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Mumsnet Obsession With Penises

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Manfreglory · 29/06/2025 18:33

My controversial opinion is that most of the Mums who obsess here over penises, uteruses and chromosomes, would pick more important and interesting topics if their own child was trans.

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BettyBooper · 30/06/2025 10:14

Jimmyneutronsforehead · 30/06/2025 09:57

Oh I will give this a go.

To be honest I love a pack of those Korean spicy noodles, the really soupy ones, and then to crack an egg on top. Feel like a world class chef when I do that, especially if I sprinkle some chopped chives on top.

A cracked egg and chives?!

That is proper. 😘

RedToothBrush · 30/06/2025 10:13

ArabellaScott · 30/06/2025 08:02

I always try to bear in mind we have no idea who is posting. Could easily be an 11 year old. Although many people live with astonishing amounts of cognitive dissonance, mixed in with emotive reasoning that they barely are even aware of themselves.

I expect it's a fairly normal part of human nature that the internet has just made more visible, but possible it's also fuelled/amplified by the medium.

Anyway. It's put me in the mood for butter chicken tonight. Rick Stein's is pretty good.

If it's an 11 year old, then Id be concerned about why they were on the internet at 2.30am unsupervised. It would explain many things though.

DustyWindowsills · 30/06/2025 10:12

There's a thread on "army curry" at Arrse.

https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/army-curry.50133/

I haven't seen a recipe yet, but there's mention of a cookbook for the Brigade of Gurkhas.

It sounds like what my mum called NAAFI curry. I used to pick out the sultanas and leave them on the side of the plate.

RapidOnsetGenderCritic · 30/06/2025 10:12

Christinapple · 29/06/2025 23:39

There are several threads on here from posters who have a family member who is trans or has trans supportive views. The outcome is a thread here saying they have became estranged with them and other family members. A lot of posters post about being kicked out of online or offline friend groups for being overly obsessive and negative about trans people.

You don't win friends with salad gender critical views.

Though I am saddened by my son's near-estrangement from us, it's noticeable that he can get over his feelings of disgust at my daring to see gender differently from him when he needs advice on something I know about and he doesn't.

BackToLurk · 30/06/2025 10:11

Could someone bring the thread full circle by providing a recipe for curried penis?

RedToothBrush · 30/06/2025 10:10

EdithStourton · 30/06/2025 07:21

Clearly this is a forum for mothers who've never loved and cared for a trans person.
You have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

Was I right? Are you 20 and sent home for the summer to wind up the wicked terfs? Many of whom do know and like some trans people - but who also believe in biological reality and safeguarding.

Well it was certainly interesting that post was 2.30am in the morning.

Most PARENTS of gender questioning kids here will be in bed by that time being knackered after looking their child that they love very much.

(Noting there are actually plenty of Dads here too, but you'd know that if you were a regular).

RapidOnsetGenderCritic · 30/06/2025 10:03

Helleofabore · 29/06/2025 23:14

Oh ! My!

I don't think you should be reading 50 Shades of Grey so often 🤣

Jimmyneutronsforehead · 30/06/2025 09:57

BettyBooper · 30/06/2025 09:06

Ah thank you for this too!

Yes it was something about how in the 50s everyone was completely bamboozled by curry and now we uncultured types are similarly bamboozled by trans. And some other equally nonsense points.

I will now share my most recent food discovery...

Tum Yum noodles in a packet. Packet of stir fried veg. Put together and you have a very tasty and cheap dinner.

Oh I will give this a go.

To be honest I love a pack of those Korean spicy noodles, the really soupy ones, and then to crack an egg on top. Feel like a world class chef when I do that, especially if I sprinkle some chopped chives on top.

ArabellaScott · 30/06/2025 09:55

POWNewcastleEastWallsend · 30/06/2025 02:33

Reminds me of the exchanges between Tom Swarbrick and Rachel who called in to LBC:

https://x.com/LBC/status/1504855407373787143

Buh-loody hell.

That you, OP?

ArabellaScott · 30/06/2025 09:54

PepsiForEva · 30/06/2025 09:49

Grin

I'm currently googling to see if I can find a recipe that is most like her dish. Not finding a good match so far, but it also had sugar in it if i recall.

I'm not selling it, am I?

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GailBlancheViola · 30/06/2025 09:51

Alucard55 · 30/06/2025 09:40

Brilliant!

JFC that was painful and people like Rachel think laws should be made on that level of complete and utter incoherence.

Whataloadoffuss · 30/06/2025 09:49

ArabellaScott · 30/06/2025 09:42

I'm sorry, but curried sausages with raisins is 100% the most controversial thing I've read on Mumsnet.

My Grandad loved curried fishcakes!

PepsiForEva · 30/06/2025 09:49
Grin

I'm currently googling to see if I can find a recipe that is most like her dish. Not finding a good match so far, but it also had sugar in it if i recall.

I'm not selling it, am I?

ArabellaScott · 30/06/2025 09:42

PepsiForEva · 30/06/2025 09:40

That sounds good.

My mother used to make curried sausages in the 1970s. With raisons and always with sliced banana and coconut. It was really good surprisingly.

But I am not great with curry generally although I love a creamy passanda. I am afraid I just use a jar of korma and then add more coconut milk to even that so it becomes even more mild. And pappadums. Lots of pappadums. I'm more obsessed with those than penises to be honest. (And people with penises are not women).

