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?

Even if you were to set up a "Women's Only" web-site, hwo would you know that the posters really were women?

This is the internet: posters are anonymous and some of them could be aliens for all we know

The only way to be aboslutely sure would be to demand meet-ups before someone is accepted. Which sort of defeats the purpose.

Some are okay, some are not. One just told dittany she was being "disrespectful" towards him

I wonder if MNHQ ever look at the stats for how many regular female and male posters (or, at least, whichever sex they claim to be) they get on the site? My wild stab in the dark estimate would be around 100:1.

she was more dignified than I could ever be!

safe space what a crock of keech.mn public forum accessible to all.if you want safe space and hug the elephant,go join a therapeutic community

I like the resident misogynysts we get, because then you can point at them whenever a normal MNer wonders whether feminism is necessary or not

misogynists
gah
I should be able to spell it by now

"normal" mumsnetter.lol who made you the adjudicator of normality

good point, misogynists are also normal
we're all normal
Let's all just get along

normal is highly subjective

agreed

LadyBlaBlah 14-Jan-11 13:45 - "I like a place where men don't change the tone."

Does that mean "have a different viewpoint" ?
If so, YABU.

"I like it when men come to the feminism section ...."

I don't know whether my views come across as misogynistic but if I ever stray into a thread in the feminism section, I expect my English comprehension to be thoroughly tested, and every sentence I write to be ripped to threads by one poster, who appears to be a man-hater.

" They only last a thread."

Challenging it may be, but this is like being put in a dungeon and prepared for torture, so my hat goes off to any man who bothers to go back a second time.

I don't mind the men too much (and yes I have noticed sharp increase in last few weeks).

What I dislike vehemently is the misogyny among some of them.

But not all of them are like that.

There might be something to be said for having a mainly femal forum though...men's only clubs and women's only clubs.

I have nothing against it - a bit like smoking pubs and non smoking pubs. If you have a choice, that is - and this is one of the best forums, I just hope it doesn't start to take on a misogynistic tone like SO many other forums have. That would be dreadful.

This isn't the fault of most men. This is due to a large number of the old guard who were brought up with very pervasive sexism and can't help feeling an internet forum is not the place for a woman.

I've left a few forums because of it. So I think we need to watch that. But hopefully with the proportions currently as they are it's a long way off.

Apart from some very odd posters who don't stay long I've not noticed any misogynistic posters. if by Misogyny you mean women hating.

Or is the patriarchy (which I still don't quite get) blinding me.?

I know why it bothers me. There are some brilliant men among us and very helpful and useful and nice and equitable and totally non misogynist.

Like ABD and some others for example. what scares me is that other men who are nOT so equitable (is that the right word?) I mean treating us as equals, might see there are men here and think they can comeover with their lads and their casual sexism and take over.

that is what frightens me.

I don't think droves of men will come and post on MN I'm the only man I know who has even heard of it.

honestly, I LOL at the beautiful onomatopeia of "Fathers4Justice Fruitcake"

SOme women are misogynists as well

Some men are so impressive that you think they're a feminist woman until they say something that makes you realised they're male

not- onomatopeia... another word.
ANyway,
nice turn of phrase

Alliteracy I think.

Good points Sakura. But if a person is a misogynist s/he will naturally gravitate towards other men as s/he thinks they are better. So letting in just one of them is a risk.

Truck, it's the odd posters that I'm talking about. There's an odd "visitor" right now on one of the Feminist threads.