From a male perspective...

Thank you so much for posting that link.
It's a very good thread indeed. Aren't we lucky to have men available to explain hard things to us.

I know exactly what they can do with their opinions, mansplaining and misogyny.
But then again it is funny when they arrogantly post it on here and get piled on and torn to shreds when they didn’t see it coming.
If we keep doing it we can weed them out.

I don’t see a massive “man here” influx. Rather, the opposite, men are saying they are outside the norm so almost apologising for that.

You can be assured they are not apologising for being a man on here, more likely territory marking...

I’m not keen on the “my wife doesn’t want sex” posts, but to say that men can’t post generally is unpleasant.

I am aware of several posters who are single parent
men or 2 dad families. Why on earth shouldn’t we they be allowed to post?

I do like that this is a rare women dominated space, it it is also a hugely valuable parenting resource- probably even more so for dads who don’t have a female partner to provide that prospectus, but I don’t see a massive “man here” influx. Rather, the opposite, men are saying they are outside the norm so almost apologising for that.

anyway, I prefer it to the “I asked dh and he said” posts.

Wims 🤢

Ahh I get it. You were just scolding us wims rather than being serious. Now I can ignore you knowing you have nothing useful to add.

Btw, where have I said all blokes are incels? 🙄 (Rhetorical question).

Misandry alive and well I see, as ever, here.

“by parents, for parents” is the tag line of this forum and website. Men are also parents, single parents often too, trying the best they can.

Can any of you imagine a (male dominated) site that says : women not welcome?

No, of course not. That would be awful/illegal and technically not possible to implement.

If a man (shock horror) starts a post..
”man here/male perspective here”..
absolutely pull him up on it,

But to suggest men shouldn’t post here isn’t really feasible is it.

Exactly! Amazingly, a lot of us on here have sons as well as daughters, and want everyone's questions/opinions valued equally, regardless of sex.

Or “Hello ladies”.

I think the logo for Mumsnet is meant to be for parents so that would include men. I don't know why they need to be a special caste

It hadn't been linked, though.

Sure, I would love to troll those threads.

We know.

If you'd read the thread you'd see that it's been mentioned several times.

There is a men's board already

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/dadsnet

Yes please

Crack on OP. Set it up..post a link on here.
looking forward to it.

That's the civil starting point isn't it. That's why there are forum rules. You're presuming all blokes who post on here are incels? Like I said do what you want.

Always makes me chuckle when they throw their two cents in. Like women are posting to MUMSnet looking for men’s opinions.

But according to you

Opinions should be valued no matter who is espousing them

Do what you want.

I don't value incels opinions. Are you trying to say I should welcome them instead? 🤔

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Which is exactly why you need the alert that the person posting is a man. It is not possible for prevent men posting and some people do like seeing a man’s pov. With the information that the poster is a man, you can ignore it and move on. The rest of us can read it.

The point I was responding to was not about whether or not men should post but that some people like to read a man’s perspective and wish to know that the poster is a man. As you don’t want to read anything that a man writes, you agree with me that it’s useful to know if the poster is male.

If I want a man's perspective I'll ask my DH, DB or Dman on the street. I come to mumsnet to get a woman's perspective.