I'm sorry, but curried sausages with raisins is 100% the most controversial thing I've read on Mumsnet.

Alucard55 · 30/06/2025 09:40

POWNewcastleEastWallsend · 30/06/2025 02:33

Reminds me of the exchanges between Tom Swarbrick and Rachel who called in to LBC:

https://x.com/LBC/status/1504855407373787143

Brilliant!

PepsiForEva · 30/06/2025 09:40

DeanElderberry · 30/06/2025 09:16

Yes! made with minced lamb, spices in the meatballs and other spices in the sauce. She was very insistent on grinding ones own, but she always had help in the kitchen so I cut myself a bit of slack on that.

That sounds good.

My mother used to make curried sausages in the 1970s. With raisons and always with sliced banana and coconut. It was really good surprisingly.

But I am not great with curry generally although I love a creamy passanda. I am afraid I just use a jar of korma and then add more coconut milk to even that so it becomes even more mild. And pappadums. Lots of pappadums. I'm more obsessed with those than penises to be honest. (And people with penises are not women).

BackToLurk · 30/06/2025 09:34

DeanElderberry · 30/06/2025 09:21

My parents got very fond of curry in the 1950s - their faves were in a Burmese restaurant somewhere near the Charing Cross Road, and when Auntie S came back from India late in the decade with a head full of recipes she was very popular.

I think some of the OPs opinions "everyone thought eating curry was weird in the 50s", "everyone on mumsnet is married" "everyone is married to a man (traditional bepenised kind)" probably reflects their own ingrained conservative view of the world a little more than they'd like to examine.

DeanElderberry · 30/06/2025 09:32

There must have been so many returnees with recipe books and eating habits shaped in Indian kitchens from 1947 on - though curries had been popular for centuries. Remember the bit in E F Benson's Queen Lucia (1920) with the guru/curry cook?

It's as though the OP knows nothing about culinary history or British and Irish domestic habits.

NextRinny · 30/06/2025 09:28

Go ask your trans friends why they all keep their penises.

You'll be in good company of those who really obsess about their "lady bits and the euphoria it brings".

DeanElderberry · 30/06/2025 09:21

My parents got very fond of curry in the 1950s - their faves were in a Burmese restaurant somewhere near the Charing Cross Road, and when Auntie S came back from India late in the decade with a head full of recipes she was very popular.

DeanElderberry · 30/06/2025 09:16

BettyBooper · 30/06/2025 09:08

Meatball curry?! Is this a thing?

Yes agreed. There's lots of incoherent nonsense flying in.

Yes! made with minced lamb, spices in the meatballs and other spices in the sauce. She was very insistent on grinding ones own, but she always had help in the kitchen so I cut myself a bit of slack on that.

MarieDeGournay · 30/06/2025 09:15

Have I got this right:
there was a question on AIBU 'What is your most controversial opinion?' and somehow this morphed into a bunch of posts appearing on the Feminism: Sex and gender discussions board, most of which display a total lack of awareness of the issues, a complete ignorance of the range of boards on MN, an unwillingness to debate any of their claims, and then 'you've never even met a trans person, door-slam'.

We've had our usual fun with the obvious silliness of a lot of the posts, but nobody on this board asked for these opinions. and frankly it's getting a bit tedious now.

Why did their contributions not appear on the board which originally asked the question about controversial opinions? How did then end up here? Can they all be moved back to AIBU?

YesButNoButMayybee · 30/06/2025 09:13

It really is very simple. Fact trumps delusion/illusion every time.

Male OR female. Man OR woman.

One cannot be or become the other sex. However one might want that.

It isn't kind or supportive or right to affirm nonsense like that. Particularly when there are potentially actual, devastating and irreversible consequences to health as well as mental and emotional well-being.

WarriorN · 30/06/2025 09:11

Manfreglory · 29/06/2025 18:33

My controversial opinion is that most of the Mums who obsess here over penises, uteruses and chromosomes, would pick more important and interesting topics if their own child was trans.

I’ve not read the full thread but my direct answer to this premise is you’d be concerned if you had a pre pre verbal 15 year old girl who needs a lot of carers attending to her intimate needs if told that anyone with a penis may be doing that.

id be more concerned if I was told that only women, including men who identified as such and had not had any surgeries, were the only group of people who’d be giving her care.

seemingly the world has learned nothing about how abusers deliberately target the most vulnerable in any which way they can.

no males AT ALL is safer than mostly women and a few men who changed their name to Gloria.

of course reprimanding threads like this are DESIGNED to shame women into be kind, the perfect cover for such abusers.

Which group of people is the most vulnerable to sexual assault? Women and girls who have severe physical and / or cognitive disabilities.

Why? Men know how easy it is.

What do men have that drives this? Penises

BettyBooper · 30/06/2025 09:08

DeanElderberry · 30/06/2025 09:04

I think I'll look out my auntie S's meatball curry recipe. Curries are good in hot weather.

Has anyone noticed that if you use (as many of us try to, I think) a slightly different turn of phrase, within 24 hours one of the mono-obsessive visitors will use it right back? Often slightly misunderstood - see 'anecdotal'. It makes me wonder whether the actual posters are human, but relying excessively on AI assistance, hence the general wordy incoherence.

Meatball curry?! Is this a thing?

Yes agreed. There's lots of incoherent nonsense flying in.

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