To think Mumsnet HQ shouldn't allow sexist articles....

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I was looking up children's party food ideas so and came across this lovely suggestion below. I didn't realise that certain drinks were 'for girls' or that children had to consume drinks dependent on their gender - unless they're "impressively metrosexual' of course!

"For small gatherings of girls (and impressively wannabe-metrosexual boys), you could venture down the "exotic fruit cocktail" route"

It's so alarmingly stupid I'm not even sure what to say about it!

Ewww. Telling little boys that they shouldn't like fun drinks because they have to protect their macho image.

That's mean.

Wow.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious. Then they grow up and we wonder how to attract more men into traditionally female occupations and vice versa. Conveniently forgetting that we began their indoctrination as early as we possibly could.

Bit of a shame MN.

Jesus. What would the opposite be? "For small groups of boys (and potential lesbians) serve coke made to look like pints of John Smiths"?

I wonder if MN are aware it says that. I think they'd change the wording or take it down if you report it to them.

Haha CheeseOfHearts.

How do you report something to them effectively? I've emailed before and never got a response back. I thought they might see this!

They will only see this if someone reports the thread, they can't read everything. If you have something you want to bring to the attention of MNHQ specifically, its best to start the thread under 'Site Stuff', I'm pretty sure they do read all those.

So I suggest you report your OP and ask them to move the thread to Site Stuff.

And yes, that cocktail suggestion is so something which if a poster put in a thread would hopefully be shredded.

Report it .I reported one of the endless stupid cupcake recipes headed ' guilt free'

I'm afraid the attitude that it is feminine to be thick does permeate the site.

I will tell my husband who likes a pina colada that this week he is impressively wannabe metrosexual!

Hi folks,

Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention.

We've flagged this page to our content team (turns out it's quite an old article) and they are editing this right now. Sorry about that!

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious.

I couldn't help it, I laughed. It's so, so bad! Glad to hear it's being edited. Oh dear.

"We've flagged this page to our content team (turns out it's quite an old article) and they are editing this right now."

Didn't realise MN was going in the 1950s

Well we all know what happened to that there George Michael don't we? He had that drink with fruit and an umbrella in the Club Tropicana video and in the blink of an eye he was getting arrested for committing lewd acts in a public toilet in LA. If only they'd given him a pint of pale he'd have been assaulting underage schoolgirls in a travelodge like a proper popstar.

Be careful with those fruit based drinks ladies. Very dangerous gateway drug.

Didn't realise MN was going in the 1950s

Be fair - I think the 1950s version would have been 'camp' not IWM (which I'm sort of hoping becomes an irony-heavy acronym)

Sorry to ask but was does "IWM" mean?

Impressively Wannabe-Metrosexual ifyougodown

Impressively Wannabe Metrosexual - my new phrase of choice!

Gosh would never have guessed that