Mumsnet Obsession With Penises

The urge to snatch the catering back from DH's grasp and make a curry is getting ever stronger...

I still make a Malay fruit and meat curry, based on my dad's recipe from the Dark Ages (the 70s). Looking at the recipe now, it is clearly an adaptation of a Malay recipe (his dad was in the Navy, so they were stationed abroad during dad's childhood), and uses the ingredients they could get hold of in the UK in the 60s, when dad first made it. It has apples, marmalade, tomato ketchup and sultanas in it, amongst other things! It's a very nostalgic recipe for me, because I remember my dad making it for us, but I am sure that real curry afficionados would faint in horror at it!

When dh makes it, he sometimes put sliced banana in it, if we've got any that are too ripe for me to eat - and it is delicious.

I doubt @Manfreglory is still reading, but I would be fascinated to know why they think that a woman who has consented to see A penis (that of her partner/husband), has automatically consented to see EVERY penis, even if they are attached to complete strangers. Does @Manfreglory not understand the concept of consent? Do they think that, if they consent to have sex with one person, that consent automatically means they have consented to have sex with anyone who demands it, even total strangers? I doubt it.

Yep, that's what they want.
Self ID, acceptance without exception, no debate.

". . . rapist who 'pretended to be trans' and raped women in a prison: not trans." My dear, let me introduce you to a concept - that of self ID. It's not called what other people think of me ID. This line of thinking is a cornerstone of trans ideology - if a man says he's trans, then he's trans. And you are being transphobic for stating that he's not.

Too bigoted to understand that no, we don't all look and feel the same; yes, throughout history people's childhoods have been blighted by gender dysphoria and that: yes, it's a real, actual, come-by-it-honestly thing.

Again, we know that. We were the generation who fought to get into male jobs, who had crew cuts, wore DMs, jeans and went to stag dos of our male friends and not the hen dos of their partners [well, I did].

We also know, that cutting someone's body parts off or giving them drugs that will permanently change their body and make them lifelong patients, bringing forward issues and diseases not usually seen until middle age, just because they 'don't feel the same' is NOT the answer.

We also know that MEN WHO SAY THEY NEED TO SEE GIRLS GETTING UNDRESSED are not the good guys.

And we also know that Anorexia wasn't a thing, it was a very, very rare disease until it was all over the world news and then outbreaks happened wherever it had been seen shortly afterwards. We know that girls are prone to these highly influencial trends, indeed psychologsts the world over knew but were still referring girls to the gender clinics instead of saying 'No'. Mainly because the girls all had their scripts ready to threaten suicide after getting them handed to them online. And would report them if they didn't.

We are so past caring that you call us 'bigots' for wanting kids to get to adulthood unharmed. We've had it for years and years. Whatever.

100%.

I can't really say it any better than the mighty LangCleg (before my time but should be lauded to the skies for her prescient posts)

Basically cos it's posh lemonade that the middle classes drink I think is the logic.

Round our way. Not my house.

You're not beating the penis-obsession allegations with this response, whatabout-ism at it's finest.

I'm amazed there's any eating in lamb's testicles. In the days when I walked over sheep fields they tended to be sealed off with tight rubber bands when the animals were tiny, and atrophied and dropped off after a few days.

Ram testicles now - there used to be a woolly chap in the village who sought comfort by backing up to a farm gate and dangling his impressive scrotum over one of the lower bars - presumably taking the weight off was an ease. It wasn't a pretty sight, but it was undeniably impressive. In its way.

@RedToothBrush tory Fanta? Do you mean round your house? Or round your way? I never knew a drink could guess a political viewpoint! Only the classic taste one though not the new one with sweeteners that ones vile 🤣

Interesting - given how many male young mammals are gelded young unless they are being kept intact as breeding stock,I wonder if lamb testicle stew might be considered vegetarian?

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My mum (not in the UK) used to make sweetbreads (which I thought was thymus but I googled and it can be both) in Madeira and it was delicious. A hotel in Denmark where I was staying last year had them as a starter in their restaurant, so good.

Mumsnet is not mandatory.

If you dont like what the women here are discussing, feel free to fuck off.

Or 'Tory Fanta', as it's known as around here...

Maybe we just need someone by the ladies lavs offering tasters of BBQ bollocks? The toilet police of James O’Brien’s imagination could then divert anyone who winces?

I was just going to post about them! 😂

When I was a kid we used to have Lamb's Fries (testicles) and Lamb's Sweetbreads (pancreas) fried in breadcrumbs. Ages since I've had any. Very nice!

No curry recipe but our local turkish shop stocks lamb's testicles - here's a tagine recipe if you fancy:

I tried some at a BBQ and didn't take to the texture. Brilliant talking point tho - the crowd was divided 50/50 on who was even prepared to try. And 100% of males winced

Ah see, we had sliced banana (or even orange) to the side of the curry, and the desiccated coconut sprinkled over the whole thing.

In my defence, it was the 80s and this recipe originated Oop North. Even into the 00s my northern grandmother was suspicious of basil in tomato soup. I suspect if she'd met a bulb of garlic or some cardamom pods she'd have beaten them to death with a broom.

I am the mother of a child who insisted she was a boy when she was 3 and told me so. She would only wear what she had already learned somehow were ‘boys’ clothes which basically meant her brother’s clothes - whom she adored. I let her, but I was consistent in reminding her that clothes and toys didn’t make her a boy, so she would always be a girl but she could wear whatever she wanted and play with whoever and whatever toys she chose. She is a very happy teenager now, totally comfortable in her female body with no problems around identity. She still loves messy play and this interest is now being put to good use in the chemistry lab at school.

Had we, as her parents, been ‘obsessed with genitals’ as the OP accuses, we would have, on account of her personality and clothing preferences, thrown her life into disarray by forcing her community to lie to her about her sex, endangered her by encouraging her to use opposite sex facilities in times of vulnerability, permanently disabled her by feeding her hormones and encouraging her to undergo mutilating surgeries. THAT’S what obsession with genitals leads to. That is not the GC women on this board. It’s the exact opposite. To put it in child's debating language, ‘no I’m not, you are’.

TBH I always wanted to be a chic European.

Maybe San Pelligrino. Original Lemonata obviously.

What about those days when you're feeling a bit flat? Then do you identify as Lilt?

Not sure if I am Pepsi or Eva.

Possibly it changes day to day based on feelz and perhaps if i am arrested as one and can identify out of it.