Official Complaint to Mumsnet

Sorry, it's gone again. WTF is happening?

It's back in Active for me.

Vulva owners?? And they thought this would go down well on MN?! Whoever is responsible for their marketing should be shown the door immediately. Women have vulvas - men do not. Say the word ‘women’ and be proud to stand with the facts.

I too have followed the bread crumbs from another thread to this one as mnhq have hidden it very well indeed. They obviously have a very low opinion of their users.

What's with the censorship @mnhq ? That's a taboo that's more real than coy vibrators disguised as toilet refreshers

It's a poorly thoughtout concept that reduces us to our sexual organs. It makes us as Mumsnet users the target of more ridicule and trolling. Thanks so much mumsnet for once again patronising us.

I don’t think MNHQ have the guts to come back on here & explain why they’re silenced us, so I’m stepping away to safeguard my blood pressure which is raising with each ‘refresh’.

My faith in MNHQ is now permanently erased. Cash over customers. No scruples. TRA’s. No adequate responses. Can’t read the room. Silencing complaints.

I feel like I’ve just been betrayed by a close friend of 12 years 😢 😔

Another own goal from MNHQ.

I have reported the OP so that I could ask why this thread is not showing up in Active.

They do not seem to be responding to tags.

Vulva owners 🙄
I mean it's all very well saying you note our comments and are having a chat about it but honestly how did this ever get past you in the first place.

I'm a woman. Not a vulva owner.

How many products do we see marketed at "penis owners"? It seems to be only the word "woman" that is being erased.

Feeling to sweary to type more now.

WHAT!!!!??

I can't imagine it's going to sell well with people who hate Mumsnet avoiding it and all Mumnsnet posters hating it too!

Yep. Absolutely garbage ad, and poor response from Mumsnet.

Placemaking in case I can't find this thread again

Ahoy there @Thatshipsailed . Perfect summary. Sadly.

That's about the size of it, yes.

Hey, just arrived at the Beach. I heard the goss is that MN is hiding valid debate in order to try and sell vibrators to people with wombs. Accurate summary?

I think the key words here are 'can pay'

Can pay so will call women vulva owners. Can pay to trample our patronising bollocks ad copy over a site for women.

Can't pay? Skulk over to the hidden board and STFU.

@TheShellBeach

Take my money!

They won't respond to tags. You need to report.

Completely agree @PlaitBilledDuckyPuss . Additionally if penis havers who identify as women want to buy a vibrator intended for vulvae and use it differently who are smilemakers to tell them otherwise?

Or dentists.

Although tbf if it only made me smile I'd be asking for a refund.

@MNHQ Why isn't this thread showing up in Active?

A shame, as this could so easily have been different. Just market it as a gentle vibrator and describe its design features, without all of the stuff about womb-havers and sexual taboos. MN could have included the testers' comments highlighting that some new mothers have found it a good product for them.

The womb-havers comment was particularly silly, as the need to avoid penetrative intercourse applies to women who have had hysterectomies, as does the need generally to be very careful in your vulval area while you are still healing, possibly for several months - yet, in their wokeness, they threw what would have been an ideal target market for this product under the bus!

Or perhaps, as hysterectomies are most common in women of middle-age and beyond, it is simply more erasure of the older woman and an underlining of the misogynistic construct that once women are past-childbearing, they are no longer valid sexual beings.