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I just found out there's a site called netmums

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Frans1980 · 18/10/2012 17:10

Did they steal the name mumsnet and swap the words around or did we steal their name?

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Jux · 21/10/2012 22:16

My children call me mother. Anything else is frightfully infra dig.

meddie · 21/10/2012 22:10

I actually find mothers referred to as 'mummy' by anyone older than 5 to sound rather infantile. I suppose it depends on what you heard from those around you, when you were growing up, as to what you find acceptable.
I often wondered though why it was called mumsnet and not parents, as I'm sure there are not that many virgin births.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 21/10/2012 22:00

This is true. Wink

catgirl1976 · 21/10/2012 17:49

Spot on LRD Grin

It's rather.........trying too hard

LRDtheFeministDragon · 21/10/2012 16:29

'Mummy' isn't posh, it's nouveau. Or what babies say. FWIW.

amillionyears · 21/10/2012 15:47

To us plebs,"mummy" sounds like your child is still 5 years old.

Xenia · 21/10/2012 15:41

The Times had alphamummy at one time which felt better.

grimbletart · 21/10/2012 15:29

How about Maternet?

ConsiderCasey · 21/10/2012 10:59

Ah it is starting to make more sense now.

catgirl1976 · 21/10/2012 10:23

I love the idea that "mum" is common

I shall tell the members of my family with titles to stop it at once Grin

Xenia · 21/10/2012 10:15

Indeed.
Currently it is both arguably "common" and sexist in title.

slartybartfast · 21/10/2012 10:13

actually it shoudl be Parentsnet

qo · 21/10/2012 10:10

I live in the north so I think we should have mamsnet

Beograde · 21/10/2012 10:09

I'm now laughing at the idea that people are judged by how they refer to their Mum/Mummy/Mother.

catgirl1976 · 20/10/2012 20:01

I am mumomum

I want a mumomumsnet

amillionyears · 20/10/2012 19:36

The second one Grin

TheLightPassenger · 20/10/2012 19:31

MaMa'sNet? MaamsNet?

amillionyears · 20/10/2012 19:24

mummysnet?
mummiesnet?
mummies'net? Perhaps that one. Grin

WofflingOn · 20/10/2012 10:45
Smile

Doesn't The Lady have a website for the better classes to chat with other mummies?

paulapantsdown · 20/10/2012 10:45

Netmums is a little bit older than mumsnet, and it actually has more members. Mumsnet is better conected in the meeja and so gets much more press (mumsnet seems to really 'court' the press, but is actually less succesful in terms of ad revenue and members.

Netmums is a lot more annoying than here, but is more successful. I prefer it here, but I really hate all this netmums snobbery.

Xenia · 20/10/2012 10:42

Of course they call me mummy. Loads of upper middle class mummies are called mummy. Every time I see the word mumsnet I wince. Ugh.

TheLightPassenger · 20/10/2012 10:34

Xenia Grin

WofflingOn · 20/10/2012 09:26

Do your children call you mum, Xenia?
Or mummy?
Or by your first name? That used to be very cool when I was a teenager. Very trendy upper-class.

Xenia · 20/10/2012 09:14

They both claim to be founded in 2000 so it must be a bit of a moot point which was first. I don't think their names are confusing so it's not a problem.

Both of course are dreadfully working class. Who calls their mother mum? Gosh, only plebs presumably.

We poor mummies are right out in the cold, excluded, rejected because we don't use that dreadful word mum.

WofflingOn · 20/10/2012 07:35

Not a feminist issue, unless you have taken notice of recent results about a poll that was carried out over there. Feminism is apparently at best, dying out and irrelevant and at worst, extinct according to their members.
There have been threads about it on this site.

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