Thank You from the Lurkers

Lurker and occasional poster. These threads are the only reason I visit mn these days. Thank you.

Still Spartacus.

Adding thanks from yet another mostly lurker but very occasional poster. This is a space, and you are posters, I value tremendously. And Jo March - your comments are brilliant, thank you. Bit late to wish a happy Christmas so a very good new year to you all. Thank you!

Many thanks to all

Another long time lurker who really admires the clear thinking and eloquent posters who have taught me so much - thank you

I very occasionally comment but mainly lurk. I'm learning so much and my eyes have been opened. Thank you!

A huge thanks from me too to all the amazing posters on FWR. I’ve learned so much from you all and have used what I’ve learned to pass on to others not on here. Thanks also to @J0sephineMarch - you are an absolute hero on the BTL comments on The Times.
Thank you all!

A huge thank you from me too. I mostly lurk, but occasionally feel outraged enough that I add a comment. I have learned so much from you all, and I also started from a position of "Be Kind", after supporting a friend through her transition.

But the issue of male bodies in women's sport made me think, and I came here and learned.

I'm also extremely thankful that you helped me open my husband's eyes to it all. At first he thought I was over-reacting, and he was tired of me grumping about issues like women's weightlifting. But every time something new and awful came up - like the Scottish Government being against Johann Lamont's 6-word amendment, like vulnerable women in prison being forced to share with rapists - your wise, angry, erudite posts showed him the issue and he now fights the good fight where he can.

for you all.

I can't hold a candle to the informed articulate brilliant women who make this forum the amazing place it is. I can't think of anywhere else on the Internet where debate and critical thinking are even allowed and where it rarely deviates from that into personal-insult slinging. Without spaces like this the future is dead. Not just because opinions are allowed but because the oxygen of debate tests them and helps disseminate vital well thought out arguments. We need critical thinking. They're is nothing good in this world that has come from blindly following group think.
I have de-lurked occasionally but usually make a hash of it and don't retain facts well enough to be a valuable contributer.
But I come here often and it helps me discuss in real life these issues - constructively.
Thank you to all who contribute and speak for so many. The world needs you, I support you.

It's another thank yoh from me. I don't post here very much anymore but because of mumsnet I was radicalised, joined twitter, then a feminist group and since then I've been involved in more direct action.

Cheers 🍻 to all you insightful and thrawn women!

Hesitated to join this vital internet space because I was ‘only’ a concerned stepfather and uncle. My first comment is just to thank everybody who has defended women and kids. Safeguarding FTW.

Thank you from another lurker.

Thank you from me too.

Thanks from Australia! The babycenter au forum ain't got anything on mumsnet. The smallest whiff of biological reality gets you a permanent ban.

What a fantastic thread

Thank you from another mostly lurker. I too am in awe of those posters on here who have taught me so much, and with such eloquence whilst I'm still trying to organise my limited collection of grunts, squeaks and burps into a sentence.
Wishing all of you a happy and successful New Year, and thanks OP for starting this thread.

Thank you from me too

Thank you from me. I don't have the words, even now, but I'm so glad you posters do. Wishing you happy holidays, and a serene new year.

A huge thank you from me too.

Thanks from me too. Having worked in women’s refuges, including deciding which women get a space or not, I’m horrified that a man could ask to come to a refuge. Don’t know if this has ever happened but I know @IamSarah has had a shit time accessing women’s services. I am so glad I don’t work in women’s services now.

Everything I’ve wanted to say has been said, but wanted to add to the astonishing number of appreciative lurkers/mostly lurkers.

The voices on this board are clear, strong, frighteningly well-informed, logical, and persistent. Stunning intelligence shining through as well.

Thank you all, wishing the best for 2022, and thanks for making me a digger.

Thanks for this thread! As an occasional poster and daily lurker, I really value the capacity of the regulars to discuss topics clearly. I have said before, finding this site saved my sanity.

What a great thread.

Thank you everyone for keeping me sane when I feel like screaming. Thank you for educating me and also being a source of info for my husband (who initially thought I had fallen down an internet conspiracy hole).

Thanks to you all I have supported numerous fundraisers and written to thank lots of peers who have stood up for women and to my MP who has very much not.

Hoping that 2022 is the year that the pendulum swings back and children are safeguarded and single sex spaces are valued, embraced,
and celebrated.

Thank you for such a lovely thread 🎄

Thank you to everyone here.
All power to 2022