Why is the feminism board fair game?

People have been moaning about the feminism boards since before self id was a twinkling in someone’s eye. Before then it was nasty feminists saying you can’t be a sahm or you can’t shave your legs or you can’t have sex with your husband. I believe before my time there was a load of shit went down targeting certain posters and people are still talking about it ten years later!

If I was being uncharitable I might think it’s because people don’t like clever women who don’t show appropriate deference. Perhaps it’s just some people are massively uninformed, who knows?

Because some women are too internally misogynistic cool to be a feminist, so feel confused and threatened by feminists.

it does crack me up when some MN posters complain that there's 'too much trans stuff' on FWR. It's like complaining that a gay forum has 'too much about issues affecting gay people' on it.

If we don't oppose this dismantling of women's rights and the very definition of 'woman', there will be no FWR, mateys.

You haven’t spent time on other boards! AIBU is brutal, and some of the educational ones are pretty much certain to make most people feel inferior.

In comparison, most people here seem constructive and intelligent.

When I was young, I thought it was expected to hate it all. I assumed men did and wanted to impress them, I put it down a lot.

I was sooooooo cool.

Because we are incredibly subversive and dangerous

I find it annoying too but I have seen it happen to other topics. Whenever there's a big flurry of activity on any board it can happen. The doghouse, the royals, Christmas when it's not Christmas are ones I can remember.

I still laugh when I think of a big drama about how all feminists are meanies and anyway we should all be equalists. (There was more to it than that but that was the gist from the non regulars.)

The Human Rights board was set up for all the passionate equalists - didn't seem to get a lot of traffic, it seems people prefer to carp about other people doing stuff wrong than do anything themselves.
So I take it all with a punch of salt.

There was a thread in aibu yesterday asking how to hide a topic.
Feminism threads are showing up too much in active.
One poster said it was "so off-putting"
Ignorance is bliss I suppose.

A lot of people don't like feminism, nothing new there.

They also don't like the uncomfortable tackling of self-ID either - questioning trans issues is a bit like heresy.

Even if you do engage on these things, if you come to Mumsnet for light relief after an exhausting day, you don't necessarily want those sorts of threads either.

When asked directly by Mumsnet most posters actually use MN specifically for the feminism boards, rather than trying to hide it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3377940-Tell-MNHQ-why-you-use-Mumsnet?watched=1&msgid=81404196#81404196

there is something about FWR that makes some people very cross...

but i'm afraid i don;t know what it is

I don't get the need to broadcast how much they hate a particular section, sometimes even in that section towards particular posters. Just don't open the bloody threads, hide the section without announcing it, or post stuff that you'd rather be talking about. Why make such a bloody fuss about it?!

Happens quite often for Baby Names.

I think the reason this happens to the feminism board is that whilst Feminism encompasses a wide range of important women’s issues, a disproportionate number of threads is about transgenderism.

Add to that those threads are quite narrow minded - people who join them with an open mind (and questions) are often accused of being “trolls” or “goady”. (I guess you do get some goady folk on there so I understand the suspicion, but still! Not very nice for the people who are genuine). This really puts people off the Feminism board, I think.