To wonder why there are men posting here?

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The website is called MUMSnet. Not dadsnet or parentsnet, but MUMSnet. Most people who post here are female so why men would even want to post here is beyond me. It's even creepier when they don't have any kids.

Gruntfuttock & Diaduit

Please tell me you're not serious with that spelling

Probably comments like that why I do not post very often. Very unnecessary comment, not everyone has a a high level of English grammar, nor a high self esteem to not get upset at being take the piss out of, yes I know I am clearly on the wrong site, lesson learnt.

Drivingmisslazy
Don't feel like you can't post here. Sure there are spelling and grammar pedants (I am one but I try not to be a twat about it) but they don't run the site.
I have to say though the expression is 'point of view' as in the perspective they are looking from. I said that to be helpful, please take it that way and not as me being rude.

Maybe 'point of you' was a clever play on words. DrivingMissDaisy, you make a good point. We shouldn't pick on things like that, and tolerance of bullying doesn't make for an inclusive forum.

I agree. I am lucky to have a brain that is wired in such a way that I can use language pretty well. It bugs me when official signs etc. contain dodgy spelling/grammar but it annoys me more when I see superior self-important MNers picking on another poster who has posted something that contains errors. I think that it is very brave to post if you know that writing is not your art. Don't go anywhere driving. Your comments are as valid as any others.

It's wrong to pick holes in people's grammar and spelling.

Unless the poster has just done it themselves, in which case, dig in!

I would not want to be with the kind of man who spent his evenings reading and posting on mumsnet. So I think op has a point.

Tiggy
Mumsnet is my shed
Its where I go when I retreat from the worlddh
Op, do you never talk to the menz in real life?
Some people are just weird
And we luffs them all here on mumsnet except the poo troll

And when my exh posted a thread on here (about our relationship) yes, it was creepy.

"Mumsnet is my shed"

They should put that on the Tshirts!

What kind of man is ot that spends his evenings on mn then? Maybe dp should leave me as thats what I spend some of my evening doing. Or is that ok because im not a man ?

Drivingmisslazy....It might make you feel better to know that one of the posters pointing out your one spelling mistake has made eleven spelling and grammar mistakes on this thread alone.

Don't you just love it when that happens?

So Mumsnet is a 'lady-thing' is it Brass? Do you have a doily under you keyboard?

Have any of you got male partners who use this site?

Glad I haven't any more

I couldnt care less what sites dp chooses to use

Bassnotreble, I think you've name changed.
But anyway, if I'm honest, I think if enough posters felt the same way as you, I'd stop posting.

God I would.

I would much prefer to be with a man who was engaging in intelligent, articulate debate and discussion on a variety of topics and who was able to have a laugh and a joke too than to be with someone who was glued to his xbox all night, breaking off only to look at some tits and fannys and check the footie score.

Good point Vital, I agree with that!

I read the thread too quickly. I didn't realise Panthingies was Pan. I read the user name as Pant-Hinges. Hinged pants sounds a lot dodgier than stained vests.

As you were...

BassNoTreble let me spell it out for you. There's men on MN who are here because of the TTC threads, some who come here for information about parenting or relationships (not all have a life partner) and there's those whose wives used to post on MN and they died, and their DHs joined MN for occasional support. All kinds of circumstances bring all kinds of people to Mumsnet. You have started down the path of prejudice and sexism, and I really don't want this discussion to chase you down it further while you justify your stance and continue on this path. Please reconsider.

I am childless, I'm not married. I post here for advice, join in for a bit of a laugh, etc. Who cares who posts here? theres nowhere that says you HAVE to be a parent. I will hopefully be ttc in the foreseeable future, but does that mean I'm not welcome until I am a fully fledged mother? no. it doesn't.
leave it out, you sound man hating.

I strongly suspect that my DH posts on here but if I mention it to him, then I'd have to admit that I come on here too....

As a man, I enjoy coming on here and feel very welcome. My DW sometimes has a little dig at me: "on MN again", but actually she sometimes browses on here and sees that it's quite a civilized place.

Funnily enough, I probably enjoy it because a high proportion of posters are female, so I encounter a lot of emotionally intelligent discussion, and have gained a lot of insight into women's perspective on all sorts of topics (relationships obviously, but parenting, parking, work, homework...).

And I just use my common sense to steer clear of threads like "how do you cope with period pains" on the assumption that I'm not likely to have much to contribute to that one!

I bet Nunsnet is hilarious.

My stock response to this kind of thing is

if you can't imagine why men or childless people might want to come on MN, you must only read a very small and boring subset of threads