To find Mumsnet to be very Victorian?

[Calltheguards]

I'm not sure if maybe this was always the case and I'm just slow to pick up on it but... AIBU to find Mumsnet very Victorian? It seems like a lot of people post here just to shame others and like to control/dictate behaviour. In a historical context the shame aspect reminds me of the Victorian Era with individuals gossiping amongst neighbours to join in. Flaming the OP for having feelings that are contrary to the majority seems a bit of a sport.

Is Mumsnet the technical modern age answer to Victorian Era levels of propriety and shame? I'm just posting this for discussion of an observation and wondering if this was always the point of this website.

Does anyone really care that much what people on MN think that they would actually change their behaviour? I don't think so.

Yawn there are always threads like this. MN is a certain demographic. Everyone thinks their little part of the world - their friends, their lifestyle and their opinions are the "real world" so if the opinions of MN doesn't align with that you start to think they're Victorian/out of touch/Uptight. Just like some of the posters you criticise would think you're clueless/lazy/whatever other pejorative they want to come up with to describe your opinion as it doesn't match their normal.

I disagree. I think you get quite a wide range of responses on here. There seems to be people from all walks of life.

Or read any social history of Victorian times which ran, if it helps, from 1819-1901, so quite a long time.

Is anyone this thick?

Don't know about anyone else, but i can't get the image out of my head now of mumsnetters dressed in victorian clothing, laying on the chaise lounge ( sp?) with smelling salts and clutching their pearls, after reading something deemed as unmentionable on the site.
Which is making me snigger like a schoolgirl.

Everyone is different and will always have different opinions, life would be boring if we were all the same. Some people struggle to accept that though i suppose.

Only the wealthy lay on a chaise the rest of the population struggled and died early. Birth control changed so much.

It’s like a Home for the Perpetually Clenched

I prefer Home for the Totally Delusional!

I love the use, over-use, of the phrase 'called out', it beings to mind swashbucklers slapping each other across the face with leather gauntlets and having a duel, Heidelburg scars and all!

Aw. Remember the IPOAT threads. They were fun.

The values of the period—which can be classed as religion, morality, Evangelicalism, industrial work ethic, and personal improvement—
Haha! Apart from the religion bit I would say those values are highly prized on MN!
I once confessed to getting a short arse 7 year old free into something that was free to 5 and under...oh! The stealing! The wanton disregard for rules
Also, clean eating is next to Godliness.

There's at least one critical difference - it's not remotely Victorian to LTB 😉

There's at least one critical difference - it's not remotely Victorian to LTB 😉
Jane Eyre did, but she ended up getting sucked back in despite knowing how wife 1 had been treated.

Saskia,shall I explain posting on mn to you?i post my comment,observation
If it isn’t prefixed with you said ,it quite simply means I’m not saying you said...
Irked?yes you seem it.Making Unsubstantiated Accusations that op is a troll