This is what Helen from Mermaids writes about MN feminist posters

Christ I have to tweet for part of my job and haven’t clocked up that many!

Someone with too much time in their hands and trying to frantically justify their own life choices and persuade others to madly follow suit?

She has 16,500 tweets. How can she complain about bored housewives?

Just think: while the Mermaids mob are frothing at the mouth about Mumsnet they are losing valuable time persuading parents to lop bits of their children and pump them full of drugs.

So we can't be all bad.

No no. Mermaids are sexy innit. They are every man's dream. Hear 'em singing and combing their pretty long blonde hair and they irresistabubble. Their milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. Mermaids is perfick, because every man wants to be desired by all the other menz so they want long blonde hair and a a bikini top. Being a woman is entirely, solely, and completely about being irresistible to men, innit. It is weird that they chose a siren as their logo. Yes. Bloody weird.

Just checking in. Retired ex-military (yes, you fuckers, I see you with your 'first woman in the infantry' literal bollocks - and the levels of misogyny that I fought through out) still work ft in civilian career, first in family to go to university but only once I retired, three kids, one of whom is GNC, one of whom is disabled. DH is perfectly capable of looking after himself (and them) while I neglect them entirely. He'll have the dinner on the table shortly.
But thanks for the stupid stereotyping. It just reinforces your own ideology, which is completely based on outdated gender stereotypes. It's weird to buy into stereotyping so hard that you will literally sterilize children in order to ensure they do it too btw. Heaven forbid we just ignore stereotypes and e dry one just do what they want to do, no appropriation necessary.
(It does make me laugh when TIMs forget they are LITERALLY women and accidentally remember when they were men, or align themselves with men though. That is LITERAL VIOLENCE. How do you even punish yourself for that? Throw yourself in a fire? Punch yourself in the face? )

RedToothBrush Agree. Her epitaph will be 'mother of a transgendered kid'. I'd like mine to be a bit more wide and varied than a one issue life.

The mermaid myth is a religious myth. It's all about the continuation of the soul.

Hans Christian Anderson. From Wikipedia

*The prince and princess celebrate their new marriage on a wedding ship, and the Little Mermaid's heart breaks. She thinks of all that she has sacrificed and of all the pain she has endured for the prince. She despairs, thinking of the death that awaits her, but before dawn, her sisters rise out of the water and bring her a knife that the Sea Witch has given them in exchange for their long, beautiful hair. If the Little Mermaid kills the prince and lets his blood drip on her feet, she will become a mermaid once more, all of her suffering will end, and she will live out her full life in the ocean with her family.

However, the Little Mermaid cannot bring herself to kill the sleeping prince lying with his new bride, and she throws the knife and herself off the ship into the water just as dawn breaks. Her body dissolves into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the warm sun and discovers that she has turned into a luminous and ethereal earthbound spirit, a daughter of the air. As the Little Mermaid ascends into the atmosphere, she is greeted by other daughters who tell her she has become like them because she strove with all her heart to obtain an immortal soul. Because of her selflessness, she is given the chance to earn her own soul by doing good deeds to mankind for 300 years and will one day rise up into the Kingdom of God.*

A wee bit different from the Disney version.

The rest of her life is dedicated to the pursuit of reassuring herself that she did the right thing.

She is defined and trapped by it.

Would you rather be a degree educated, middle class, sahm who things and tries to find alternatives or be someone who has to justify their own actions by leading other young men and women blindly down the same route?

Difficult choice that one.

They block every one who disagrees so are grandstanding to an echo chamber. The best of it is, they then believe the majority of people support them. Like I said, mad as a box of frogs.

PS Helen, I've just walked the dog, mopped the kitchen and bathroom floors and vacuumed through. Is that ok with you? Does that match your criteria for lazy? Oh, I scrubbed the loo as well.

Fab post RedToothBrush.

The little Mermaid

Kids movies, what a bitch.

I'm glad you said cognitive dissonance.

It's completely impossible for her to ever extricate herself from the rabbit hole. She'd have to accept that she's enabled a loved one to mutilate themselves. No one is going to accept a world view that includes that. So cognitive dissonance all the way.

This is so hilarious.
People on mumsnet diss the feminist board for "thinking SAHMs can't be feminist"
People off mumsnet think the feminist board is full of bored housewives.
Hilarious

Will you call the Fuzz on everyone?

Jeffrey tried that.

Thanks Upstart. That's what I've been trying to tell dh...

CertainHalfDesertedStreets My sincere condolences. Dont worry, we all have a dry spell.

I have got NO 'man junk' in my box Fekko.

It's pristine.

Helen has posted on threads in the past. She gets trounced every time because she can't back up the shit she spouts.

It always amusing me too when I see TRA's and their handmaidens boasting about the amount of retweets they get.

It's amusing because so many of the retweets I see are people taking the piss or refuting what they are writing.

I'm not bored, I have netflix and cheesy wotsits.

Mermaids needs investigating.

Isn’t a box where you keep your, errr, ‘man junk’?

Mermaids is creating an awfully small box of acceptable womenhood for their DC to live in

I think you need a dick not a box

I am working class. I am university educated (first generation of family and all that jazz). My kids are grown up. I run my own business.

All you posh, lazy, bored grifters on Mumsnet FWR did not lead me to conclude that Gender Identity Theory is sexist, homophobic, regressive bunkum.

That would be my common sense. And quite a few of Helen's tweets.

Some of us work, some don’t. Some are MC, WC and everything in between. Some of us are loaded and some of us are skint.

And yet, remarkably, all of us are having a debate about this whole issue and coming to the conclusion that TRAs are engaging in a dangerous cult that threatens to harm countless children and remove women’s rights.

So away with your divide and conquer. We can debate and make our own minds up, thanks.,

And we are supposed to take the views of someone who calls herself mimmymum seriously? I just get an image in my head of someone wearing a red polka dot pinny and very 1950's clothes...

So I'm not middle class, am uni educted, am middle aged but don't look it, loads of piercings etc, I run a business and this weekend much as many I am working, hence why I'm in front of a computer, but I am going to cook chilli now, I may even talk to my husband at some point.

Yep, shaking like a shitting dog