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?

I like the predominantly female vibe here. It really pisses me off when male trolls show up on the relationships board or in the feminism section.

Again though, the perfectly lovely blokes here who don't go round swinging their metaphorical bollocks around are more than welcome. The crackpots should just bog off though.

at 'welcome to the cunts'

Mine ae not metaphorical though.

"Swing low ...."

Is that a technical term for how they are shaped then?

Rugby played by men with metaphorical odd shaped balls?

I like men on MN.

What I find mildly amusing is the reaction some newbie males give when disagreed with or not fallen upon and acclaimed as The Voice Of Reason on a thread. Poor bewildered dears, for some of them it seems to be the first time the horrid women have ever talked back...
:o

I miss retiredgoth :)

Nope

Fancy a scrum.

I miss retiredgoth too. I think he's been waylaid by A Woman

GOML - not half as amazed as I was to learn you were 32.

Good luck by the way. Your DP sounds like a great bloke. Me and DW didnt even start TTC until we were 35.

LadyBlaBlah Fri 14-Jan-11 13:37:25
Are you a man mutznutz?

No

LOL at "swinging their metaphorical bollocks".

Yes, I do think that for people more used to stereotypically "male" online places, like football fora, that the more actively testicular style of argument seems to be the way to win arguments. (Having said that, women are just of capable of metaphorical hoisting of the tackle.)

I've never frequented those places and that's perhaps why, by and large, I fit in here. I've had some robust arguments but my contributions have usually gone down well... Except in the feminist section, which is the only place where I have had anyone ever actually become personally abusive, passive-aggressive and spiteful. As our American chums say, "go figure"...

TheButterflyEffect
Isn't that view kind of counterproductive I have seen often there people saying men need to change etc etc, but you don't want them to comment? I doubt it will get very far then if you have discussions behind closed doors where your target audience will either be oblivious or if interested rejected.

The feminism section isn't that scary, I've learnt a lot from MN mainly that men and women don't understand each other very much.

My favorite quote on the feminist section was:

'I do think that female society would find it quite threatening if there were a large number of single fathers all getting along quite happily and saying 'I'd only want a woman if she had tits and didn't interfere with my cricket'

Which is now my new philosophy on life.

I really have not seen any male posters (to my knowledge) going on threads to have a go at victims (there have been a couple men in the section but they tend to go to threads which are directly about men).

And isn't mumsnet full of supportive women (and men) even so there have been many arguments on sensitive subjects which have been solely between women.

I understand what your saying though, not saying it's wrong space should be respected but just making you aware that if it is change that you are after specifically change in society and men in general it would make sense to come out to discuss otherwise why would anything change when there isn't even a thought that things could be different.

TheButterflyEffect, I don't think I've ever seen a thread on MN where someone asking for support after being raped or abused by men where someone - man or woman - has said that she must have provoked it.

(As an aside, I have seen threads on MN where it's been suggested that men who have been abused by women have provoked it but that's pretty rare.)

YABU. I like having a male opinion on things - and the majority are upfront about the fact that they are male (although dh, who sometimes posts, says he can tell that there are some posters who are male by the way that they write )

I would say men can have a different response and a different way of viewing things. While this makes the dicussion more interesting on some threads, on others a few certain men can be rather aggressive and personal (yes perhaps it is bollock swinging)

So, in summary, I dont mind a few men on here, as long as they play nicely.

I know people think that it is easy to spot a 'male' posting style but it really isnt.

Some people think I am a woman on here.

"There certainly has been a rush of blokes recently onto MN. I'd say its easily risen to 30 or so from a much more manageable 20 in just six short months."

Surely they can just use teacher tactics were the prefect size for a classroom

BeenBeta

I wonder now, if when I was Jamieandhismagictorch, people thought I was man. Never occurred to me until recently. Wonder if it altered people's responses to me?

Beta I've had people (though not yet on MN) assume that I'm a man from the way I write.

Perhaps we should swap posting styles?