That it’s a bit weird when men post on this forum?

[Bringbeboback]

I get the times where a male might use Mumsnet for some female perspective on things like relationship problems. But I find it weird when men post on random topics. For example there was one about chocolate bars recently and a man was on there talking about what he likes and what his wife likes. Is there not a male equivalent forum?

Just becuase it’s called mumsnet it doesn’t mean men or women without dc aren’t welcome

If it seems odd it's because of the MumsNet site name

Ah. In that case I shall have to take myself off to BarrenSpinstersNet.

ThymeLord

Where did you get that from?

I dislike some women, of course but nothing I've said could lead to you the conclusion I dislike half of the population because of their genitals.

Incidentally, "bet she's on mumsnet" is a common observation by a couple of women in my office. Do they dislike women or just some of the more difficult and unusual ones?

JacquesHammer

Speak for yourself. The men in my family can look after themselves. Less of the projecting please.

The misogyny oozes out of your posts. Hysterical, mundane, pointless, catty, frivolous. All words you have used to describe women on this thread.

Less of the projecting please

Don't be daft. I do no "wife work". I'm not a wife

Incidentally, "bet she's on mumsnet" is a common observation by a couple of women in my office. Do they dislike women or just some of the more difficult and unusual ones?

They dislike women. It's low-level internalised misogyny, comes with growing up as female in patriarchy. I've said that very same thing myself when I was younger and dafter.

Man/dad here. Only posted a few times. I'm on mumsnet as I get much better advice and enjoy the conversation better than other sites. Dadsnet is just crap.
Merry Christmas ladies

Oh, and men

No and no.

Although, some of them are a disgrace to their Y chromosome.

Just as long as they don't start mansplaining or asking the ladies for their opinion on how to get more sex with their partners. Or how to deal with the mad partner who accused them of abuse.
All else (pretty much) is welcome.

Why is Dadsnet crap?

They hardly post. Nothing interesting to say.

or asking the ladies for their opinion on how to get more sex with their partners

Dont "ladies" post about that sort of stuff though? I do however know what you mean and it's maybe about the tone rather than the content?

I prefer chatting to women on here, but it's an open forum, so anyone can join. There are loads of different topics.

Thing is the site has such huge traffic which makes it appealing, don't know if it's the largest in the UK?

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Respo???

I’d like to meet (most of) the men who post on here, they sound like nice blokes 😊

It does strike me as a bit unusual though as none of the men I know IRL would post on here. They don’t ‘chat’ online really. They might post the odd comment on a sports or cycling type forum, but not just general ‘chat’. So yeah, I’d like to actually meet some make ‘chatters’.

The mansplaining ones can piss off...so can the ‘My Wife gave birth yesterday, why doesn’t she want to have sex with me today?!’ posters. But there are female equivalents who can fuck off too.

Would you all be ok with your partners regularly posting on here? I don’t think i’d be bothered at all, but I know my OH definitely doesn’t as he hates technology and barely looks at his phone or laptop

Dont "ladies" post about that sort of stuff though? I do however know what you mean and it's maybe about the tone rather than the content?

Women tend to post after years. The men I was talking about post after a few months.

Women are concerned they're not attractive anymore to their partner. Those men want a quick fix to get more sex. They're not so worried about what is going on with their partners.

I say those men, because some others post what looks like genuine problems and sound like people.

I got to "meet" some male posters from another mostly female forum. They were great.

This is the last place I'd expect my husband to post on, he struggles to be bothered to reply to mates text's let alone put effort in to be bothered with a load of strangers opinions!

The mansplaining ones can piss off...so can the ‘My Wife gave birth yesterday, why doesn’t she want to have sex with me today?!’ posters.

I think those are mostly female trolls/PBP to be honest, just trying to whip up a bit of 'anti male poster' sentiment.

There are/were a small minority of posters who hate the fact that not only do men post here, but some of them are quite well liked.

haven't read the full thread, and I may have missed the point completely, but I remember a few years ago when I came on here complaining about my then DP, after a few pages of replies, my eyes were slowly opened to how abusive he was and I ended up leaving him.

He found the thread and lost his head about it.

Then every once in a while I would spot a thread he had started...about Lundy Bancroft, about how his exp left him when he was depressed, how he was autistic and his wife left him, oh poor me etc...he got called out EVERY SINGLE TIME. Eventually, the posters got on to him and question his motives for posting. The he would either disappear or show his true colours and become abusive. It was amusing (if slightly sad) to read.

My DH has got advice on parenting stuff off here before. No problem with that although if he'd started off a thread with "Hello Ladies!" I'd have had to leave him, obviously.

It's interesting that discussion forums seem to be seen as a mostly-female thing now that men couldn't be bothered with. In earlier Internet days they were mostly male and it was a pain in the arse wading through all the "there are no girls on the internet" stuff. Also interesting that back then it was 'discussion' forums, and now it's 'chat' forums...

It’s 95% women & always will be. The conversations are just too female oriented to attract that many men.