Should men post on mumsnet ?

[jaffacake2]

Just wondering what other people think about men posting on mumsnet. I have been reading threads which men have contributed to and some are very funny but some are slightly concerning.
The man who wrote about his disastrous OLD was very amusing. It was great to read about awful dates from a male perspective. But there was also a sex thread about whether it was unreasonable to be asked to just show your boobs so your partner can masturbate regularly. The thread was going well until a man joined giving his personal thoughts on needs of men. The thread slowed and I felt that women had been intimidated by his opinions. Maybe not but would welcome a discussion about men being onsite.
Perhaps it should be renamed people net rather than mumsnet

I quite like it when they start a post 'from a man's perspective' or similar, as I know I can skip their mansplaining bollocks.

Anyone who starts a post with 'Laides, ... ' should receive a lifetime ban

Where would MN be without PigletJohn? I'm pretty sure he's a man and a very helpful one, too!

are you sure PigletJohn is male? What proof do you have apart from knowledge of blokey subjects?

as a completely separate issue, it is not necessary to have a dick to be a dickhead. There are dumb women and dumb men, and arses of both genders.

but as is bleeding obvious, there's no way to police who types. Great, isn't it?

I loved MIFLAW and his posting advice usually about alcohol related problems, but he was funny on other threads too. He hasn't been here for ages though afaik.

I've seen some threads where women have pretty much said 'we don't want your opinion, it's not welcome on here, and I don't know why you'd join this site in the first place.' Just because it's a site called Mumsnet, it doesn't mean that anyone without children, or men or grandparents or whoever else might not enjoy it and want to contribute to threads.
I find it quite unpleasant when women say 'when we want your opinion we'll ask for it, your views don't belong here and are irrelevant because of your sex' etc to male posters. If a man posted like that about women on a thread he'd get flamed.

I'm not sure PigletJohn is a man?

In summary:
being a dick = not allowed
having a dick = fine

Ofcourse blokes should be allowed to post hers.
Everyone should.

For all we know you could be a man

Everyone should.

I'm not prejudice but i'd be a bit weirded out if vampires posted.

Seeing as the tagline, at the top of the site, is 'By parents, for parents' - no, I don't think men should be excluded/not allowed to post.

On a wider level, I think MN benefits hugely from the wide variety of people who post here - so many professions, hobbies, interests, political persuasions, religions (to name but a few) are represented here - and it all adds to the richness of the site, imo.

So what matters for me is not someone's gender, or whether they are a parent, or their beliefs, occupation etc - it's whether they make a positive contribution to the site.

I couldn't care less whether a poster is female, male or from the planet zog as long as they aren't a troll or being goady. I'd wonder why a man would want to post here though.

usual care to explain that sexist, generalised shambles of a comment?

PausingFlatly - well said

And for equality of insult,
being a cunt = etc

I think it would be weird to say that men aren't 'allowed' to post, but I do find it a bit odd that they do? Non parents as well I guess. Or maybe odd is the wrong word, but I just wonder how they ever came to be posting on here? The name 'Mumsnet' makes it sound like a Mums forum, which I thought it was when I joined, but then having been posting on it for a while now I think actually it's just a general chat forum . .. which is fine, but then why call it Mumsnet? So if to an outsider it looks like a mums forum then why would they come here to post in the first place? I'm not articulating it very well, but hope I'm making some kind of sense! Lol!

I'm not a mum. I came across this site when Aibu was reported in the newspapers a few years ago and I thought it sounded interesting.

Loads of threads don't have any connection to parenting at all. It's a bit sad you think it is odd that I'd post here.

I find the mansplainers here tend to have an agenda. Usually bitter about a relationship ending. Just my personal opinion

Sometimes I forget that Mumsnet is a parenting site.

Of course men should be able to post. Unfortunately when some men do, they are twats. Some women on here are twats too.

I get what usual is saying about the sex topic. There are a couple of posters who only show up on certain threads about sex. They never contribute to any other threads. Thankfully it's a minority.

I'm not a parent either and I find plenty of subject matter on here that's relevant to me.

I don't see any reason why men shouldn't post. I have seen a couple of dumbass male posts but equally seen dumbass female posts.
What I like about MN is the help that people offer and reading posts from Doctors Lawyers Nurses and people who live overseas.
A lot of threads have given me insight into different professions be they male or female. Reading things from a different pov is very interesting, although I may not agree with some posts.
Wouldn't know if a lot of things were posted by men or women but in general people are posting their opinon or asking for help.
It's nice to be able to help someone if I can and if that someone is a male it doesn't really matter.

I really like some of our male members (I'm looking at you Andrewofgg)

i always read Andrewofgg as AndrewFOGG. it took me ages to realise I had it wrong.