MN rules for life - shame edition

[Over40Overdating]

There have been so many bonkers threads lately where OPs have been shamed for what most people in real life would considered normal that I think some MNetters live in an alternate universe.

Shaming people for relatively normal things is off the charts right now.
I’ve got a list of things I now look out for on threads to play rules bingo - please add your MN bingo rules for life: shame edition!

• if you drink alone or at home, you have a drinking problem

• drinking whilst being a parent? JAIL

• express an opinion or anger about violence against women and girls - you are a misandrist and a man hater cos NAMALT

• Got a sex life that is not vanilla but harms no one? You should have more respect for yourself, you harlot

• Like to eat food that isn’t green and in larger portions than matchbox size? You are ‘scoffing’ and ‘gorging’ on rubbish, piggy

• Got a twatty partner who does things to drive you mad? Have you looked at yourself to see why you are causing this?

• Need to go no contact with toxic family or parents? You only get one mother / father and should take any shit they throw at you because someone who has no experience of abuse or family dysfunction thinks you sound selfish and childish. And didn’t you know some people have dead parents and you are being SO disrespectful to them?

• If you have an overbearing or interfering MIL you need to keep your mouth shut because you might be a MIL one day and how would you feel if your DIL talks about you this way?

What have I missed?

Just opinions, not shaming. Cool off and get healthy

Also as a childless woman I can never have an opinion on anything child related because it’s not my business and I should find my own space to chat, and be jealous elsewhere.

If that space exists, it must welcome all women because excluding mothers is biased and sharing any positive stories on being child free/less is gloating and we aren’t really happy we are just jealous.

And as a childless women over 40 I should realise I am past it and expect to die alone whereas a man my age is in his prime and swinging it all round town, as is his biological destiny.

I chortled at this thread, then looked at one where OP's mother has offered to do paid cleaning for her. Apparently this would be AWFUL because OP's mum would have unfettered access to all OP's " private spaces".

Dip in your libido post baby. It’s your fault if your husband cheats on you!

@XenoBitch I do blame everything on peri, to be fair…

You’re also not allowed to post in the mumsnetters without children board without someone with kids ALWAYS butting into a thread explaining it from a mum’s pov, no matter how many times the op has said they wand to hear from childfree people.

You don't change the sheets on your bed every single day? 🤢🤮 You lazy slattern!

Your husband should never have a coffee or a drink after work with a female colleague. If he feels the need for female company he should come home to you.

Anyone calling house on this…

If you live in a 3 bedroom house with your DH and 2 DC and your DH has a DD from a previous relationship who now lives with her Mum in Australia and comes to stay for a fortnight once a year, your SDD must be given her own bedroom in your house. If you allow anyone else to use that room for any other purpose during the other 50 weeks of the year, you are a wicked stepmother.

Oh, if you dare to rescue your gran from a burning building instead of a stranger's child, then you are selfish and lacking any morals. And your gran is selfish for letting you rescue her.

If you are not a mum, then wHY ARe U oN MUmsNeT?

Did you mean to be so rude?

If you wish to get opinions on a dress you like, be sure to post the ugliest and most expensive one possible. To be ideal, it should be shapeless, monotone in colour and ideally, cost your yearly wage.

When asking if a certain dress is suitable to wear to a wedding, never ever post a dress that in colour other than navy blue as you will be trying to upstage the bride. Fancied a nice floral dress? Oooh no there is way too much white in between those flowers on the fabric, how very dare you do that to the bride. Pink, of course you can't wear pink. It's nearly white, why do you insist on upstaging the bride. Wear a sack instead OP. A nice bit of brown hessian will look grand.

@Aydel opposite sex friendships do not exist. They are always a precursor to cheating!

But in cases where there’s evidence of cheating, never tell the partner because you are ruining lives and being reckless.

And, btw
No is NOT a complete sentence.
It's a syllable

@RockyRogue1001 why are you so angry? #BeKind.

If you bought a HA or ex council flat you are a total loser and you don't deserve to be called a normal human no matter do you work or are on benefits or whatever. Only Londoners are allowed to feel normal humans for living in the same size flats for 2 millions the sq m

Oh but grans are always selfish you know, that's why they never deserve winter fuel payments. All mumsnet elderly relatives are living on the fat of the land, it seems.

Is it still just a syllable if you add a tinkly laugh?

@Ifoughthefight you are single-handedly responsible for the housing crisis for refusing to turn down the chance of home ownership and not giving it to someone else.

If gran managed to set her house on fire to begin with, then giving her the WFA was irresponsible. She can't be trusted with all that piped in gas and her polyester nighties.

This is so silly.

Mumsnet is not a collective, it is not a hive mind. Replies on any particular thread are just from people who happen to be around on that day and see it and feel like answering. Mumsnet attracts users from all sectors of society and all over the world.

I note that on all sorts of social media, people who post (the OPs) only cling onto the negative comments. There can be 49 positive comments and 1 negative and suddenly that negative is "the reaction".

Everyone just needs to get a fucking grip and grow up. Seriously. None of it is real. Who CARES what "Mumsnet thinks". Care what your family and friends think, forget about anonymous people on a website!

If you’re on benefits, you’d better not: have children, buy anything that isn’t food, complain about anything ever, be fat, have tattoos, have an untidy house/garden, watch more than one hour of tv a year, have self esteem, and most importantly you must not enjoy yourself in any way, fun is not allowed for the poor.

Perhaps consider donning a hair shirt and practicing self- flagellation x

Spot-on.

Grans as a breed are not to be trusted, unless for unpaid childcare which they would be very selfish not to offer.

@TeaAndStrumpets all old people are loaded and just sitting on millions that their hardworking children should have inherited by now to buy their forever home/put Jonty and Minty through private school.
And if those cheeky old gimmers have the audacity to go on holiday? Buy a new car? Enjoy their old age? YANBU to ask if you can euthanise the robbing bastards.

All old people are also living saints and can’t be criticised.