Can we have an unpopular opinions thread?

[AlwaysFuckingTired94]

For things that are agreed as gospel on MN

I'll start: I like dressing my kids in matching outfits and I really enjoy a Butlins holiday

I also don't think Nevaeh is that bad

How would they drugs test men for contraceptive use? Do you mean people on jobseekers allowance? Or disabled/ill people? Or both?

Breast is best,baby wearing cosleeping are all ways to socially control & constrict women. To burden them with time consuming and gender specific tasks that limit time to work,have activities beyond being mum

If anyone is actively pushing breast feeding,BLW,baby wearing,they’re diminishing your identity as individual and subsuming you to be mum,amorphous unwaged mum.ideally with a mn man who’s top of his game

terry I’ve commented on several disgusting posts on here.

I alsonchose that one as it exemplifies the fact that far too many people believe their opinion is so important that they don’t need to bother reading what anyone else has written.

TBH some of the comments on this thread make me sick. tigerroll in particular but there are plenty of others.

If you think it’s big and clever to spout bile like this then it says a lot about you.

Who's bashing SAHP? I was just saying they're not as busy.

When I was at home or even very part time, I was no way as busy as I am now. I'm not bashing them, but I wish they wouldn't protest that they're just as busy and it's just as hard, because I've been there and it isn't.

Evening, everyone. Just a reminder that unpopular opinions are fine (we're often quite unpopular ourselves), but posts that break our talk guidelines will be deleted.

Thanks!

There are plenty of absolute bastards on this thread.

Live and let live.

(And no, this isn’t a contradiction; I’m not going to have you killed because you are a bastard).

Some but not all Dad's staying over in maternity wards are a pain in the arse. Lying there snoring, not helping, whinging about other babies crying next door, going out for days every bloody 5 mins in the middle of the night. If you can't hack it stay at home.

People calling other people on here c*s absolutely no need for that.

Jeremy Corbyn must never be the next PM then neither should Johnson, Hunt, Gove or that creep Rees Mogg.

Fakebook should be banned for the sake of the planet's mental health.

Anybody who thinks recreational drugs are a laugh and do no real harm.

You don't need to have ££££ of savings before starting a family.

You don't need to be 35+, have a mortgage, be debt free and have a 'high flyer' DH before having a baby.

Renting is perfectly acceptable and doesn't make you a scummer.

Teaching is a decent profession.

It's ok to breathe in your back garden when the sun is out...

keeping pets is cruel

18 year olds should be able to look after themselves and as i have recently found myself surrounded by teenagers I know you are doing them a huge disservice not teaching them better

I leave my shoes on inside, and just the other day leg the milkman use the loo when he came to collect his money.

There's nothing better than an All Inclusive holiday.
Animals should be treated with equal respect to humans and anyone who abuses them or is pro-hunting is immoral.
There's no comedy like British comedy.
Primark clothes can be good quality and there's no need to judge those who wear them.
Coloured tattoos are vile.

*let

London would be a shit place to live. No thank you!

I quite like watching Peppa Pig. I know kids far more precocious than Peppa; usually the ones who haven't been allowed to watch it.

'Naice' is fucking cringe worthy, and effectively no different from people who use 'hun' or 'gawjus'.

Being sanctimonious about breastfeeding, fabricating stories about being shamed for breastfeeding in public, the women who can never decide whether breastfeeding is their 'super power' which makes them superior than those who formula fed or whether it's something 98% of mothers can do, and the vitriol that is fairly off putting to some will mean that breastfeeding is NEVER normalised.

I won’t have an aneurism if you touch my bump.
I don’t mind if my MIL or other people decide to visit right after the baby is born.
I like normal names for my baby.

Facebook has just reminded me of one I need to add.

It is not unique to give your child a relatively common name but spell it stupidly differently. Your child is going to have to constantly correct people.

Eg. Ayvah (Ava)

I followed Gina Ford’s Contented Baby book and I loved it...

I think Autism Spectrum is the new Attention Deficit Disorder and most people who say they have it don't. You can be shy, quiet, focused, or dislike being hugged and not be ASD.

A 16 year old is not old enough or mature enough to be having sex. I don't care if you say you moved out and were working and paying a mortgage at 16. 16 is still a child and you should be parenting your child.

And sorry, you are not an "emetophobe". Nobody likes vomiting or cleaning up vomit.

Breastfeeding is overrated. Fabulous if you want to breastfeed then you should be given the support to do so. But if your nipples are bleeding to the point your baby is throwing up blood, if you just aren’t producing enough milk, if you’re so sore that you dread doing it then for goodness sake give the poor mite a bottle. No baby in the developed world is going to come to harm because of formula, and past about six months nobody is going to care.

Equally waiting until the baby is six months old to ween. If that’s what works for you then fine, but studies are starting to turn back the other way now and there is very little clinical evidence that it makes any difference.

Cosleeping is dangerous and the only reason some advise a “safe” way is because they know that parents will do it anyway. And while the reasons are understandable, there are very valid reasons why it’s advised against. Nobody should ever cosleep based on the advice of a stranger on the internet.

Can’t see anything wrong with only being invited to the evening do of a wedding

Emma Thompson has always irritated me she is so pretentious though seemed to be loved on here recently have seen others feel the same way

What’s wrong with family and friends wanting to visit you after you have a baby and wanting a cuddle

Babies and young children don’t need strict routines (unless your work life dictates this)

Children out late at night (with adults) is fine and exciting for them

Many on MN seemed to be constantly enraged/upset that others have been rude to them

I don’t know anyone in real life who has been tutted at or negative remarks made towards them when bf in public

GOT’s is utter rubbish

I think Autism Spectrum is the new Attention Deficit Disorder and most people who say they have it don't. You can be shy, quiet, focused, or dislike being hugged and not be ASD.

Well for one thing no-one can "be ASD."
You can have ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Same as a person can have Autism. But a person can not be ASD or autism. You can be autistic, because that's an adjective, ASD is not. My god, are people so fucking stupid that they can't see that when they type it?
Then again you're stupid enough to believe people would lie about being autistic, so that probably answers my question. I'm curious, how do you decide who you think is lying about being autistic or not? Because most people won't be lying about having it, some might be "identifying as autistic" but most people will have an actual diagnosis. And no, a person won't get a diagnosis of autism by being "shy, quiet, focused and not liking hugs."

If only being autistic meant being quiet, shy and not liking hugs 😂