to think that a large minority of Mumsnetters are miserable

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and bitter and choose to make themselves feel better by belittling the lifestyles of others, choice or not. AIBU to be so pissed off by this to begin to despise a large proportion of the female population who think the same way and wish that they might fall off their self built pedestals?

Funny you should say that Panthan seeing as I hid this one for most of the evening to stop myself rising to the bait!

Oooh, sympathy on the wisdom tooth Panthan, I was a martyr to mine (very loudly )

Thankfully the subjects I wouldn't be able to hold myself back on don't come up very often in threads, I can imagine it must really raise your blood pressure if you feel you should be fighting against what you perceive to be total wankers holding opposing views.

And thinking about the serious subjects that might mean, like the way children who have SNs are viewed or racist relatives on fb, some of it is quite understandable.

I try not to take things too seriously but there are some subjects that will get my hackles up (such as racism, disablism and homophobia).

If I'm not up for strongly putting my view across, feeling delicate or a bit pissed, I try not to click on those threads because I know I will go off on one.

It's not that I don't think those subjects aren't important or not worth fighting for, possibly it's that I just think the people thinking such tripe are total tossers and no amount of telling them that will change the way they are.

I don't like the thought of them letting them wind me up, why should they have such an effect on me that I'm getting angry?

Saying that though, if I had to live with something day in day out then maybe I would, and I'm just being selfish and self absorbed not being bothered to write a post about it?

No I get what you mean and I won't always be in the frame of mind to deal with ignorant buggers. And it does get disheartening when you realise that some people really are just tossers.

Makes me feel a bit sad. Obviously there must be people like this in RL or who would write for the Mail but it still makes my heart sink a bit.