This is what Helen from Mermaids writes about MN feminist posters

So Matt went and set fire to his pants in M&S and got arrested. And then everything went on as normal

That made me laugh!

And, yeah, I somehow don't think that M & S are going to risk alienating 12 million customers, both potential and existing.

ASDA will I am sure will be equally cowed by Mermaids.

Funny how similar that is to Helens MO.

Meeting in mermaids batcave... (fishcave?)
"Hmm... how can we get across our thoughts on the hatefulness of Mn... oh I know, we'll copy what that famous MRA group did and go for their advertisers! That won't make us look at all like MRAs in disguise!"

"We complained to Mumsnet and, frankly, expected them to start investigating it straight away. It is a popular and well-used website and we assumed it would want nothing to do with this content."

It's quite telling and hilarious that men think adult women talking on a public forum should be supervised and controlled. As soon as they take exception to what they are saying, and are then utterly shocked that no one gives a fuck what they think. Including M&S.

It was also interesting to note that Justine said there were 30,000 comments per day. Scale up to month and it's nearly 1,000,000.

Which would only need a mere 12 lurkers for every poster to get up to that 12 million.

And i'm pretty sure there are way more than 12 lurkers for everyone who posts.

Ignoring men makes them so angry.

If I remember correctly, they then progressed to a dirty protest on DC.

Along with four other members of the group, O'Connor took off his clothes in the store to draw attention to what F4J claimed was Mumsnet's "anti-male agenda".

He claimed that the protest was just the start of a series of attacks on M&S in order to draw attention to the "naked truth" that Mumsnet "promotes gender hatred".

"We complained to Mumsnet and, frankly, expected them to start investigating it straight away. It is a popular and well-used website and we assumed it would want nothing to do with this content."

Dissatisfied with the response from Mumsnet, the group decided to target Marks & Spencer, which regularly advertises on the site.

"We decided to follow the money and draw attention to the company's connection with a website that had such hateful content on it. This is very serious issue, but they just failed to engage with us."

God, that F4J article's like something out of the Daily Mash.

At least the policeman looks like the whole thing was amusing for him.

F4J seem to have taken the cliche about all publicity being good publicity a bit too much to heart. They'd be quite amusing if you didn't know why so many of them have been denied contact with their kids.

Unsurprising parallels between Matt's protest - willy waving to shut women up - and the TRAs shouting 'suck my lady dick' - to shut women up.

Nope - he stripped off.

You might want the brain bleach...

I think what we don't understand is that we are not performing "woman" correctly. To fit into this brave new world we need to have the correct education, (see below) and only use our female brains in the proper way.

We are ruining everything unless we understand our backstage role, as the quiet, submissive, child raising homemaker. Who also works and provides half the cash (as if by magic as it would be foolish to assume we should be paid the same as men or non cunty women) do all the domestic drudge with a smile and leave all the sexy, proper lady stuff, and thinking, to those not cursed by bleeding or hormones etc.

Know your place CisWomen.

Was he wearing the pants at the time??!

Oh, F4J decided we were all very anti-male - you know, the usual stuff MN is accused of. There was a massive row on the boards, where loads of F4J came and accused women of using their children as weapons, murdering their children, having children just to get the benefits etc etc - and then Matt went after M&S for advertising here.

M&S knew full well which side their bread was buttered, and of course MNetters are far more likely to be their customer base than F4J - and so took not one bit of notice of them.

So Matt went and set fire to his pants in M&S and got arrested. And then everything went on as normal

Wow. She's tweeted in support of the transw teen wrestler who obviously beat all the girls. She really, really doesn't get any of it. I feel so sorry for her actually.

Wow. Very sexist (unsurprisingly).

FWIW...I'm not a Mum, I'm working class and I work full time in a senior role in the City.

Dunno but (like fekko) my immediate thought is -
liar liar pants on fire > f4j are the kind of men who are big fibbers

What statement were they trying to make with that?

Wait, I knew about the M&S incident, but was it to do with Mumset? Seems like just the existence of a site called mumsnet would enrage F4J.

Was he lying at the time?

I didn't know about the F4J underpants on fire. Further details? It sounds very amusing alarming.

So does she both read and type very very slowly? Because most of us manage to hold down jobs and be on the internet and have relationships and hobbies outside of that.

Not our fault that she's bad at time management!

Lor I just remembered that my DS had a little ironing board and iron set when he was about 3.

My uncle went mental. "Don't let him play with that! He's a boy! He can't play with that!"

Little did I know that what I mistook as ridiculous sexist gender policing, was actually cutting edge progressive ideology. And that DS's enjoyment of that little toy, was a sign that he wasn't really a boy after all, but a girl.

He seems to have changed back into a boy again in the meantime, although he does have the ability to analyse his feelings, so then again, perhaps he is a woman after all?

Forgive me Mermaids for I have sinned. I didn’t cart my son off to Thailand for breastfeeding his dollies. I.... let him.
I feel terrible. I mean, he’s 16 now, so his surgery is overdue. And all those years of refusing to force him to eschew the feminine. He learned to walk in Barbie shoes. With heels. And wore a tutu for about four years. Shit. I even let him do ballet. He danced for 13 years. What the actual fuck was I thinking ?!
Oh yeah. I remember. Gender stereotyping is bollocks. He’s a boy. Any kid can play with dollies. And the dance came in really handy for picking up the laydeez.
Transing children on the basis of toy choice is absolutely abuse. It’s so half wittedly thick as mince ‘afraid to catch The Gay’ that it’s a stereotype in and of itself.
I feel a bit sick that people actually sterilize kids because they believe this shit.