MNHQ closing this board *MNHQ edited to say OH NO WE AREN'T!*

I have to say I had no idea what FWR was and after ages of watching twaddle on AIBU, finally got the courage to come and have a look... and stayed. I talk rubbish a lot but it is nice not to be shouted down (usually).

Nice edit MNHQ! I’m liking your style.

And thank you.

This place has saved my sanity.

Great title change MN!

I like the title change

MNHQ

I hope that if this subject comes up again in future we can confidently say 'it's behind you'.

I love that title edit. How to MNHQ with flair.

MNHQ

The edit

MNHQ

That's a good emphatic title change!

Just saw the title change!

and and huge thanks @MNHQ

I just thank goodness that MN is here. Like many, I initially wondered why there was so much “anti trans” stuff on this thread - which I rarely visited. Once I actually appreciated what was going on, I am just so grateful that there is a sane haven to go to.

Can't see this happening at all, regardless of how many TRAs want it. Targeting advertisers seemed to get them nowhere. MN has been instrumental in bringing this nonsense out into sunlight. I do wonder how far any of this would have gone if MN did decide to go the way of near all other forums and refuse to let us talk. The guidelines are annoying at times, but necessary I think.

I am sure Datun with her stats, said FWR was the second most popular board these days, after AIBU.

When I first questioning the gender agenda on another forum a poster there advised me to come here. I've been here ever since, abandoning that other forum which seemed too woke. I suspect I'm typical for many ordinary women who weren't in any way radical feminists before, but since discovering how by stealth our rights are being seriously undermined have become not just angry but raging!
This is the place. And there's nothing "they" can do about us because we're here now and we know.
No more stealth; the toothpaste is out of the tube!

On top of the above reasons, I'd add that a) it would look terrible (I'm sure at this stage it would hit the press significantly, and would draw even more attention to the GC arguments, so I don't think anyone but the most deluded activists would really want that now), b) the points made here are increasingly - and more visibly - being proved right, for example with the reporting on Karen White, Martina, the Tavistock report etc, and c) although they don't/can't say much, and despite the tightening of the guidelines (which I do think was done in an attempt to avoid worse, even if it sometimes seemed excessive), I would put money on at least some of MNHQ sharing our concerns and wanting to keep the discussion open, even if it means taking a lot of flak

Was intended as a genuine question.

The question mark is your friend, my friend.

Apart from the stats, there was a thread in which MNHQ asked people to say why they used MN, what they read .... I'm not sure they were expecting any particular response but it was overwhelmingly FWR, many posts from lurkers who aren't otherwise visible. Some people coming here specifically because they'd picked up that MN is a place where women can still discuss women's rights, a lot 'came for parenting, stayed for FWR'.

"I thought some time back a mner shared stats showing that this was one of the highest traffic areas on the site"

I don't doubt it but suspect a lot of the traffic is twanz people and their sympathisers keeping a watchful eye on us all.

Under his eye

We need women’s rights from birth to death, regardless of whether we become mothers, are childless, or choosing to live childfree.

The feminist board here attracts posters from all over the English speaking world and attracts traffic 24 hours a day.

I’m sure its contribution to business model makes it well worth the extra modding costs (demanded by the silent, volunteer Mumsnet Watchers - not the actual community users, of course. Under Zes Eye).

Oh god can you imagine the uproar if we started posting in chat all the time. The number of tedious “how do I hide threads?” posts would go through the roof.

Mumsnet closes it's feminism board?

not a good look. They'd have banned regular posters instead. Which in fact MNHQ did. Check out the missing in action thread.

if MNHQ close the board we'd all just go and make a nuisance of ourselves elsewhere on the site with our feminist views. At least this way we're where everyone can see us. I imagine that's part of the reasoning.

Nah. MN is too big and we're all too ugly.

It is posts like this that make me love MN.