To My Fellow Mumsnetters,
This topic arose on my recent thread about Bernie Sanders, so I decided to start a thread centered around it.
I really enjoy Mumsnet; there is nothing else like it. However, even as a mellow person, and someone whose hackles rarely get raised, I find myself increasingly pissed off by the anti-American schtick around here.
Enough about our mammoth American refrigerators! (Yes, I own one.) It is not our fault that you have imported over-the-top baby showers or bachelorette parties ("hen-dos"). (I didn't have one, for the record, I think that they are dumb.)
Our educational system is very decent, thank you very much. (For one, unless you are talking about NYC, children here are guaranteed a spot in a local school in the town in which they reside. No muss, no fuss.
Also, did you know that the majority of US physicians, of whom I am one, currently support the implementation of a single-payer health care system that provides guaranteed coverage to all? We are working on it, European onlookers!!
The US is like a collection of 50 different small countries horribly lumped together, and change can be slow.
But we got it together on gay marriage! That was pretty impressive. And Bernie Sanders is very popular! That is a good sign. We make good tv shows?? (Yours are great as well, and much more artful, imho.)
And I think we are so nice to you-always gushing about your lovely accents, assuming that you are smarter than we are because of how you talk, even, appreciating your amazing architecture, art, lusting after your sexy princes, etc...
Well, that concludes my rant for now. Thank you for reading it. I feel better. Commence telling me IABU.
With Love,
Pitiless Yank.
AIBU?
To point out the anti-Americanism on Mumsnet?
PitilessYank · 04/02/2016 15:52
I'm American (Midwesterner 
)and I come on Mumsnet to be among Brits! Met a Brit whilst studying aboard, married him and had the first babe over there. We go back to visit family as often as we can. The experience of being able to see America and Americans from a new perspective was so eye-opening and I can say that since we've moved back there isn't a week that doesn't go by where I think to myself "Ugh, I can't stand the American public" (mostly when it comes to things like crappy 'news' coverage, Republicans, crappy insurance and health care, over the top food commercials, never ending drug commercials, super loud obnoxious people, enormous petrol-guzzling trucks being driven everywhere, constant institutional racism, women-bashing, etc. etc. etc) . I can honestly say that I don't get that bristly when I see things being described as "American" in the negative connotation.
Can't get my head round your crazy laws.
Everybody has the right to bear arms - resulting in numerous tragic school shootings, in which countless children have tragically lost their lives and
yet
and yet, get this.
You BAN the use of Kinder Chocolate Eggs, because the toys inside the chocolate eggs might pose a risk to children! 
people have to go to Canada to purchase a Kinder Eggwtf.
Yes people, Kinder Eggs are banned and against the law in the states because the small parts pose a risk to children google it if you don't believe me
but, it's safe and within the law for everybody to own guns 
Now if that isn't crazybackwards thinking logic.....
However, there are lots of other things that I love about your country.
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Jeez, I am taking some of this stuff a bit more personally than usual!
(mildly regrets starting thread)
for me
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