Speaking as a man....

[LumpyMcBentface]

'Man here'

'Male opinion'

Please just stop it. Unless your post has something to do with your genitals (in which case probably don't post it) it has no relevance to what you are about to say.

We won't all stop, draw breath, and think 'finally! A man's opinion. We can all stop debating now'.

It just makes you look like a pompous mansplaining tosser.

There was nothing wrong with the guy poster or what he said. Your posts, goat, though are rude and hostile for no good reason.

Fight the real battles of oppression of women. Or are you just a talker on mn threads? A poser perhaps?

I'll take up for a respectful and nice person any day over an ass, doesn't matter what sex they are.

genitals

Women in general have to do far too much being nice and making people feel good

Goat. Surely you must see the irony in your post speaking as you do for womenkind!

I posted on a thread the other day and another poster said "I have a feeling restless traveller is a man" with a wink face attached. I'm not and it shouldn't bloody make a difference if I am or not!

irelephant love your user name..

elephants anybody.................

Thank you red love your name 🐘

Do only English women have the right to post here?

Of course not.

But posters will usually assume English law/norms apply unless an OP says "btw we are in Scotland/South Africa/Canada". Because the site is based in the UK and the majority of posters are in England.

Piping up for electricians, I'm an NICEIC registered electrician and I'm a woman. Also just passed my genie boom licence and on the stacker forklift course week. Carry on...😂

I thought plumbers did pipes?

Are you a man Tyto? You seem v knowledgeable

@ Giddy

Ooooh Giddy, I must be too much in tune with my male side tonight

I also agree that it all depends on the context of the thread.

I must say that all the people belittling others for saying that they.. "Asked their DP", or some such statement is a little annoying. Their are times when it's totally relevant and nothing to do with being in awe of the big, strong men.

I ask my DP's opinion quite often. Not because he's a man and therefore the authority on whatever the subject may be. But because I value his opinion as a human and any discussion that may then follow.

His role is in HSE. If it was relevant to the thread, I would have no qualms about saying.. "I've just asked DP..." as he will know far more than I about that particular subject.

Is this a good time to mention Backlight (or blacklight) who helped us girly fluffy brains with the computers and the interwebs? And then we went all Janet on his arse?
Although the Indy badgered him for an article paragraph about his MN 'experience' so that won the thread

I have never felt the need to start a post with ' As a tubby middle aged woman...'

Starting a thread with ' As a is a whole different matter.

Ive just read the rest of Tiggy's poetry. Tis very entertaining.

YABU, having an opinion from a male perspective is not a slur/sexism towards women.

Of course women and men are equal, but they are still different.

Andrew I keep reading you as Andrew of Ogg It reminds me of Angus Og
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicStrip/AngusOg

I hate the posts which state their DC's very intellectually superior views. 'I asked DS about blah blah and he said blah blah'.

I think some people are being very blind to just how much society is saturated by the male opinion. It is very, very, rare that women have not encountered the male opinion in almost any topic. It is much rare for women to be able to openly and honestly discuss things without the male pov being imposed upon the discussion. Even large numbers of women do it. Lots (e.g. "Men just don't see mess" "If you're home with the kids it really is your job to do the housework" etc).

Men are massively disproportionately represented in business, media, politics etc etc. In fact, there are several studies which show that any TV/movies that have more than 1/3 of characters onscreen, ALL viewers believe that women are being over-represented - as if somehow only 1/3 of the world's population is female.

So, no, I don't want to ban men, and yes, at times, it's polite to prevent any erroneous assumptions, but most of the time women have heard enough from men, and we really don't need to hear from them any more.

It's a bit like the People of Color Conference that has lots of white people going to it. People of Color really don't need to hear any more from white people.

Shutting up can be the best form of support.

Another ass! haha!

Yes but who decides if it's relevant? I almost never mention it - but still got slagged off

90% of the time it is not relevant.

Sometimes it is. But rarely.

|I often state I am a teacher, but it is on the education boards, or if someone is dealing with a child being bullied at school. There it is relevant.

But if they didn't say it how would the posters of AIBU or Relationships be able to treat them with the appropriate degree of suspicion, condescension or outright hostility?

Shutting up can be the best form of support

You're probably hearing from a lot of men now - but you just don't realise it because most people don't announce it on here. Who knows who is really behind a keyboard?

Thank you Stealth and Hearts. Mostly for my own amusement, but I'm trying to find agents or publishers for the book length things.

What Kickass said.

Incidentally, have just come home from an academic conference in which there was a male keynote speaker at the beginning and a female keynote speaker at the end. The woman speaker was interrupted twice during her paper by the male keynote - unchallenged by the male chair - and then had her topic, on which she is an internationally recognised expert, mansplained to her by the male keynote and chair in the question and answer session.

The irony is that this was a conference which dealt with rediscovering obscure non-canonical and marginal voices in literature, many of them, for obvious reasons, female. Grr.