To wonder why there’s suddenly an influx of American posters?

[Wonderwomam]

It seems every other thread I open is from an American poster. It’s all well, the more the merrier, but there’s some advice being given on some threads that just wouldn’t work here and vice versa. I can’t pin point each thing I’ve read as there’s so many. One example is about school problems; how can we advise someone living in another country how to sort school issues? The system is completely different.

I’m wondering was there some kind of big story like the bloody beaker that’s seen an influx of people from the US, or is MN just getting bigger and bigger?!

[TalkingintheDark]

WarpedGalaxy it’s the fact that in the US the only choice is between right wing misogynists who want to strip women of their human rights, and left wing misogynists who want to strip women of their human rights that’s the problem.

If the left hadn’t capitulated so entirely like this, and alienated so many people with this incomprehensible, totalitarian determination to deny basic reality and justice, maybe Trump wouldn’t have been elected in the first place, even with all the help he had from Russia.

You’re the country that is driving through double mastectomies on 13yo girls with LDs, FFS. WHY is there no left wing group standing up against this? Why are you leaving a vacuum for odious Christian Right groups to fill? That meeting was attended by left wing feminists from all over the States, because no one else is giving a platform to desperate parents.

And what happens in the US has a massive impact on what happens here - a lot of this bastarding misogyny disguised as progress was very definitely born in the USA so it very much is my lane too. If you know a way to stop your shit from spreading over the rest of the world, I’d be very grateful if you would implement it right now; in the meantime, the rest of us are very much going to have an opinion on the crap you export.

And actually, child abuse of all kinds, including the kind that TRAs promote, is everybody’s business, wherever in the world it happens.

[Ereshkigal]

You want to know why women on the left and center in the USA don't appear to be too concerned with TRAs and their encroachment on women's spaces?

Why do you think they went there? They were invited by American feminists.

[Chainormous]

I think we need to build a wall around the site.

[7salmonswimming]

Any anti-American MC snobbery on this site is just a reflection of anti-American MC snobbery in the UK generally.

[Chainormous]

Genuinely shocked that a mumsnet "feminist" attended an event sponsored by an anti-feminist group, for the sake of anti-trans allying.

Deranged.

And great post @WarpedGalaxy

[Ereshkigal]

As I said, they attended the event as left wing feminists because it was one of the only chances desperate parents of girls transitioning had to challenge the trans agenda and the government plans. The craven and identity politics riven left wing will not give these women a platform. As in this country.

[lljkk]

Am an American who has been on MN almost 18 yrs.
I've been attacked a lot on MN for many things but never felt attacked for the American-ness.
I struggle to write "mum" though. Keep thinking of these.

[NothingOnTellyAgain]

Agree that there seem to be more USA people posting which is fine apart from when occasionally they take their experience as universal and make baffling statements

Eg 'most women express a preference for men to be circumcised'

And everyone in the thread is???????

[QwertyLou]

I have not noticed a “sudden influx” of US posters.

I do see some anti-US sentiment at times. Not personal attacks, more a poster using “American” to mean crass, commercial or generally inferior to the True British Way.

I know no one is saying US posters are unwelcome, but there is a slight sense of “those confusing Americans - baffling up our discussion space, why!?” Which is not exactly welcoming

(I’m not in the UK or the US)

[pineapplebryanbrown]

I feel sorry for Americans on MN, they get very casually bashed over all sorts and it's a-ok. I used to live in the rural mid west before the internet and think MN really would have saved my bacon. Please say all y'all in every post - it's lovely.

[QwertyLou]

I love y’all too! And hello back, @Vampirelestat! I lived in Ireland for a year and loved it

[EKGEMS]

Fair enough I'm an American member however my late Grandmother had dual citizenship as she was British born-I also still have family in Britain,Ireland and Canada. We can all contribute positively

[blueskiesovertheforest]

In an ideal world opening posts would give all the key information, including country. How often is specifying a country (not a town but a whole country) "outing"?

However some people inevitably reply without having read the opening post properly (opening post "my 7 year old DD is in year 2, she says she's not tired at bedtime, any tips?" next post "how old is he OP, he'll be tireder when he starts nursery, let him stay up later til then" that there will always be some totally irrelevant advice on every thread.

Its really only posts where the original poster assumes readers have exactly the same background and situation and asks a question without providing key information that are totally pointlessly confusing - people who fail to mention they're talking about a private school or assume everyone reading is in Wales or London or Australia or wherever they are, or that everything works exactly the same way everywhere.

[longwayoff]

O dear. Into the mix I throw Meghan Markle. Glamorous, prince- stealing American beauty. Discuss.

[AndItStillSaidFourOfTwo]

I agree with PPs about the anti-Americanism on here. I do think that Britain has a huge post-colonial chip on its collective shoulder and a lot of the snobby about (putatively) American language, customs etc derives from this sense of unacknowledged British superiority. I also think the English middle classes in particular have quite a bit of difficulty with taking automatic account, when engaging with someone, of the fact that there are other ways of doing things. (I say this as a member of the English middle classes, albeit no longer living in the UK).