To find Matt Rudd's description of MNers a bit rude?

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Sunday Times Culture section today, page 7. He does say "I love Mumsnet". But then goes on to describe it as "lots of enthusiastic yet slightly mad, hormonal women rabbiting on about things they'll forget five minutes later" .

Whilst parts of this, on occasion, could be true, I did find it fairly patronising, and maybe a bit sexist, as if this were the sum total any of us had to contribute.

i would say, on balance, his description is mostly accurate.

cheeky fecker. Like every conversation he has is incredibly cerebral.

"hormonal" is a very sexist term in this context. FWIW levels of hormones in men fluctuate throughout the day, yet no-one ever accuses THEM of being hormonal.

He must have read my best and most important posts this week

edam i often tell my DH he is hormonal! He suffers severely from Pre Moon Fever too honestly, it is just the same!

I note that Mr Rudd wrote a mans guide to MN in February 2010.

You know what they say. Those that can do, those that can't just write about it.

Pavlov

bit rude but hey - he's a male journo - he needs to find an angle.

I object to 'hormonal'.
He is also wrong, so wrong, about us forgetting things 5 minutes later.
Us MNers never forget.
That is the point.
We never forget and we never forgive.

otherwise he is right though, we are all barking.
I always find it vaguely surprising when I go to a meet-up and everyone appears lovely & normal.

I think it's the word Rabbiting that really rankles. As a child I was frequently told to "stop rabbiting on" in response to my constant chattering natural friendliness.

Possibly still traumatized...

I don't think its like that at all

well he will be forgotten in a few minutes then...

Oh I remember that man's guide to MN... "One thing I can conclude is that men should be careful. Behind every woman are, potentially, a thousand other women. And quite a lot of them have their arms crossed angrily."

I wasn't offended. However, we are seeing more and more of this.

Should any of the readers of the Sunday Times wish to know Mumsnetters' views on something, they can look at Mumsnet for themselves.

Therefore I do think that someone who is paid to write a review of a TV programme and fills the last half column with quotes from a website that cost him all of two clicks, must be a pretty shit writer.

Matt, I just know you are reading, you are quite welcome to use this particular quote of mine, for nothing, in your paid work.

Well he has got me spot on 7

Don't take it seriously!

Yanbu! How infuriating to think that we should be described as.... sorry I seem to have forgotton why I came into this thread I think I came up to close the window..

Who is he?

not far wrong except the forgetting about it 5 minutes later - MN would be a lot quieter if we could just forget

he doesn't know about the spreadsheets

haha! I had forgotten all about posting on this!

not sexist,is v funnny and pretty accurate

"... Behind every woman are, potentially, a thousand other women. And quite a lot of them have their arms crossed angrily."

Now that I do like

He forgot the rolling pins though.

and the (Cath Kidston) flowery pinnies

I have a Cath Kidston tent

and tea towels, pinnies, ironing board cover (unused) etc