Common assumptions some Mumsnetters jump to

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I find that there are certain trigger words that seem to elicit a certain type of response on Mumsnet.

If someone asks about sleep training, many posters assume that the OP is referring to cry it out, with endless posts about sleep training is just 'teaching a baby that nobody will come when they cry'. This is in spite of the many different ways of sleep training, many of which involve the parent staying with the child or very close by.

I've also seen a few times that posters who take an interest in current trends are perceived as simpletons who take all of their existing clothes and burn them on a big pyre, then replace the lot with a massive haul from shien, every year. No concept of adding in new pieces here and there to adapt to your current wardrobe.

Finally I've also noticed the misconception that it takes half an hour to do your make up in the morning, and many posters would rather have that extra 30 minutes in bed. I've seen posters explain time and again that it takes them 5 minutes to put make up on, but the myth that the poster gets up at 5 am to do her make up because it's so time consuming persists.

Just a little musing I thought of recently. Anyone else notice common conclusions you see people jump to on mumsnet? I'm sure gentle parenting is another!

Tbh I haven't seen this. Just the reality that the porn industry has many trafficked and cohersed women working in it and you don't know who they are.

As a an aside all the men I have slept with that watch lots of porn have been shit in bed! They cant seem to be good a passion just some bad moves they've seen.

Not in all cases.

I love my blow up man who irons tops. The trouser one looks even more fun.

• "Can you move house?" to solve any problem.
• Everybody takes shoes off in their home: this is a "global standard".
• Nobody answers their front door.
• That cats are evil mouse and bird murderers, aided and abetted by humans who let them go outside without a bell, or let them out at all. (Cats are natural predators!)
• Workmen must never use a customer's toilet, because they shit nuclear waste, or they might perve over things in the bathroom.
• Any Christian or "otherwise intelligent person" who goes to church is "deluded", "has an imaginary friend", "is in with the fairies", "must be kept away from my DCs, because they might indoctrinate them".
• (On some threads): that Nigel Farage is a knight in shining armour who will run through those pesky immigrants with a lance, and have Keir Starmer begging for mercy.