does it bother you that men use this site also?

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Sometimes very female skewed things are discussed and I can't help feeling slightly uncomfortable when I read: "Male perspective here..."

I'm sure I am BU but does anyone else feel the same? I am struggling to put into words why it bothers me but it does.

private conversation

It's an open forum, nothing you post is private.

But it's not called ParentsNet it's called Mumsnet

For parents By parents, MNHQ have plenty of male Guest posters and so fourth too.

I doubt anyone posts on MN specifically to get a male perspective. It is ok to assume that the majority of posters are female.

I am a single parent to four boys. Sometimes the male perspective helps. I was never a boy so sometimes I just don't get it 😊.

"You have no idea of the sex of anyone posting, unless they declare it."

True and even then they could be lying, Mumsnet may actually be 95% male posters, nobody will ever know for certain.

But it's not called ParentsNet it's called Mumsnet. Maybe Parentsnet should be started too so we can have both.

Maybe you should read the line under the title. For parents by parents.

I think it's fair to have a place on the internet where females can support each other over issues they face.

This is an open Internet forum. You don't even need to register to see posts.

The beauty of Mumsnet is being able to post anonymously without judgment and support each other.

Supporting doesn'g equal always agreeing.

When a man comes along and posts a comment I just feel like a private conversation I've been having with girlfriends has been gate crashed by a totally irrelevant odd neighbour listening in over the fence.

Again you could be 'talking' to men. You don't know.

It isn't private in anyway shape or form.

You women are allowed to post in the Dadsnet bit.

What's Dadsnet for?

No

What's Dadsnet for?

Apaprently it should be empty as there should be no male posters to post in that section.

Well after a long search for Dadsnet I found it and there do seem to be threads on it, but it must be they don't want their own section that much as it's not been posted on for a few days.

Threads like this that bring out the 'it's so difficult being a man on Mumsnet!' sadface posts are hilarious. Try being a woman on a male-dominated forum.

There was a brief invasion by Mumsnetters to Pie and Bovril, some Scottish Football male website. They invaded MN first. It wasn't pretty.

It's an open forum, nothing you post is private.
It is private in that it's anonymous.

jemimapudley I agree, I did come on mumsnet initially for female perspective not mens'. I don't understand why men would come on here, it's the last thing my DH would do. The logo shows women. The name of the group is mumsnet, it's not unreasonable to assume this is a female site for females.

jemimapudley I agree, I did come on mumsnet initially for female perspective not mens'. I don't understand why men would come on here, it's the last thing my DH would do. The logo shows women. The name of the group is mumsnet, it's not unreasonable to assume this is a female site for females.

There are many forums on here that are not just to do with female or parenting for that matter.

You can make assumptions on anything you like. It doesn't make it true

I did come on mumsnet initially for female perspective not mens

As pp have said, unless you have a crystal ball, how do you know the gender of the pouter!? You don't.

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Tiggy has a point. There are certain people on MN who would be up in arms and try to use censorship if you post in 'their' section but it's ok if they post on Dadsnet cuz teh patriarchyz and teh worldz iz a menz space

oh iz that true?

YABVU I don't care if someone is male, female, hippopotamus, whatever. I come to largely lurk then crawl out of the woodwork every couple years, post a few comments over a few months and disappear for another couple years.

Make posters and lurkers are as welcome as female ones imo. It's a public forum, the public speak. You don't like that then stop using the site....

That should be male not make

I know we don't know what the sex of a poster is but I do wonder why men come on mumsnet...

It's not hard being a man on mumsnet at all bogtrotter. It's hard being an arsehole, but not a man. If you're a non~arsehole man and somebody is totally hating on you, they're the arsehole.