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To have really lost respect for Jenni Murray

134 replies

Mumsex · 26/10/2013 14:58

NC specially for this.

DM article today (not linking to those cunts) in which she reckoned some things should not be shared even anonymously on sites such as Mumsnet. She also thinks we should be renamed "Mumsex" and questioned how pleased we would be if our male partners were talking about intimate details of our sex live and swearing on line, even anonymously.

I don't know about everyone else, but my DH is a big boy and might swear on the internet. I doubt he discusses our sex life, but if it was anonymous and he did to make someone laugh, or to help them, so what?

Jenni is shocked, even with all her knowledge of women's history Grin at the swearing and the fact we share details of weirdest places we have had sex amongst other things. We also advice people to LTB at every little problem and some things should be kept in the bedroom.

Jenni, you silly cow, Mothers (they are women, you know) are as sexual as men. The chat on here and advice given has helped me have more orgasms in the last 4 moths than I have ever had in my life. That is a biggie to me. I know other Mothers (ie, women) have been helped in this way too. Should we be ashamed of liking sex, of wanting to find out more, of finding it funny, of wanting to compare notes anonymously?

LTB is not trotted out at every occasion, the pervasive tone of relationships is "take no shit". Is that so hard to understand? I thank my lucky stars every day for my DH, but I know if I had to put up with half of what is cited on some of the relationship threads, I would rather be (and would be) on my own.

So IABU is saying, STFU Jenni, and take your censorious attitude back to the 50's. I for one, won't STFU. Nice attempt to silence mothers again, and put them back in their place.

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Pan · 28/10/2013 09:29

Though I agree there is far too much casual swearing and foul language here, which reflects badly on the site and the posters who type them, and I wish they would all just stop it.

ajandjjmum · 28/10/2013 09:36

I thought it was obviously a result of 'Jenni, please write an article slating Mumsnet'. She had to scrabble round to find the mucky bits - and so what if she did, no-one is forced to read them!

It does seem pretty hypocritical though when 'being open about stuff' is what she has always encouraged.

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 28/10/2013 09:57

Curlew cunt used to be used as a purely descriptive word. In medieval medical books . It had changed for misogynistic reasons to be a word for insult. I don't see why a word referring to my genitalia hould be so much 'worse' that one referring to male genitalia. What's the worst word you can think of for a penis? Well cunt should have no more shock value than that.But it will if we let it so I think it's time to reclaim it. Gently and slowly. And MN is a start.

thezoobmeister · 28/10/2013 11:11

I use the C word several times a day in RL but never on here. We should consider the feelings of all those poor journos assigned the MN beat...

trish5000 · 28/10/2013 11:23

Are there sex threads on gransnet? Last time I looked, admittedly 6 months ago, it was mainly about exercise and grans not being allowed to see their grandchildren. Off to check it out.

ZingWantsCake · 28/10/2013 11:35

I never heard of her until two days ago.
she lost me at helloGrin

trish5000 · 28/10/2013 11:38

ooh. It looks like it has had a makeover since I last looked. And there appears to be far more posters now. It was a bit like home from home, but their topics seem better organised than on here.
Didnt see much sex there today, but it does come up in conversation there. Obviously really, Jenni Murray.

Mumsex · 28/10/2013 12:14

I think this thread has already been a teeny-tiny opposing force to all the crap, trying to get us to shut in up the media. As a result of my baring my soul/making a show of myself on here, I've already had two messages from women asking about sex and orgasms. I think its really sad to try to stop people talking about sex, whether its to help another person out or to make someone laugh. How can that be harmful? If people don't want to see sex chat, no-one is forcing them, by pinning their eyelids open and putting them in front of MN.

Dang, I missed Womans Hour. I could have phoned in and told her off on air.

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SilverOldie · 28/10/2013 12:20

Her article was shabby. If she had spent longer than 2 minutes on here she could have written about how hugely supportive people are and the massive help and advice people receive when they are going through terrible things happening in their lives.

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