@SmileEachDay
I asked questions as I was interested. I don't want women's rights to be eroded.
But then it descended into the usual finger pointing and offence taking silliness and i got disillusioned.
So I thought I might make a joke about people who hide behind acronyms. Because it suddenly occurred to me, on the way home from a works party, that I'd encountered that type before.
IT nerds and corporate middle men. They all love their acronyms and their secrecy and use it to puff themselves up.
The idea that I want to be, by turns, spoon fed by posters (as one accused me of) and, at the same time, attacking them, is just ridiculous.
I don't have any influence whatsoever on the other debate.
Id' argue that nobody on Mumsnet has a massively influential role in society (otherwise why would we be on here, rather than out shaping government policy, or preparing manifestos or meeting the constituents that elected us or performing life saving operations or investigating murders or gene splicing.) You know why all those people don't come on AIBU? Because they have highly pressurised jobs with massive responsibility.
The irony is, though, that all over the above high status, high responsibility people are generally unfailing polite and understanding to membes of the public. You can ask a surgeon, or a murder detective, or a CEO of a company, a silly question and they will politely and patiently answer it.
On the other end of the scale, you can ask a jumped up acronym hugger to explain what they mean, and they get massively huffy and hoity toity with you.
Their insufferable pomposity is completely disproportionate to their actual intelligence and usefulness.
That was the point I was making. Simply that. Nothing else. So please don't do that dreadful thing that others do, where they add all kinds of extensions to it.
like "So you're saying that women's right should be revoked are you?"
That's known as a straw man argument, where you make an imaginary, indefensible foe (metaphorically speaking, a straw man) and then seek to destroy it.
To summarise: I was poking fun at the pomposity of people who are too lazy to explain their secret language, in a bid to maybe get them to come down off their high horse.