to think MN should get into the 21st Century instead of pedalling sexist shite?

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Massive sigh at the 'Mumsnet swears by' email. Suggestions for Mother's Day presents:
Scented shitey formaldehyde polluting candles
Hair brushes!
Cookery Book
Perfume
A coat
Bath shit stuff
Hand cream, nail varnish, flowers, shite....
Maybe some books mentioned if you look hard enough.

So that's all you can think of?? Looking pretty, cooking and smelling nice afterwards??

Can you seriously not think of something less 1950s?
I went back and looked at suggestions for Father's Day presents - and while they are still stereotyping they at least look a bit more "fun":
Whiskey, Game of Thrones Box set, pans (wow! irony?), craft beer and Stephen Fry book.

How about celebrating your mother being a person? Not some domestic goddess serf mashup.

Oh and don't get me started on the blaze of sexist shite cards - paraphrasing "Mummy thank you for cooking, cleaning and wiping my arse for the last fifteen years - here have a "day off" and smarten yourself up a bit"

/end rant

he would really feel like a knob getting in a cab with that
Cab driver would give him a look of disdain and the knobbiness would get worse.

Yes you have to bitw into them and pull the inside out in one go mmm

I like some of the stuff on that list.
However, I have an issue with the fact that it's apparently the only things I'm supposed to want.

So no caving equipment for me then :(

Serioulsy, if you want to do a list (and I believe this is impossible because we all have our own taste anyway!!), at least MN can put a bit of 'other' stuff than the boring 'womanly' shite stuff.

Yes sugary soft milk chocolate surrounded by sugary hard milk chocolate rolled in sugar.
We have sophisticated tastes

sugar - EXACTLY. And he already has form. But that's not for here.

slightyglitterbrained - yes, I know! That's why it's so bad. I've clearly decided subconsciously that I don't even need comfort in a bra. I'm WAY off deserving a pretty candle! Also 'thinking bigger' could be an issue... If you have any comfortable industrial scaffolding I'm interested.

Love those chocolates too.

Turfels in their purest form.....

I haven't had one of those for years.

And here I was thinking my Kit Kat cookies and cream was fancy.

I don't understand people being picky about truffles.
It's truffles.

I would be delighted with any present that dc had persuaded Dh to pay for....

Having a fizz cause they had got me a candle?!

I don't turn my nose up at any gifts...I just don't get this at all.....Mother's Day gifts that children have chosen and I'm supposed to be sneery because they are 'feminised'

Oh well I plan on plastering a smile on my face when presented with burnt toast in bed

I have an adult scooter with air filled tyres. DD and I scoot to school in the summer. As we live on a hill, it's great fun going to school... Less fun coming home it has to be said.

anyway, I hate all the crap about branding gifts "sexist shit". Just get your mother what they would like to receive and hope your children do the same for you, be that a power drill, electric sander or an bumper box of beauty products.

I think Iona's DH should get one of these.

Imagine how much takeaway and wine he could bring home.

Worra that is amazing! He'd get at least three bottles of wine in there, too! SOLD.

I used to make my mum toast in bed. I can't imagine any worse way to eat breakfast. I like to be sitting upright with a nice table to balance all my stuff on. Fairly sure she felt the same but plastered on a smile :)

maybe I'd talk about society restricting her and my choices to "pretty things," thereby further objectifying women as items of visual value rather than individuals with different passions and desires

If I cared about Mothers'day, which I do not, I'd be very irritated if I were given practical gifts.

We don't celebrate Mother's Day in my house because we don't buy into the commercialised claptrap advertising machine.And also because I refuse to be defined as a mother. Perhaps you should try that OP instead of whining and seeing the patriarch influencing every little gesture.

That sums it up exactly.

Jeez, do people really get wound up if their children give them a candle? I wonder will they say "mummy doesn't like candles as they're sexist? My DH loves candles, books, uses hand cream as well as a hair brush, wears aftershave and OMG puts redox in his bath. Of course, all these things are sexist

If you don't like Mothers Day then that fine, however other people do.

What happened just making a card and bringing your Mum a piece of soggy toast in bed?

Oh and a daffodil, nabbed from the garden

Personally I think being sold a heavily priced, processed, perfumed and packaged jar of soap, or a lump of wax air freshener as a "treat" is a miracle of advertising and years of lifestyle grooming - but hey ho

Oh bully for you. I suppose the irony of caring as much about Mother's day yet as you do but criticising others for being victims of marketing escapes you.

Sugar I'm so sorry. It must be an incredibly difficult day for you.

No of course they don't SpringHasSprung. I feel you have missed the point a bit.

Car freshener.
Some golf clubs.
After shave.
A tie.

IonaMN they fold in half so wouldn't be quite so twatish... well maybe not. (I'm not a marketeer for Decathlon honest!) I had only seen kids micro scooters selling for near £100 so I thought those adults ones made to a much higher standard and quite practical were a reasonable price in comparison. I'm not saying it's not a luxury though.

I suppose it's useless to point out again that my list of gifts I wanted were more birthday type presents and actually listed for fun (I think that's still allowed on MN isn't it?).

I actually don't give a stuff about Mother's Day - it is another excuse to persuade people to spend more money on tat. And I really think a home-made card is enough. I'm delighted when the school/nursery gets my DC to make them. That's the best bit of the day.