day I clicked on a thread about Maria McLachlan and discovered what was going on with sex vs gender. I was an ostrich right up to that day.

So from one perspective having a section with that title might actually have some benefit, because it’s pretty clear that’s what will be under discussion and more MNers might think ‘I’ve seen something about this in the news, will find out more.’ We know the issue is a feminist one and while I agree the lack of user input is frustrating, it may have some use the lobbyists didn’t envisage?

So if I understand this correctly, Mumsnet's attempt to pacify the non-feminists who have already hidden the Feminist board has resulted in two new feminism topics appearing in their feed again?! Brilliant stuff MN!

[quote FelicityBeedle]@PearPickingPorky
Plenty of women, Cis or otherwise get upset at what’s said on the feminism board because it’s often backwards and offensive[/quote]
You're right, the sooner women and girls embrace patriachy, the sooner we all, as a society, can progress.

IMO FWR makes some feel uncomfortable with the choices and allowances they've made or are making, and challenges their comfortable blind spots. They're happier doing ostrich impressions.

@CardinalLolzy I agree, it's only ever used on here in a goady way. Just highlighting the hypocrisy.

wait I'm assuming OP knows that full well, which is why that word was chosen. I suppose the rules about it don't necessarily apply to this board though.

That's true, but since I've learnt to ignore the goady misogynists it's not so upsetting.

And plenty of women object to the term 'cis' because it's backwards and offensive.

My sarcastic point was that as long as I've been on this site people have wanted feminists hidden in a corner. This board splitting is the latest manifestation of that. Mumsnet's assumption that people won't want to hide feminism chat now the "nasty transphobia" has gone completely misses the mark.

One called Feminist Chat where you're not allowed to talk about anything that requires any feminist analysis of sex/gender, because men get upset.

And one called Sex And Gender where you are allowed to talk about sex and gender, but you're compelled to call things the opposite of what they are, or contort yourself into a linguistic arabesque to avoid being forced to lie, in case a man gets upset. Otherwise you get banned.

You see, lots of people who don't visit or use the Feminism boards asked for the Feminism boards to change so that the feminists wouldn't go there. The users of the board said they didn't want this change, but sadly the voices of the non-users was more important (as is so often the case with women, must be the frequency of our voices, no wonder the best women are male).

Yes, that was brought up on the relevant thread....!

Thank you. Isn't it a bit weird that mumsnet have assumed that everyone who has hidden feminism chat did so because of the "trans stuff". Maybe I just hate women?

Go to 'talk' and the little dropdown arrow next to it (probably need to be on a desktop/browser).
'Customise'
Scroll to bottom - there's a button under "Ignore topics in Active Conversations"

There, never let it be said feminists can't be useful sometimes.

Same and I can't remember how to hide boards.

Oh for goodness sake lol