Women's Hour bit on slang and Mumsnet

[toomuchtooold]

I've just heard a male academic on Women's Hour talking about slang and how he thinks that more slang will originate from women and as a result will be more "caring and sharing" than in the past. He cited Mumsnet's DX thing (DD, DS, DH etc) as an example of this.

Is it just me who always thought that they were meant to be a bit ironic? I always imagined them starting as someone going "we're hosting 18 6 years olds for a birthday party this afternoon and my darling husband has just decided that this is the best moment to defrost the freezer " or something and then it got copied and then slid into cliche and eventually just What We Do?

I'm also just a bit about the idea that you'd come off of Mumsnet with the first impression "caring and sharing". I'm not saying that there aren't caring, supportive bits of Mumsnet, but how he could miss the ltbs and the bunfights and the parking/bin diagrams I just
don't know...

It's not a Mumsnet-specific thing. Can we really be credited with starting it?

Also, he must never have actually been here.

There's a current thread on here. A guest post from him promoting his book.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/guest_posts/3741791-Guest-post-I-set-out-to-find-out-how-do-women-deal-with-slang-on-their-own-terms

If referring to BoJo as a cuntbungling spunktrumpet is more "caring and sharing", then bring it on

But i think the abbreviations have been around for a lot longer then MN. I often read the D in DH as Dickhead...

I remember reading DH etc long before I found MN, used unironically on some kind of American Flylady affiliated forum back in the day.

I expect he's learnt about the caring, sharing ODFOD by now.

Several times, looking at that guest post thread

Judging by the extent to which he's getting his arse handed to him on that thread I'm surprised he has the nerve to cite Mumsnet. (Not that there's any indication he's come back to read the replies or in any way engage.)

Considering that wankbadger is my most used piece of MN slang... sure, we're all caring fuckers here. Like women are supposed to be.

Not forgetting the ubiquitous Cockwomble.

The DH, DD, Dfuckingeverything thing predates mumsnet. I came across it on US-based pregnancy email lists in 1997 and it wasn't new then. Maybe he needs to do some more research or just shut the fuck up