Why are feminists so aggressive?

Another unqualified feminist here too

I liked baked feta too, much nicer than putting it in a salad.

Yeah I often feel that way too but I'm still here putting my two pence in with no qualifications at all!

I am just going to pop my head above the parapet and say I love the MN feminist boards. I post a lot but I also NC a lot.

The feminists here have totally changed my views on a great many things.

I have to say I love baked feta! I don't think it's weird at all, nor is using it as a topping for a bean and tomato dish. Someone on the thread mentioned getting a takeaway from Papa Johns, which I like precisely because they have feta as a possible pizza topping, funnily enough. But obvs wouldn't necessarily feed feta to fussy kids.

Really?
Feminism is for all women. Not just those who have been to university.

mrsmuddlepies the Mariella Frostrup thread was only 22 posts long and a number of us challenged the OP for suggesting that MF wasn't a feminist.
Ironically the OP probably wandered off thinking we were being aggressive feminists

Shit. Is it? Does my a level sociology count?

My feeling about FWR is that it's a space better suited to those with an academic background in feminism.

Agree, home made baked beans so pointless. Also no sausage and bean casserole recipe I ever tried came out nice.

Aw shucks Bertrand thank you.

You weren't on the Mariella Frostrup thread. It didn't generate much traffic.

I haven't read all 22 pages of the broadbean (which turned out to be butter bean) sausage and feta stew but the OP didn't do herself much favours !

I cooked home made baked beans once- what a colossal waste of time. Stuffing a mushroom has nothing on it.

I actually think in the last few months the tone on FWR has become more 'agree to disagree' and less outwardly patronising and hostile.

I just think it ended up as a bit of a pile on and the only times I have seen that on here is when the op is clearly an mra or deliberate gf.

TBF - feta -_wtf!

TBF there are lots of other reasons why the OP in the sausage and bean casserole thread has gone to have a cry, not just the volume of posters saying WTF

Titania I was on a thread in aibu yesterday, it was just awful, on both sides of the arguement really. I imagine that lots of people were hurt. I have thought about it on and off all day and wish I had not taken part. I have never felt like that about the feminism boards. I love sausage and bean casserole but suspect that might not be the point.

Aibu not auburn

Talking of boards getting nasty there is a terrible thread in auburn right now where the op tried to feed her friends children a sausage and bean casserole and has been torn to absolute shreds in the thread to the point she went to sit in the garden to have a cry. I have never seen that behaviour here. I joined Mumsnet because of this board actually.

Any prostitute I ever met had a terribly sad back story to tell. They may have felt empowered by selling sex to some extent and enjoyed the money but it ultimately damaged them to some degree.

the labelling of women I don't like and the attempts to exclude posters because they are the wrong type of feminist (in the opinion of some posters). I dislike discrimination and the attempts to make feminism exclusive and not inclusive

Yup - that's about it Mrs

Taking that point of view the sex industry is an extension and expression of that oppression

That is your opinion. Not all women who call themselves feminists would agree.

Porn is exploitative , degrading and debasing.

I have noticed a lot of abuse and pure hatred towards women who talk about feminism on social media, especially YouTube. It's getting worse as well, there is a real backlash. Often the men criticising feminist have absolutely no idea what feminism is about or how diverse it is. It's gotten to the point that sometimes I feel too afraid to speak up or I just don't have the energy for a pointless debate.

These men just assume that as I'm a feminist I must be aggressive bitchy nasty, hate all men etc etc But before I mention feminism they react very differently.

The same with all the young women now who thinks it's so cool and original to speak against feminism on the social media platforms that feminism gave them as well as the right to talk about politics. I wonder how these same women will feel once their looks start to go and their male fans start to call them hag or past it etc or after they have children or get divorced, will their perspective change then?

All I know is I'm old and tired now and it really shouldn't be up to women in their 40's or Greer and her generation to have to keep this fight going and point out all the issues. I find young women now very disappointing.

I think we have gone backwards and I don't like this world right now very much. Men who think they can be as aggressive as they want on social media with no consequences and young women who take pride in being plastic and vacuous with this mad idea that their feminism gives them the right to run around looking like a porn star and shake their arses. It's depressing as fuck.

Look up the thread about removing body hair. You made repeated references to non feminists. Simultaneously on Feminist chat there was a whole thread about Mariella Frostrup being a non feminist. Disclaimer, I am sure that Mariella believes herself to be a feminist. This was a few posters objecting to something she had supposedly done.
It is the labelling of women I don't like and the attempts to exclude posters because they are the wrong type of feminist (in the opinion of some posters). I dislike discrimination and the attempts to make feminism exclusive and not inclusive.