What an absolutely MARVELLOUS article.
I mean - it was very long-winded, and seemed to go in circles a bit, but it did do an comprehensive job of representing how Mumsnet is a catalyst for women who want to consider biology important to feminism.
"How wrong I was to underestimate Mumsnet."
LOLs.
I particularly enjoyed the conclusion:
My reporting on MRAs hasn’t found many solutions. In the long run, I hope that there will be an ever-growing movement for gender liberation that sweeps up mums in its embrace, leaving the toxic forums to wither. But the only individual solution that seems to work, anecdotally, is having long conversations with family members like Mulready did.
SUBMIT TO THE GROUPTHINK. BE KIND, MUMS. BE KIND.
That isn’t going to be easy.
When one commenter posted that she was “at the end of my tether with my mother, who has become engulfed in the gender critical discourse mainly thanks to this website” this stated attempt at an “open discussion” garnered 1,000 comments. In the end, the original poster only responded to a few. Perhaps she was a troll, as some commenters surmised, or maybe she was overwhelmed by the Mumsnetters, who called her a “midnight misogynist” and told her to “listen to her mum.”
Katie J.M. Baker is a reporter based in London.
Wonder if Katie did in fact, "listen to her mum" in the end? 