to think men seem to have taken to MN in their droves recently......and I don't like it

[LadyBlaBlah]

Every thread I go on, there are men putting forward their opinion

I have enough of men in RL. AIBU thinking they should bog off to DN or go play the X Box or something?

All the women should name change to men and vice versa just to really annoy the OP

Oh well. Old Dazz turned out to be a bit dull in the end. Or else Helen threatened him.

Who else you got MNHQ?

GOML - here's your tea, sorry for the pregnant pause whilst it was being sorted out - and a nice big fat slice of chocolate cake too.

MrSpoc - I suppose we could each do designated days or specific topics. Maybe even some well organised man-to-woman marking might work or contentious threads. Personally, I prefer to do floating cover late evening early hours of the morning but only on particular topics mind.

Newbie blokes would have to do the unpopular early morning shifts and learn the ropes in Feminism for a bit. We'd need a shop steward. Probably UQD - he reads the Guardian so he knows all about collective action.

If you don't notice that they're men then I think it's great!

Domesticated

Righty-oh!

Who was that bloke who coined the phrase "sausaged the back out of her" (or something similar. I liked him, he was weird funny.

@sexydomesticateddab ......... don't think we need to do anything to annoy OP ..... she appears to have her knickers in a knot in any case

Been mooching around here for nearly 8 years (when DD was born) and no intention of leaving but don't ever go near Feminism!

Shouldn't that be 'boxers bunched up'?

Trill Agree totally. I have made the same observations myself before It's the endless spew of information - you can almost see the dot matrix printer whirring away

DameShirley Really?

Oh, and men are fine by me. I mostly don't notice apart from the obvious ones. And some of the best advice i got on here was from a man.

I was once accused of being a hairy fisted truck driver in some shed too once - seems you got there before me.

'Well, they're a bit like pheasants, most of them. They go wandering and clucking over to Feminism and get run over and squashed'

That made me chuckle.

I don't like sexism of any kind.

about the gender of any poster. If they make a valuable contribution whether it funny, challenging, supportive, advocatial or generally just amenable chatty it matters not.

I am personally a little more reserved about certain things if I am aware of men on a thread but that is my issue, not because I find them offensive.

I have as well got some fantastic advice from a man here. They're all welcome, apart from the trolls, as far as I am concerned.

i'm now worried everyone will think i'm a man

Oh Ladyblablah, I know exactly what you mean.

For example, this charming reply I got from so called "niceguy"

"I can summarise for him. You are wrong. He is right.
Is that concise enough for you?"

So rude! The previous poster had written a post that was 2 pages long. Thats a problem with some men in real life, they like the sound of their own voice too much.
Although it was funny that "niceguy" identified the long winded poster as male!

So, while some men that post on here make interesting contributions to the debate, others are rather unpleasant.

Well, you did say you were one, Astra.

Oh dear, this hasn't gone quite the way you thought has it, why don't you repost in the feminism topic, i think you'll be alot happier with the response you get there

BeenBeta: interesting idea to let the newbies learn the ropes in Feminism... would that be as in "enough rope hang selves"?

More like a chasterdy belt.

Is it more like in Toy Story 3 where the new toys have to go the the playroom where all the kids are really rough with them? If you survive get let into the nicer _chat section?

lol, nobody has ever before told me to go boil my head, the poster in question called me IT as well, and said I was mumsnet mafia!

re full bladder.

Beta I was amazed yesterday at you thinking (a) I was old and (b) thinking I was middle class cos live in Cheltenham

Mumsnet Mafia?!

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