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[MrMan]

right... AIBU to sometimes think it would be good to rename MN as gender-neutral, e.g. ParentsNet?

Yes.

Don't think that would work...I'm pregnant so not technically a parent yet. Some people on here are trying to conceive or have no kids, etc. You can't please all the people all of the time.

YANBU. Have some :)

but it was set up by mums.....

'Set up by mums by taken over by men as soon as it started being socially important-Net'.

Fuck.

'Set up by mums BUT taken over by men as soon as it started being socially important-Net.'

I can see where you are coming from OP, but the name 'mumsnet' is quite famous now so I think it would be too late to change. I assume it started lif as a forum for mums?

*life

Once something becomes traditional and entrenched, it's pretty hard to get people to change, even if they'd make a different decision if starting from square one...

Is there a nunsnet? They should totally have one.

Mr Marks and Mr Spencer and Mr Sainsbury are all dead yet the shops are still named after them. Why change a good brand name?

Yorkie Bars still trade on the strapline "Not for Women" but we don't let that stop us getting at the chocolate

YummyParents wouldn't sound so good when they're slagging us off on the news.

But, in principle, YANBU.

You know, Orbinator, I really wish I didn't like Yorkies...

'Bumsnet' would be gender neutral, and reflect the posters into the bargain.

Or how about Scrumsnet?

MrMan - nope. Been argued endlessly in the past. Never going to happen. You know what women are like once they make up their mind.

'Slumsnet'? For when AIBU swallows up the rest of the boards.

With all the biscuits I've seen on here recently it has to be Crumbsnet!

Nobody is going to allow the name to be changed when publicity for Mumsnet is involved, are they? Branding and all that. I think it should stay as it is anyway. If men are posting on it then it obviously doesn't matter to them what it's called.