Misandry and Mumsnet

Hi @estrogone and thanks for your comments. We do think there’s an important distinction between talking critically about male behaviour including patterns of abuse or misogyny and attacking someone simply because they’re a man.

Mumsnet has always given women quite a lot of room to talk frankly about their experiences, and inevitably some of those conversations are angry or uncomfortable to read. We don’t think the answer is to sanitise them, or to expect women to add NAMALT every time they talk about something that’s happened to them. It’s not a free pass to have a pop at individual posters, and we’re not going to defend a horrible comment simply because the person on the receiving end happens to be male.

There are also quite a few different views being expressed on this thread, including from women who agree with you that some generalisations about men go too far. We think that’s probably healthier than MNHQ trying to decide what everyone is allowed to think about men or women as a whole.

We think it's also worth mentioning that neither misogyny or misandry is currently a hate crime in UK law...

If you see individual posts that you think cross the line, please report them and we’ll take a look.

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Misandry and Mumsnet