to think mumsnet has some very easily offended people?

[CartwrightMiss]

I read some posts and and genuinely cannot see a problem.

I honestly wonder how some people manage to step foot out of the house as they get so easily offended.

Aibu?

I wonder about those really stupid posts, like seriously?...or constant repetitive posts...

There's a difference between saying "Yes, using [insert dubious word here] is offensive" and "I am offended by that".

For example, the word 'cunt' does not offend me in the slightest, but I recognise that it is an offensive word.

I was going to quote Stephen Fry but was beaten to it.

Feel free to be offended. I don't really give a fuck. Do let me know, though, if you're head explodes. I'd like to see an actual exploding head just once in my life.

Actually quite like the sound of a gunfight, brutal...

There are some very extreme personality types on this forum who as a consequence are offended by things that seem normal to mainstream society. General the main two types are the ultra-lefties who make Karl Marx look like a Fascist, and the ones who can't go two posts without using the word 'misogynist'.

How dare the OP not capitalise and acronym!!!!

Yanbu. I read some of the offending stuff, am amused and then see someone's got the goat. I think they're either barren of a sense of humour or they're not that offended but like to bash on the internet. Wouldn't give a fuck in RL I bet.

Also, something can be offensive and funny at the same time. The two things are not mutually exclusive.

I've learned over the years that certain things cause offence. Some with good cause and some for no particular reason. I steer clear of the first and ignore the second. I try hard not to be racist/sexist/whatever, but if otherwise my personal opinions offend, tough titties!
MN definitely seems to have more PO nowadays though. It does get a bit wearing.

It makes me smile the way that when someone says something that is a bit beyond the pale, regardless of how obscure or particular the subject matter is there's always a mumsnetter who will pipe up to say that it offends them because of their personal circumstances. You know the kind of thing: "Speaking as a dole bludgeing two-headed person of colour with a diganosis of personality disorder who is 22 stone overweight, that comment offends me".

There was a massive multithreaded discussion on this point a few months ago...I am sorry I cannot link to them on this device...but lots of debate about 'professionally offended' etc.

For myself, people may be easily offended. It does not mean that it is not genuine and justified for them to be so.

And some people have elephant hide

People wouldn't post about something if it wasn't upsetting them.

Saggy has said it better than I could.

That Stephen Fry quote is trotted out too often though. It's the wordier equivalent of someone saying "you just don't have a sense of humour" when they are actually a nasty, bullying twat who nobody else finds funny at all.

They are the opposite of trolls, trolls deliberately seek to cause offence, but these people deliberately seek to take offence. There needs to be a concise and snappy name for them.

Given how much crap he talks these days, I'm not surprised Stephen fry feels it necessary to attack his critics first. He' still full of shit tho

'Poffs'?

'Proffs' even!

Well, the usual pithy name used on mumsnet is 'professionally offended', something I have been called when I said I was offended about a post which was insulting to disabled people. It seems to often be pulled out by people, when someone is accused of being disabilist (or racist or sexist) along with an eyeroll and cries of pc gorn mad and no-one has got a sense of humour anymore.

If we are going to have the professionally offended the what about the professionally unoffended?

DILLIGAFs?

Yy, 'Professionally Offended' usually used on threads about how golliwogs are just lovely black dolls and hark back to a more innocent time and someone knows someone who's black and they're not offended so its all looney left wing councils stopping your children from having fun. Or something.

Karlos agree with you re: Stephen Fry. He's turned into a miserable, moaning old git.

Saggy please can you explain DILLIGAFs? Or give us a clue, I like word puzzles :).

I am totally offended by your post OP.
YANBU.

yy tethersend, or "I don't see why anyone should be offended by the word p*ki, it's just where they're from"