To leave MumsNet because it's becoming RadFeministNet?

[SigmundaFraudina]

Had enough of their agenda being forced down my throat whether I want it or not. Major recruitment drive going on lately, and serious opression of other posters views. Just gets worse and worse. This was not what I believed MN was supposed to be about.

I'm off.

Feminists most definitely don't giggle.

I know this for a FACT.

And also, on that relationships thread, I started off with the best of intentions, yes I got heated, because the feminists were being ridiculously over the top, and I mean outrageously ridiculous.

There is nothing you can throw at me re. my posts that I can't explain. I can justify my behaviour, can you?

Yeah but rhinos most of them are male.

I could do cake. I have been on baking and decorating courses.

(smug and pitiful all at the same time)

Shouldn't this be in Flouncers Cormer ?

Why don't you just take a break for a while OP ?

I'm not a radfem, I don't think.

I'm just a normal woman and mum who has a think about stuff and says what she thinks.

Stewie - so glad someone else knows about Hedy - my dad was going on about her and wanted to know why people didn't make a bigger deal about her.

Although my ideas do seem to chime with ideas surrounding fundamental change, I am a lefty too though so these feelings are familiar.

'It's that Radical Feminist Agenda ruining everything. Either that or the International Jewish Conspiracy again. '

Not read the whole thread but this post made me .

nowt wrong with being a man.
'accused' is a bit harsh.

tch now who's the manhater

Well this has opened up from the OP's initial OP, hasn't it? US sitcoms and dungarees. >Am waiting for the dangly earing of the 70's observation, or am I just showing my age.<

I wouldn't dismiss posters' observations about the FS being perceived as a slightly bullying and oppressive place at times. When one feels strongly about stuff, and there are supportive and empathic 'mates' to share with then yes it can become quite an inclusive place, and if you don't post or subscribe to each detail then some regular posters can become quite insistent that you do. But there is a few answers to that circs. Disengage for one. State your view and leave it for others to consider, for another.
I see why at times the FS lose a sense of 'self-awareness' and doesn't see how it is being 'seen' by other, less attached, posters.

I could murder for a chocolate cup cake right now.

Stephen Covey (yes, a man!) posits that a healthy/effective mindset is to "seek first to understand, then to be understood". I often wonder if this is a fundamental problem with feminist/non-feminist threads. Or feminist-who-have-explored-it-in-depth/feminist-who-are-a-bit-more-default threads. I understand the status quo pov because I've lived most of my life thinking that way and it is supported by our cultural cues. But I've changed my thinking (mainly by reading fairly robust writing, but that's for another thread) yet there doesn't seem to be much seeking to understand by those opposed to feminist thinking. It's just opposition and derision. I used to ask loads of questions of those arguing but rarely got any in return. I've stopped asking because my questions were rarely answered. The only one who had a stab at it was DaftPunk in her various guises, actually. Which is bizarre on all kinds of levels.

You've won, though, Rhino, FT et al. I can't be arsed much anymore,

No, Sigmund, you attacked the op, when she was feeling vulnerable. You launched into a full sex-industry-apologist mode on someone's personal thread. Not nice. Then you have the audacity to moan on this thread about how people treat you?

What is a personal thread?

Any thread on MN is a public thread

And as such, everyone has a right to post their opinion.

running, using the word "apologist" is baaaad, Aren't you reading?

depends on the conversation surely.

though tbh I defend anyone's right to not listen to anyone else for any reason at all

That's not very kind mrGin.

Apologist is not an insult.

It is a description.

I am an apologist for women's humanity.

If you make an apologia for somehting, you will be described as an apologist.

You are not quite telling the truth are you Rhino.

You are simmering away about something that someone once said to you without actually considering what it was that was said and why.

If it bothers you that much, why don't you go and start a new thread about it in the feminist section and point to exactly where the quote is that is bothering you so much and argue your case, instead of choosing every opportunity you can, to bang your resentful drum. It may be that you were misunderstood and are due an apology, or that you misunderstood something someone said to you, but at a certain point in time you either have to clear the air about it, or move on.

You can of course, choose to join the usual "wah, feminists are bullies" threads on a regular basis and complain about their bullying, if you prefer. Your call.