To get annoyed at the lack of empathy being shown by some many posters at the moment?

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No I know IANBU, but I am stunned by some of the posters on here at the moment. Mumsnet has turned into the opinion pages of the Daily Mail.

Maybe it's pressure and stress in people's life. When it's getting worse and you still have to maintain your polite and agreeable self with others Internet unfortunately provides an opportunity to be as mean and aggressive as people really want to be. Some posters hunt in packs and they just amplify each other.

Don't want people to be nicer, just have some bloody empathy.

Classics gin am i the only one who didn't cry with laughtr?

I'm not always polite and agreeable here or anywhere else. But I'm not a goady namechanger who changes their name to post vitriolic shite and lies.

I think empathy has to be fostered from a very early age so that it becomes a habit of mind and almost automatic. It's all about influencing children in their first, formative years and teaching that certain attitudes and actions are good and desirable and others the opposite. It' s not difficult to find opportunities and examples in every day life - and books - where children can be invited to put themselves in other people's shoes and imagine what they are feeling. Done often enough and youngsters will internalise these leaps of sympathy and fellow-feeling and, with luck, adopt the habit of empathy for life.

tbh MN IS pretty much the same as the daily mail comments section,and it has a reputation for being full of middle aged right wing bitter old women.DH was really surprised when i first came on here,he didnt think it would be my scene at all,and actually its not in a lot of ways but i find myself addicted to it a little bit!

I dont think there have been racist or disablist threads, its just your interpretation. what i have noticed is that there are a lot of angry posts and angry posters of many political persuasions. tbh i have found the PC brigade the most intolerant and nasty/swearing.

I do think alot if angry self-righteous people come on here to get their rocks off at anyone for the most trivial or intangential reasons though, which is a bit crappy (remember nigella lawson, I'm surprised Satchi wasnt executed that very day such was the mob response) but i think MN has always attracted this. i try to look for the gold in the junk, and thats there too.

When I used to come on here regularly, I am sure MN was much more left wing.

PC brigade? I have seen blatant racism on here many times over the last few weeks.

There is disablism on a current thread.

It isn't just my interpretation. If that was so, many posts wouldn't have been deleted for a start.

Ring a ring - bitter, middle aged old women eh? You and your husband sound so young, and yet so unthinking and offensive.

I want the PC brigade dominating MN

PC Brigade. Oh dear. Sorry, if anything sounds incredibly Mailite, that does.

I never saw what you or saw or said deleted threads.

Just read some terrible disablist comments on a thread. Forget the Daily Mail, more The Sun standard.

thats not what i think,thats what people in general seem to think of MN.in rl and in the press.

TVM Lotta

Pc brigade. Oh yes - mailesque.

My bugbear is the ones who pile in saying "oh that's definitely suspicious/ unacceptable/ red flag you must immediately LTB". People don't say that in real life, they are more nuanced, but we have far too many keyboard warriors on here.

I thought we were all supposed to be liberal boden wearing thirty somethings?

No, but they think it Johnny.

Pc brigade is shorthand for people with knee jerk reactions , including calling other people racist and disablist when they are not, because of a self-rigteous and mistaken belief that people who dont agree with them need to be insulted and ridiculed. The lack if tolerance, thinking or understanding is sometimesbreath-taking. on a satirical level Dave Spart but sadly v. real.

But there are racists. There are disablists. Are you denying they exist just because you haven't witnessed them?

The disablist stuff was nasty, but the right wing stupidity was in the minority on the thread. Don't despair yet, the Penis Beaker storm will pass over and goady twats hopefully find a more comfortable home elsewhere.

This is the first forum I've frequented that has so regularly bemoaned it's own shitness. Is it just me, or is MN shit this week? Is it just me, or insert something about dullards here? OMG you're all a bunch of goady troll bastards OMG? I'm telling on you - Justiiiiine...

Ok but seriously now. Seriously. Mumsnet IS NOT mandatory. There ARE other things. Like Outside, for one. Or any other Internet forum.

I've noticed a fair bit of sniping, sarcasm, PA comments and some downright rudeness over the last week or so. Must be the weather.