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.

Oh and having read the thread there is one poster doing a fair amount of womensplaining about what women know/ what women think/ what men know/ what men think.

I just picture them saying speaking as a man... Then immediately passing a microphone to their penis.

Makes the whole thing much less frustrating and more comedic.

Speaking as a man, I think what we should do about this is all of us start every post we write with "speaking as a man...".

Speaking as a Cat ....... I'd be happy to start posts with that.

Speaking as a Flamboyant Homosexual™..

Iggy I have never had a mince pie!

I would hope there's more than one VOD or else we have a serious risk of communicable diseases among the men-folk.

I might be doing the womansplain of the risks of sharing one's penis microphone.

The ones which annoy me are the "give me ammo against DH" threads.

You know - where someone's trying to persuade her DH to do something he doesn't want (some tedious holiday or home extension, usually), and she thinks the reason that he hasn't agreed with her must be because she hasn't argued it well enough, so she comes on here with "help me persuade DH...." or "help me convince DH..."

Because his wife hasn't persuaded him, so the ideas of a bunch of strangers on the internet definitely will.

Double annoyance points if someone says "Show him this thread!" Like that's going to work!

DadOnIce It certainly wouldn't work on me.. quite the opposite, in fact.

TBH, sitting behind a keyboard any of us could pretend to be anyone, regardless of what we might claim to be...

DadOnIce in my experience those threads tend to be nothing more than people having a moan about a difference of opinions in their marriage. There is nothing sinister in it.

We are fully aware that 'the ideas of a bunch of strangers' wouldn't really change anyone's mind on something like a house extension, though there is nothing wrong with asking some like minded people how to better argue your case if you feel strongly enough about it.

I'm not sure why that would be annoying TBH.

Do you have such a chip on your shoulder that you think that? This place is full of women, feminists, mothers making sweeping generalisations about what women's lives are like(or supposed to be like) coupled with equally sweeping generalisations about what men are like /do/think
Yes. We are not cardboard cutouts. It's all a bit 'four legs good two legs bad' at times

DadOnIce in my experience those threads tend to be nothing more than people having a moan about a difference of opinions in their marriage. There is nothing sinister in it.

Flip the tables and tell me that in reverse! 🙄

User do you feel that way about women who aren't mums as well?

I must live in an alternate universe where half the population have penises.

Weird, innit?

I hate that there's men on here.

On a forum who's tagline is 'by parents for parents'? Get over yourself ffs.

Bit rich having been here five minutes (comparatively; if you'd been here a while you'd actually have a name, not a generic user number) to criticise a parenting forum for daring to allow men onto it. As Queen says, presumably you also hate any women on this site who aren't parents?

Anyway, there'll be one less man on here after tonight, which I'm sure you will rejoice about.

I don't take any opinions seriously if they are from a user123456789 name.

StillDrSeth, you're not gonna to be scared away surely?!

I know ways of keeping him here...

i8E i used to enjoy MN. It was a helpful supportive forum for everyone. But since penis beaker it's become far more trolling, far more bitchy, far more unhelpful, far more goady. In the last week, I've had lies told about me in private messages and then when those lies proved to be untrue, the poster decided to imply the same things publicly on another thread. Then we have posters on this thread basically suggesting men aren't welcome. On other threads, anyone who states they don't have children are attacked with "why are you here then, if you're not parents?" (um, some people may not have kids but work with them). There's a thread for the childfree among us started up but people are delighting coming on there being quite offensive.

The irony about all of this, is that in every instance, those being offensive, back stabbing or shit stirring are..... women, whether to men or other women.

I just cant't be arsed with MN any more. There's enough crap in real life without putting up with it on here, too.

Ooooh DrSeth, is that a flounce?

Queen Yeah. After 5 years, my first and last flounce!

I'm the only flouncer round here!

DrSeth, come back....(twirls hair and bites lip)