to think some of us need to suck it up a bit?

[Maylee]

We're grown women, right? We're mothers raising children. Why, then have some recent posts caused me to despair about the seeming lack of broad shoulders, inner strength, maturity shown by some women?

Examples include:

"my wife was in tears at unprofessional mothercare staff"

"my MiL said boo"

"my MiL folded my clothes"

Will probably get a flaming for this, but just wondering why some women seem so feeble.

(which is the mothercare one?)

Ooh my sister is like this - tiny things are deemed a 'disaster', such as breaking a piece of frozen bread or spilling a bit of water . Her poor dc's are completely neurotic.

Yanbu, my favourite ones are when someones child has benn given a fish finger by a relative or at a party and the op carries on as if someone got them started on a heroin addiction.
I always think 'get a grip'

Sometimes when i read threads i feel that maybe i'm doing something wrong, maybe i'm thick skin, idiot, doormat....Does anyone else feel like this?

I go to the shops or restaurants and i keep saying 'thank you' and i find the service good most of the times, if my mil babysits or cooks (only happens in the summer as she lives abroad) i feel grateful, i find my dc's teachers very good and pleasant and hard working... Then i come here and i think hmmm am i Polyanna or easy to please or idiot?

Can I add to the list of the women and the entitled...

Those who cannot see anything other than their own point of view

And my personal favourite "anyone who does something different to me is only doing it to deliberately criticise me".

You may lump them together as "Self Obsessed" for ease of categorisation but I do think each distinct group has something different to bring to the party so perhaps keep them separate?

We need a 'get a grip' emoticon.

What should we have?

I just did a Google Images search for "get a grip" and it came up with loads of pictures of cows' udders!

List of wimpy women

[custardpie] emoticon

at udders!

If we don't have [hoover] for suck it up, perhaps the option of adding a straw to ?

Totally agree, there was a post on here earlier where there were so many posters agreeing with what to me would be so minor an issue I had to make my comment and leave the site for a while!

There's a million f-ing people out there without a home right now.

Entitled.

Precious.

Pathetic.

Get A GRIP.

Oh yes, and those threads where the poster comes on, asks for advice, gets a unanimous kick up the backside by well-meaning posters and flounces off in a huff because no one backs her up. That happened recently.

Flakey mcflakes.

Arf @ 'get a grip' emoticon .

Oh yes - another one from the past month or so:

"AIBU to not want my PFB DC to have McDonalds at a birthday party?"

ITs fish fingers and chips love, not crack-cocaine. Get a grip .

This website would be a right barrel of laughs if people were only allowed to talk about genuinely life-changingly awful situations.

People are just nattering, why bother getting het up about it?

maybe there could be a [diazepam] emoticon??

I like the iddea of cows udders tho for some reason [udder]

Yeah, got to love the flouncers

Maybe just a 'GAG' acronym? E.g. Oh FFS GAG

Of a sheep emoticon for the bleating

I could give you a biscuit if you were hungry, but I agree with you, some women are just woooses.

or a small shrivelled greyish penis [weakwilly] emoticon?

I remember a thread where OP was furious because someone said 'enjoy your day off' or 'have a nice weekend'.

Some people read too much into small talk and try to find hidden agenda behind each word. Even if you say 'good morning' to them they will say 'are you implying that i am a bad mother and we don't have a good morning?'

I remember that. Someone said at the poster's office said "enjoy your days off" (because the poster worked part time) and she was incandescent!!

A lot of sense posted here!!

I read some posts and think 'feeble'....... I'm raising 5 kids ON MY OWN and draw a lot of strength from the other MNers tho ! So a balance of posters really

I hide loads of 'feeble' threads!

The ones that drive me nuts are the women complaining that their husbands don't help out enough.
Bloody do something about it, then! How have you got yourself in this position. I need to stay off them to preserve my BP mainly because the replies are full of 'well, he's only a man' or 'that's what men are like'. I want to scream NO IT FUCKING ISN'T!

I have read the odd thread on Mumsnet and thought "Jeez, you must have an amazing life if this is all you have got to complain about".

Precious 'child free' bridezillas anyone?