To ask the most bizzare 'facts' you have read on mums net

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Everyone obviously thinks what they are telling you is true but sometimes their sources or opinions are not factually correct.

What is the most ridiculous or bizzare fact/opinion you have seen ?

Umm, Feminism is 'about choice'. Why wouldn't it be?

Choose to do what suits you, not what is expected of you because you are female.

The militant feminists don't believe that feminism is about choice and expend a lot of energy berating those who do.

What do they think it is about then?

Have a look at the Christmas card thread.

A mooncup will be a life changing experience. I will magically save the earth single handed just by collecting my own period blood.
Uh no thanks, just the thought turns my stomach.

It's about doing what you're told by group A rather than group B. Obviously.

Donkeypunch, using a mooncup has got nothing to do with saving the earth as far as I'm concerned, it's more that it has sorted out crippling cramps and is less messy and ikky than any other protection I've tried for the last 30 years. So yes, genuinely life changing for me. Don't knock it till you've tried it

How does the mooncup stop cramps?

You can guarantee that on a thread asking about the best sanitary towels someone will be along to say 'mooncup'.

That being pissed off with your boss because they make your life hell by being generally mean and difficult, gives you grounds for constructive dismissal.

Um nope, sorry but it does not.

Feminism is about choice but for women as a class of people. So choices an individual woman makes can be unfeminist insofar as they play into the hands of misogynistic stereotypes.

Example - Margaret Thatcher was the first female PM but was not a feminist and did nothing to improve women’s rights/issues.

I remember a thread about Mooncups where one poster was trying one out and was visiting a friend. Unfortunately she misjudged the suction pulling it out in the bathroom and splashed a cupful of blood up the bathroom door.
I think her friend knocked on the door to see if everything was alright after about 20 minutes trying to clean up the bloodbath with toilet roll and lots of swearing.

That always stuck in my mind

On another thread right now: "can't you go back to uni and get a better paid job?"

Well that might help in several years time but as much use as a fart in an astronauts suit in the short term, is it?

Today there are no unwanted pregnancies in southern American states. Posted earlier today.

That not learning to drive makes you a bad, selfish, inadequate, lazy, selfish person who is not contributing to the relationship or family.

It depends on the circumstances since

If any food is left out of the fridge for more than 4 microseconds, or goes more than 8 microseconds out of date, it will cause food poisoning to anyone who eats it.

You need to pbey a printed use by date on a bag of potatoes to see if they are fresh because the age old technique of giving them a prod to see if they appear to be OK won't detect any invisible deadly microbes that could be present.

Haha, I knew that one would go down well

Feminism is about female liberation. "Choice" is simplifying it too much and it turns into "anything a woman does is a feminist choice".

Oh yeah... anyone with a period problem: use a mooncup. Like they’re sons magic cure-all. If someone’s tried one and found it tricky then they’re clearly using it wrong. No, maybe they do just find it awkward and are fine with pads/tampons.

Also, people who selectively misread posts and pounce on one sentence, even if the OP has explained. Example: OP lives near ghastly ILs/siblings, explains that they do no have very much money so cannot move. You can almost guarantee that one poster will ask if they can move!! No, the OP has already SAID they can’t. Read the flippin OP properly FFS!!! This has often applied to other threads too.

some not sons

@grumpyoldpersonwithcats

My dad spent £5k on a hip replacement for our cat followed by months of hydrotherapy and it still walked like a drunk pantomime horse!

Oh and men are awful awful beings but marrying one solves everything. Yes.
Also the complete lack of knowledge about speech and language development. Some children need specialist help and have specific disorders.

My MN lesson of the day is a woman ghosting a man after the 'red flags' is ok.

A man ghosts a woman and it's what a bastard !!

Is it ghosting or going no contact ? decisions, decisions...

I thought of another one today. Shaun the sheep's name is coincidental, and nothing to do with him going in the sheep shearing machine that Wallace builds and being SHORN!