To wonder why people without children post here?

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How would you even find the place? I'd imagine they googled something and stumbled upon a thread and stuck around. Am I right?

Yes great first post Op....

Am I able to post on trip trap threads with not being a goat....

Love a good Bzilla one. I guess as never being married ill give that up

Fuck it.

Troll alert!

Or seriously stoopid op.

I'd nc if I were you. Cards marked now....

rude

and I don't work in an office. but I posted on a thread about management speak

I'm a rebel

By parents for parents, i think is the motto, and I think parenting matters should be left to parents

I think intelligent and witty debate should be left to people with intelligence and wit. Frankly.

But that's okay Zing you are a mother and therefore one of the worthy of having an opinion on MN

I LOVE those management speak threads

Shame I'll have to give those up, now that I have to leave MN for 'Old.childlessSpinster.com'

Wonder if they swear as much there....

I'll miss you all.....

Hester if only

I think intelligent and witty debate should be left to people with intelligence and wit. Frankly.

^^ to this!

Although given that I have neither, perhaps I really should go

It takes a village, 'n all. We are a society, other people in that society are entitled to comment on children.

Especially when they often have to put up with other people's rude, antisocial, offspring.

And when their taxes help pay for our children's schools, etc.

Most of the parenting types bore me....my top fave three posters aren't parents....although I think one has been struck off

Maybe there should be a Pariahs' Section for those people who have not incubated a foetus.

Anyone ever posted on gardening who doesn't have a garden

You know, even if they are teachers, childcare workers and so on

Hester....can I still join though as had dd surgically born by choice and never bf by choice I seldom fit in anywhere

Hmmmm, I don't know. My opinion counts for naught, as I have tried and failed to conceive. What am I still doing here?

I love MN and most of what it offers but I am regularly at the degree of spite shown towards some posters. Then even more when the mobbing starts.

Someone I don't have any children at home and fwiw I don't think you are stupid for posting like some have suggested. These are for you

Hester, maybe your opinion counts for a tiny bit because you tried to conceive?

Mine clearly counts for absolutely nothing as I have never even tried to conceive.

Misty you misunderstand me (though I can't speak for others). My own spite was directed at MrsRuffalo who had directed her spite at the childless (thinly disguised as her not minding us.)

It's like spite tennis.

On a serious note how do these posters who simply can't understand why childless posters post on MN imagine it makes someone feel who has suffered multiple miscarrriages/repeated IVF or IUI failures/have tried for years with no hint of a pregnancy to read such thoughtless claptrap? My advice would be to have a little think before posting the first thing that came into their minds.

And, (can you tell this has me riled) the argument that 'it's called Mumsnet' and 'is says by 'parents for parents' doesn't wash.
I suggest you go to Carphone Warehouse and demand they fit a Carphone in your car because they are called Carphone Warehouse.

Hester I don't think that the posters think for one second about those they might be hurting.

But I also think it's abundantly clear that they don't know MN very well, because a few minutes browsing would show you just how much variety there is here, and the huge number of topics that aren't in the least bit 'parenting' related.

So either they're trolls, or just very, very narrow minded and a bit dim.

As for me - I'm not hurt by this thread, more amused really. But I was hurt by the poster who posted on my own thread (as I mentioned above), who, in the middle of a long running thread about MIL issues asked "So you don't have kids, why are you even here?".

That one stung, I must admit. The bollocking I gave them felt good though.

Good for you. Such people deserve a bollocking if it means that in future they might think before they post.

To be honest it's not just the hurt they might thoughtlessly cause. It's their stupid assumption that those who have not procreated know nothing about children. I worked as an activity instructor with on children's holidays for three years before teaching for six years and now I have six nephews and nieces with whom I'm very close. I know lots about children!

But that's by the by, because so much of MN is simply banter which has nothing to do with kids at all. Anyone can join in.

emotion

of course. but is there a ranking then?
I have 7 kids so my opinion must also worth more than those who have "just one" child. no?

(btw I'd like to emphasise that I utterly loathe when people say "just one" kid as a way of criticism. The implications that one child is not enough is a sure way to get me enraged.
I would never judge anyone for the choices or circumstances that allows or prevents them to have any number of children)

*Hester)

Meh. It's ok, I'm kind of over it. People being dickish just wind me up!

But thanks for les fleurs x

But where could Zombie go?