Page 2 | Why have Mumsnet deleted the "Feminism: Sex and Gender discussions" from the easy "Talk" sidebar?

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 09/10/2022 08:43

Its an open forum canthearmyselfthink random posters can’t tell people they can’t go on one of the boards

and quite obviously living on the other board is a joke

and honestly? I worked as a lunchtime supervisor in an infant school and heard ‘you are not allowed to come to my party’ many times….’you aren’t allowed on this board cos i said so’ is incredibly childish

(with the honourable exception of support threads or threads intended for a specific type of poster)

CantHearMyselfThink · 08/10/2022 23:57

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 08/10/2022 16:21

I was also told I wasnt allowed on the other board

id be fucking living on the other board if someone told me that 😀

To what end though? Don't you think that's a bit of a childish response?

Moonatics · 08/10/2022 16:55

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Well, yeah?

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 08/10/2022 16:21

I was also told I wasnt allowed on the other board

id be fucking living on the other board if someone told me that 😀

Helleofabore · 08/10/2022 16:19

I was also told I wasnt allowed on the other board.

I do remember something like that. Maybe they believed if you associated with them, they’d become unclean.

ArabellaScott · 08/10/2022 16:12

Helleofabore · 08/10/2022 10:47

I remember one rather vocal poster who declared everyone hateful and went and started a thread that I wouldn’t have thought was a feminist issue in the 2020s. But there you go. We were the ones not feministing properly.

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I was also told I wasnt allowed on the other board. 😂

Rapunzel22 · 08/10/2022 14:55

DifficultBloodyWoman · 08/10/2022 05:10

It is worth remembering that MNHQ is not one homogenous group (as evidenced by some moderation decisions).

Like a lot of offices, they will almost certainly have a few bright, young things spouting wokery at volume with other gender critical staff quietly trying to not get fired.

Remember the intern and trans rights activist, Emma Healey, who published private user information online a few years ago? Well, she did say at the time that she still had friends at MNHQ who felt the same way she did.

We have no reason to believe that has changed.

Bloody hell ! Was that what happened then? Remember it well!

ReunitedThorns · 08/10/2022 12:30

This board seems more active than the Christmas board though.

Signalbox · 08/10/2022 12:20

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 08/10/2022 12:18

@Signalbox gah! We're looking at this now. Something has glitched.

Thank you :)

MNHQ

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 08/10/2022 12:18

@Signalbox gah! We're looking at this now. Something has glitched.

Helleofabore · 08/10/2022 11:16

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Yes. We know.

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 08/10/2022 11:13

Well thats not very helpful 😀

Signalbox · 08/10/2022 11:08

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 08/10/2022 11:07

Your iran post is back on this board but I can’t get into it

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Yes, this thread prompted me to ask for it to be moved back but now it won't open at all.

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 08/10/2022 11:07

Signalbox · 08/10/2022 10:31

See I don’t think that should be allowed, if you want your thread on feminism sex and gender board it should stay there

It was rather annoying. It's not like I hadn't considered where to post it in the first place. And it was getting plenty of replies with nobody complaining that it was "in the wrong place". Why should Mumsnet care if the Sex and Gender board has a thread in solidarity with the women protesting in Iran?

Your iran post is back on this board but I can’t get into it

BewaretheIckabog · 08/10/2022 10:51

I really don’t believe Mumsnet is against discussion on this board. They have to tread a difficult line. I have seen a few comments this week which would have been deleted a year ago.

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 08/10/2022 10:50

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Yup

LisaFi · 08/10/2022 10:48

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Helleofabore · 08/10/2022 10:47

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 08/10/2022 10:43

helle

a lot had no intention whatsoever of starting a thread

they just enjoyed complaining about other people not starting threads

I remember one rather vocal poster who declared everyone hateful and went and started a thread that I wouldn’t have thought was a feminist issue in the 2020s. But there you go. We were the ones not feministing properly.

Helleofabore · 08/10/2022 10:44

well exactly, plus women protesting in iran has absolutely everything to do with sex and gender and fuckall to do with chat

It was always a bizarre demand hypocritically based on other’s ideological thinking.

The Iranian situation is exactly the right fit for sex and gender. It wouldn’t be occurring if those females were male.

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 08/10/2022 10:43

helle

a lot had no intention whatsoever of starting a thread

they just enjoyed complaining about other people not starting threads

Helleofabore · 08/10/2022 10:42

Ereshkigalangcleg · 08/10/2022 08:13

It's quite possible that some officious soul reported it as being on the "wrong" feminism board.

I am constantly struck by how little activity is on that board. And just how many of those who complained seem to have disappeared. Have they run out of things to discuss there or just realised that there is not enough people who visit there to get the interaction they expected?

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 08/10/2022 10:41

Why should Mumsnet care if the Sex and Gender board has a thread in solidarity with the women protesting in Iran?

well exactly, plus women protesting in iran has absolutely everything to do with sex and gender and fuckall to do with chat

Signalbox · 08/10/2022 10:31

See I don’t think that should be allowed, if you want your thread on feminism sex and gender board it should stay there

It was rather annoying. It's not like I hadn't considered where to post it in the first place. And it was getting plenty of replies with nobody complaining that it was "in the wrong place". Why should Mumsnet care if the Sex and Gender board has a thread in solidarity with the women protesting in Iran?

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 08/10/2022 10:11

Signalbox · 08/10/2022 08:12

Also they recently unnecessarily moved a thread I’d started from FS&G to FC. They obviously want to plump up the FC side of things (which is dead on it’s feet). It’s weird that they are obviously scanning the boards for anything that can potentially be moved across.

See I don’t think that should be allowed, if you want your thread on feminism sex and gender board it should stay there

i understand the other way round when something is moved from chat to here, as that was the point of the thread split, but if you prefer this board then you should be allowed to start threads here

i thought with all the complaining that the chat board would be packed to the max by feminist discussions that ‘weren’t allowed to exist’ on the FWR board…seems a bit quiet

MNHQ

YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet · 08/10/2022 09:58

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