Mumsnet is blowing my mind

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Literally blowing my mind and getting me thinking about so many different topics/ different opinions etc so much so I feel I have a mini debate in my head over everything now 😂
Do you find this to ?
Which topics / discussions have really spoken to you ?

Mn opened my eyes to the trans issues and being gender critical. I don't post, occasionally comment but I do read.

It's made me see exactly how much crap women are prepared to put up with with the men in their lives. This saddens me though.

It's also helped with depression and anxiety and reading those threads gave me the push I needed to seek help. I wasn't alone.

Used to dismiss Mumsnet as a time-waster for SHMs (I was wrong!) but have completely changed my mind after visiting the feminist board. Serious and robust discussion, very informative, priceless really.

I went all the way through being a Mum of small children without so much as glancing at MN and it would have been so useful!

Only found it once my children’s were at uni, now I spend my life on the Feminism boards, along with Style, Property, AIBU.... the list goes on.
I am in awe of the wonderful, knowledgable women on FWR. I do post occasionally, and I have the T-shirt and stickers to prove it!

I love it. It's like an online, more up to date WI (and I say that as a compliment!)

another addict here too.
Only downside is the money I spend after reading buying/recommended pages on here.
But saying that, I’ve been pleased with my purchases 😉

I wish MN had existed when I had my dc.
The bereavement board saved me and supported me when my son died.
I have learned so much from the feminism boards.
MN is a fantastic resource.

Ive been here for 14 years, never managed to leave for longer than a few months at a time. It is such an amazing community and resource - for entertainment, support and activism. Saved my sanity countless times, opened my mind to things I would never have thought about before and really educated me. So many clever, empathetic, admirable women.

I think over those years I have used almost every board, but mainly I come for the Feminism board.

I'm here because I'm a Yank who has always been fascinated by British culture and MN is a terrific window into it. DH, while also a Yank, lived and worked in London before we met, so it gives me a bit of insight into that time of his life. It's also just great to get the different perspectives than I would on a primarily American platform.

At first it was just a laugh, i stumbled upon AIBU about 11 years ago while googling something else, and found it hilarious. Someone moaning about M&S iirc.

Then when we lost DC4 i turned to MN and the help and support i found deeper on the MN boards saved my sanity. Really saved me. I was on those boards for around 2 years and I will never forget some of the names of the wonderful posters who read my posts and responded with wisdom and sympathy and became my rocks.

These (happier) days I jump between here, Chat, S&B and relationships and honestly my conversation with folk in real life is massively richer, more understanding and knowledgeable for it. Half the time i've read all about an issue on here long before it breaks on the news and I find have to try hard not to keep saying ''i read on MN bla bla bla'' because it must sound as if i'm here reading every.single.day ..... i mean, how ridiculous!
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HeartZone - Only downside is the money I spend after reading buying/recommended pages on here.

Yes! Same here. Although, as you say, i've never regretted it.

These message boards have helped me inordinately. I've had so much advice from baby dramas, to a mental health crisis and a nasty employment issue. Now, the feminism chat board is proving invaluable in helping me navigate a very complicated chapter in the history of women's rights.

Oh god, totally life-changing. I came for the ante-natal boards and so wish I'd discovered it sooner. I used to get irritated by the trans thread titles then had a look at the FWR board and had my mind blown. I don't post on them much but I'm influencing in my own little way IRL with friends/acquaintances/family/purchasing power (looking at you, ocado).

The feminist boards have really made me look at my stance on GC issues, not something I had ever considered.

The Westminster threads over the last couple of years have been amazing, I know stuff often before it reaches mainstream news papers. DH will say have you seen this article and I will look and reply, oh that was covered on mumsnet a couple of days ago.

I love reading through the feminist boards, I rarely comment on them though.

The FwR is what peak transed me. I was all liberal and wokey woke and thought MN was becoming transphobic. Then I thought to myself ‘well, MN has never let me down so far, maybe I should at least check out what they’re saying before I flounce of into the ‘right side of history.’

So I checked out a couple of threads and I was like, wooaaahhhh. So cogently argued. The clarity of thought just smashes through all the fluffy vague BS. I'm now an put-and-proud GCF!

I don't have children and can't even remember why I first came to MN years ago but it was interesting enough to make me stay. They call us a nest of vipers and I can live with that because I know that we are much much more.

I'm mostly on the AIBU and Chat Boards where every subject under the sun is discussed. I love the Baby Names Board - some of the suggestions are utterly bonkers - I've suggested Ichabod for a boy but no-one has used it for their son ... yet

I'm amazed by the Relationship Board and the wealth of experience and support that is offered when someone needs help and advice.

Because people on here are predominantly left wing and I'm a Tory voter, I do sometimes feel I'm being battered a bit when the discussion is political but I give as good as I get

I tried Reddit and just don't get it so guess I'll stick around here

Agree!

MN opened my eyes just a few weeks ago that I was in an emotionally abusive relationship. It woke me up to the fact that I had to leave. It helped me realise that organisations such as Women's Aid exist, and that I am entitled to legal aid. Mumsnet eased my guilt regarding the fact that my son isn't seeing his dad due to him being emotionally abusive towards me. It's made me ok again. It all sounds like I'm quite dependant on it, and I guess in a way I am as I'm still suffering abuse, and can post at any time of day and hopefully get a response. Mumsnet really changed my life.

My friends and family think I have been radicalised by mn because I constantly refer to it.

I really think most people live in an echo chamber and have never ever been disagreed with in real life.

It helped us find our feet in our relationship - it gave me a million dilemmas to pose to my then DP (while I was also doing the Freedom Program). He's now my DP. My kids love the moral dilemmas that I pose to them too.

Another one who's life would have been so different had I discovered this in my 20/30s, my god I would've been unstoppable.

OP - MN did this for me in 2011, it switched my brain back on and gave me critical thinking skills. That encouraged me to go back to uni (and get a first) brought out my inner radfem and made me question my internal dialogue.

What a forum

Completed opened my mind has this place. I bloody love it 😊

Agreed. So many different viewpoints.

The things I've learnt that people do (mostly housework) - that I never realised was supposed to be a 'thing'

But the humour and the support, is wonderful.

I love the parking threads. And the Masterchef threads.

I learnt that people hate it in a self-service restaurant if you go the counter and order your food/drink while the rest of the family sits down.