If I say Mumsnet attracts a certain type of person?

[poptothetop]

Let me start of by saying that I've been on quite a few other forums and the opinion/views of them are a lot different/ diverse.

Things most MN members seem to agree on:

Ear piercing views

Schooling views

Baby showers (haven't actually come across a MNetter who hasn't labelled them grabby).

If I were to mention these subjects elsewhere, the comments would be a lot more diverse and lenient.

So, AIBU to say Mumsnet attracts a certain type of person (overall)?

Whether that's because of social class or personality, I can't decide. It's interesting to see what you all think

I especially Sarah Vine's account of the day after the Ref vote.

I especially enjoyed*

I said hun once. It was immediately condemned.

Ive seen posters write, clearly under a great deal of stress, and the initial responses be along the lines of 'your op is very difficult to read and understand. could you try again with some punctuation and paragraphs?' So the mn masses force a certain standard of writing.

Btw i have a mooncup. I switched because I was flooding. Havent had an issue since switching. No idea why not.

That's okay hands, I realised it sounded like I was saying it about myself in a showy way rather than the derogatory way I have been called it. Class was a big thing growing up. I remember going to a family bbq in the mid 80s and the neighbours chanting 'your working class' at us out of their window. The fucking freaks!

I still shop at lidl and go into palpitations in waitrose. I think no matter how much money I had there are some things I would always go wtf at.

After this baby I'm thinking of trying a mooncup although I've always been totally grossed out by the thought of them.

I think mn is a place where all the classes can mingle, get along and find common ground, and talk about class in way we can't irl. Or at worst throw biscuits at each other.

"I love the writing on MN, it challenges me to be a bit more mindful of my own"

^This. And what another pp said about reading, writing and expressing themselves.

I find MN way, over the top PC in a way that is completely unfamiliar to me.

Hands I'm extremely proud to come from a working class background, but I think it's silly when people who're no longer working class, try and say they will always be working class

I can't remember who but a celebrity did this on that short lived Katie Hopkins show, and she rightly got proved wrong.

Hands you're working class, I'm presuming, but I don't know your profession so can't comment.

I think when you're born into a working class community, you carry on certain traits and ways of life. I have family in Brentwood with huge houses and a field of horses, that hold up their hands and demand they're working class. The reality is they're not. The wife can very comfortably afford to stay at home and their earnings and possessions prove further that they're indeed not WC anymore

I don't think baby showers are grabby! I'm a MNer. But then I'm also a fucking foreigner, so that probably explains it

Hands they too own different businesses

I think the MC are the ones who're more interested in class, I don't really know anyone from a WC background that gives a toss, and if they've done really well for themselves, they absolutely love to say they're working class forever and always

wisp I bloody love a baby shower, I just don't like it when people arrange their own!

I don't know much about class differences... When you say 'working class' do you mean blue collar labour jobs? Because my SIL is a teacher over in the states, comes from a family who all have university degrees, work in professional jobs, and she claims to be 'working class' because she has to work for a living and isn't wealthy. I don't really think I'd agree and would probably consider her middle class as I would me. Tangent, I know, sorry. I have a waitrose within walking distance, and always get my My John Lewis free coffee and cake vouchers, so I must be middle class.

But your class is so much more than how much money you have isn't it? There are penniless aristos and filthy rich wide boys. What about wc people who win the lottery? They are still wc. It's about attitudes.

And i know wc class people who have done well for themselves and moved to the burbs and are convinced they are now mc and would be very embarrassed about being considered wc. I also know quite a few mockneys who make out they are pure wc and are so very clearly mc it's painful to watch when they meet real wc people and try to show off their 'credentials'.

I threw my friend a baby shower. We didn't do stupid games tho, we just all got pissed and ate loads and gave her some cute dresses.

Hands you're forgetting the family dog

thinks carefully about how I'll act when I see this relative, in case she is you

Surely most people snoop around in various forums and then settle on the one or a few that they like?
You know, horses for courses??

I do think that MN attracts a certain type of uses, but I think it has far less to do with class (indeed a very British obsession, which I find bemusing as I am not British and not any 'class' ), but more to do with wit and an ability to see other people's POV with some critical thinking thrown in.

For instance, I do not wish NM or Babycentre uses ill in any way, but OMG the sites made me uncomfortable - far too twee and angst ridden and weird (for me) to hang out in comfortably.

Class, schmass, phffffft!!

I disagree on the baby shower thing!

Organising one for yourself = GOD NO!! Grabby and ick

Organising one for a friend's firstborn for a surprise = a lovely girly get together before the baby arrives with tea and cake!

For every thread about a PFB who slept through at 3 days old there is 5 started by somebody semi-psychotic by sleep-deprivation because their 7year old has yet to sleep more than 20 minutes in one stretch

Aw, the rich tapestry of life