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Why do people on mum’s net over analyse conversations or jump to negative conclusions?

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Hunnymonster1 · 21/10/2024 16:48

is it just me but lately I have noticed quite a lot of posts where say somebody might be in a shop and a shopkeeper has said something that majority of people commenting think it’s pretty innocent yet that person over analyses everything that was said to them? Are we now at a point we’re basically nobody can say nothing anymore and literally people fly off the handle over the most stupid things.
That and whenever somebody says something else everybody jumps to the most negative of conclusions like apparently all men are sex abuses waiting to pounce on everybody. The reality is none of this is true. I have never understood this
I don’t know maybe it’s my age of 44, but I’m not really sure what’s going on nowadays. I’m sure we were a lot of let live and carry on. It’s all very manic now and melodramatic and ridiculous when there’s real problems out there. Maybe some of these people posting don’t have real bloody problems and that’s the problem.
is it just me?

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Fourtyfyve · 21/10/2024 18:39

It's not everybody on mumsnet though is it? But people who are a bit sensitive use these boards as a place to rant, or question, or wherever else. So you might get lots of those people joining in on the thread to discuss.

Other forum users are also available. Often elsewhere and joining in very different threads. But it's the nature of message forums to appeal to people who don't have many friends ( for many and varied reasons) or suffer from anxiety or have trauma. And then if you read the analysing conversation threads you'll see other more moderate voices.
Sometimes, posters are so beaten down by life ( or family/partners) that they really don't know which way is up. They don't see patterns of abuse that others clearly see.
No need for sweeping statements like the OP, imo

Hunnymonster1 · 21/10/2024 18:40

Garlicbest · 21/10/2024 18:33

I stopped reading the driving instructor thread because of your repeated replies, @Hunnymonster1.

Now you've started a whole new fulmination to continue your supposed incredulity that a man offering free tuition to a very young woman as a mutual favour, while refusing to divulge the terms of engagement, is viewed with suspicion.

I'm taking a guess that you have never been a young woman.

Also maybe because I am ugly sho fricking knows but I have never had men abuse me or really do anything that I couldn’t handle but we seem to live in a world where so many women seem very suspicious of men straight away. I understand there are dodgy men but never have I seen anywhere like mumsnet that really dog on men

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Hunnymonster1 · 21/10/2024 18:42

Fourtyfyve · 21/10/2024 18:39

It's not everybody on mumsnet though is it? But people who are a bit sensitive use these boards as a place to rant, or question, or wherever else. So you might get lots of those people joining in on the thread to discuss.

Other forum users are also available. Often elsewhere and joining in very different threads. But it's the nature of message forums to appeal to people who don't have many friends ( for many and varied reasons) or suffer from anxiety or have trauma. And then if you read the analysing conversation threads you'll see other more moderate voices.
Sometimes, posters are so beaten down by life ( or family/partners) that they really don't know which way is up. They don't see patterns of abuse that others clearly see.
No need for sweeping statements like the OP, imo

Absolutely you r right look I’m not saying it’s everybody and I’m not saying about really hard hitting conversations that are really sad because I am also alone. I don’t really have any friends and I am disabled. I’m not even talking about anxiety because I suffer from mental health myself what I am talking about is when some people to me I suppose the word is seems a little bit precious over some like silly mundane really why would you even get upset over that about? That’s what I’m talking about and I don’t know whether people just wanna put stuff so they can speak because sometimes I look at it and go what the hell?

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Jessie1259 · 21/10/2024 18:44

Qncts · 21/10/2024 17:13

Having just seen the other thread you’re talking about, of a driving instructor in his 50s offering free lessons to a 19 year old, which he needs to explain in person for mysterious reasons, calling her hun and putting kisses in texts…. Er, no. That’s not over analysing, that’s life experience and common sense.

This.
That is not being 'hypersensitive'.

Hunnymonster1 · 21/10/2024 18:45

Jessie1259 · 21/10/2024 18:44

This.
That is not being 'hypersensitive'.

No but the charity shop worker one was defo. That driving instructor post was more negative about the man straight away that’s what I am on about

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Heresoneimadearlier · 21/10/2024 18:46

Hunnymonster1 · 21/10/2024 18:28

lol the thing is it’s not negativity per say it’s this why did she say this when a person might have said something that sounds so innocent that gets me very hyper sensitive just lately

A 19 year old single woman who has been sent inappropriate texts by her 50 year old driving instructor with offers of free lessons in exchange for something he won’t reveal until he sees her in person, yes she should be hyper sensitive and hyper vigilant, the fact that has to be spelled out to you here and on that thread is concerning.

Fourtyfyve · 21/10/2024 18:48

Hunnymonster1 · 21/10/2024 18:42

Absolutely you r right look I’m not saying it’s everybody and I’m not saying about really hard hitting conversations that are really sad because I am also alone. I don’t really have any friends and I am disabled. I’m not even talking about anxiety because I suffer from mental health myself what I am talking about is when some people to me I suppose the word is seems a little bit precious over some like silly mundane really why would you even get upset over that about? That’s what I’m talking about and I don’t know whether people just wanna put stuff so they can speak because sometimes I look at it and go what the hell?

You're only looking at it from your own point of view. The beauty of mumsnet is being able to see such a range of opinions

Hunnymonster1 · 21/10/2024 18:51

Fourtyfyve · 21/10/2024 18:48

You're only looking at it from your own point of view. The beauty of mumsnet is being able to see such a range of opinions

Totally agree diverse opinions my point is maybe as I have always felt this in life you do get a lot of prissy folk that seem to not take comments very well seem up themselves and it seems to me a lot reside on here again m6 opinion

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