To cringe when thread titles have threats of violence in them?

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I know it's just a figure of speech and that people don't mean they actually want to slap/punch/knock out their husbands/partners or whatever...but does that mean it's OK? Would it be OK on a men's forum for there to be titles like 'I just want to punch my wife for letting the kids make a mess' or whatever. (Tried there to not make the title too similar to anything that has been posted, I'm uncomfortable about all off them, but not judging the content, IYSWIM)

Or am I being really precious about it? I think the words we choose matter, but am not always very good at expressing myself...

oh ffs, is it this thread you are talking about? The one where the op got bollocked by a load of self righteous posters for saying she felt like punching her husband in the nose?

YANBU at all. It makes me wince, and it makes me like MN a little bit less for a little while every time I see one.

It also makes me feel that the OP is BU by default.

I made a thread a few weeks back, detailing how much I wanted to slap my neighbour-from-hell right in the fisog. To be fair to myself, it was 3am and she had woken me and DS with her caterwauling and shrieking.

Needless to say, there were two or three MNers on there saying that they couldn't sympathise with me since I was obviously a vile thug. Hyperbole is obviously a new concept on some of you.

Now stop whining before I knock you out. :)

Some of these posts are enough to make me swear and DH calls me 'Miss Jean Brody' . I'd rather the OP vent via their pc than to their partners faces in front of their children. Is anger never acceptable then? I'm farked then.

Hyperbole. That was the word i was looking for!!

God my life is total hyperbole . Tis my middle name.

Oh if I type it, it usually means I am going to punch his lights out......truthfully....I have rather a nifty left which has been known to connect from time to time...DP knows to give me space if he has wound me up enough for me to threaten violence...

I would be flattened if it were the other way around...He's built like a brick privvy!!!

I never read threads with threats of violence in the title. I think they are repulsive so ignore them.

I might make an exception to that rule if the threat of violence is against me.

Goodness. Some of you are such prisses that I'm surprised that your fragile constitutions allow you to even look at AIBU...

FWIW, I've never seen a thread with a threat of violence in the title. I've seen plenty expressing a desire (real or imagined. Usually imagined) for violence. Never a threat.

I must congratulate cupcakes on the use of 'prissy'. Lovely word.

YANBU, and I'll deck anyone who says otherwise.