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A solidarity thread

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Catitainahatita · 06/07/2011 19:25

Diplomacy is not my thing, but I try.

After this weeks events I thought I would start a thread with the express aim of expressing solidarity with the world wide web's feminists and the MN ones in particular.

Also because I came upon these:

www.facebook DOT com/ pages/Mumsnet-Sucks /120667294688534

anti-mumsnet DOT blogspot DOT com/20110301_archive. html

Sorry but I am not putting them in as links on purpose, because I don't want them to link back here (and if you cut and paste them into your browser and put in the dots you will see why.) Both are anti-MN sites, both of whose number one enemy appears to be the feminist/women's right section.

Let's not pander to them, I say. They are the only ones who want to shut this board down and shut us up.

Feminists of MN! I will support you always.

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SybilBeddows · 06/07/2011 20:14

Yours arrived promptly StayFrosty. I now have one from RumpelstiltskinsHat too. Am looking forward to the rest....

Grumpla · 06/07/2011 20:14

Oh my god, I still haven't finished mine either!!! Blush

Okay, need to put that back at the top of the To Do list

UsingMainlySpoons · 06/07/2011 20:12

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Grumpla · 06/07/2011 19:53
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Catitainahatita · 06/07/2011 19:49

Total agreement with you both. I just hope I can opt out of the singing... we've already had the equivalent of a year's rainfall in the last week over here!

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Prolesworth · 06/07/2011 19:48

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rainbowtoenails · 06/07/2011 19:48

Had a laugh at that facebook one. Let them waste their time getting their knickers in a twist over us. If we are pissing off the MRA establishment it means we must be doing something right.

SybilBeddows · 06/07/2011 19:46

the success of the MN feminism section over the last year has been quite impressive; there are so, so many feminists on MN, it is really inspiring. It makes my head spin to think that there are people who object to Mumsnet so much that they set up entire websites devoting to bitching about it (and note, it's not just the feminism topic they talk about, it's threads people are posting in Relationships and elsewhere on the board as well) but it is a sign of how threatened they feel simply by women talking.

I love the MN Feminists, the feminist section lurkers and the large number of MNers who don't hang out here but do post seriously feminist stuff all over MN all the time.

UsingMainlySpoons · 06/07/2011 19:33

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tougholdbird · 06/07/2011 19:31

completely agree - and trying to stifle the rad fem message because it may not always be comfortable listening for us, or we may not agree with it, or may not like the way it is put over, doesn't mean it should be supressed. This section would be a poorer place without it and would stagnate. Hope that made some kind of sense.