A few questions for feminists

Don't have time to read the whole thread, but .. does anyone remember the 'midnight misogynist'?

Justa, please read the thread. Silly recipes and banter now.

Did you really just tell me off for calling an MRA a wanker?😁

I was reading edited highlights of this thread to my parents over supper. DF, 91, said "Surely everyone agrees with the principles of feminism these days?"

I love him for many things. One of them is raising me to be a feminist. DM was more conventional in her aspirations for me.

He's wrong about the universal acceptance of feminism though. Not while there are people like our unlovely visitor.

Aw, let's not eat Clara. It's not often the mods get the balance spot on and ban the wanker but still let us have fun

Not sure that the use of the word 'wanker' is appropriate to be honest ( doesn't help matters to state it, even if that is one's feeling).......

Sorry that was not addressed to conservativeV*, rather than to general discussion and the moderation team.

Personally , have no desire to "eat" anybody. I'm a vegetarian and have been for 40 years.

@ConservativeV8
I appreciate that you are maybe trying to be supportive...but the inconsistency of approach from mumsnet can lead to some quite bewildering outcomes......

So many posts have been deleted on this forum - based entirely upon reporting ( often targeted and malicious) - rather than through active moderation...that few seem to feel any confidence, at al, in the impartiality of the 'authorities'.

Aw, let's not eat Clara. It's not often the mods get the balance spot on and ban the wanker but still let us have fun. And I'm Ms. Grouchy McGrouch with the general moderation usually, so this is an unusual statement for me to make...

Not ten minutes ago Facebook showed me a video of vets extracting a whole 6 foot beach towel from a snake

Was there somebody on the towel when it went in? I wonder if they're still in there?

We've banned them now but if you're bored and want to just chat in this thread, shall we leave it up then

TBH Clara, that is a more than a little patronising. I think people can decide what they use as a stimulus for further thought and discussion without diktats from on high.

Why are women not supporting this ideology, which is supposedly for the betterment of women

If feminism is about valuing the voice of women, and of their particular lived experiences - which I'd personally say it is - than I think the vast majority of women are, and must be, feminists. It is the label and the accrued associations which are the problem, not the actual voice.

Why is feminism so small in number

I think you'll find that most women are actually 'feminists' - in the sense that they are women, and come at life from a female view-point. Even if some reject the label.

Been watching some documentaries over the last few days of confinement ( first all-woman round the world yacht crew, and the 1970 Miss World Pageant...) and even though many/most of the women, at the time of the particular events, would not have described them selves as such - later they most definitely did, on reflection.

The descriptor 'Feminist' still seems to have an unsavoury reputation, and many women still want to "be nice", and to placate - as their first instinct. They don't want to be seen as a "angry man hater".......

Equality of opportunity, and equality value is not the exact same thing as equality of outcome.....In fact, once equal civil rights have been achieved, then it is clear that differences and individualities come more into focus.

Women are not exactly the same as men. And not all individuals are the same, regardless of sex.

Delighted to see this thread and thank you @ClaraMumsnet for leaving it up.

My questions:
Do you write each post afresh or do you copy and paste?
Do you have a folio of past posts that you flick through to decide on which to post on the day?
Where have you been recently- we have missed you.
Why are you posting so early?
Why are you moving camp beds into Number 10?

Discuss.

oof, poor snake. Did it survive?

I don't know but the vets were very happy so I hope so?

I remember seeing a monster movie with a giant snake that ate people slowly. One of the bad guys started to get eaten feet first, and had a gun with one bullet. The protagonist was trying to get away, and the bad guy had the choice to either kill himself, or try and shoot the protagonist. He chose to shoot the other guy and missed, and was then left to get consumed alive by the snake.

Never been so freaked out by a movie before.

Swift and angry bear attack for me please.

Bobbly oof, poor snake. Did it survive? I have trouble trying to get mine to eat things that are proper food, so I can't even imagine what would induce him to eat a towel.

I've got so many wonderful screenshots from this thread. Lemon polenta cake with lemon curd filling might be on the books for this weekend.

Thank you the Bewilderness
Much appreciated, I might get over my 50+ years of aversion to lemon curd.

The Welsh word for bear is arth 🥰

Is it? Fascinating.

So Arthur means bear-er??

they tend to eat you head first so your limbs don't inconveniently bend the wrong way and snag on the way down

Not ten minutes ago Facebook showed me a video of vets extracting a whole 6 foot beach towel from a snake.

LadyQuarantina 😂😂😂

Oh Clara, you’re not really going to delete this thread, are you? With all these wonderful recipes on? Pleeeeeeease keep it. Even if you have to lock it.

Eoin I want to make friends with the red pandas too. So cute.

190 F is 87.7 C

I'm intrigued - I thought there was only one way to make lemon curd. Know you of some special variation? I usually manage to scramble the eggs because I'm too impatient to wait for the mixture to cool down before I add them.*
I do! You go from the other direction.

Easy fruit curd
cream 8-12 oz caster sugar with 6oz butter until light and fluffy. add 3 eggs one at a time. The amount of sugar depends on the sweetness of the fruit juice. 12 oz for lemon, 8 for raspberry.
If you intend to use this for a cake you need to bloom 1 teaspoon of gelatin and set aside.
Add 4oz of fruit juice and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to egg mixture then cook and slow and low stirring often to 190*. I use the mixer bowl over a pan of water but a heavy sauce pan works fine. Add the bloomed gelatin at the end. Pour into storage jars and let sit at room temp for a while before refrigerating. Makes about 20-24 oz.

PertElla they tend to eat you head first so your limbs don't inconveniently bend the wrong way and snag on the way down. Pythons aren't very bright even by snake standards, though, so it's not a given that you would avoid the horror of being consumed from the feet up.

I have been scouring the shelves in discount bookstores for The Midnight Misogynist's Cookbook: Recipes I Learned From Feminists because he has surely had enough over the years.

I picture him with his laptop, formatting ingredients in bullet point format in his manuscript, and realizing he needs more for the 'One Pot' section, so he C&Ps his usual devastatingly clever opener and sits eagerly with pen and paper to glean our culinary wisdom.

He's probably taking so long to finish the book because copying down recipes takes longer when you're habitually only able to use your left hand to write them down.