To think that reading Mumsnet gives you a pretty poor view of the male race

[DownToTheSeaAgain]

Just that really. Unfortunately it seems, in the main, to be justified.

AIBU?

Millions of people are eking out hand to mouth existences in what is objectively one of the ten wealthiest countries on the planet. IMO my first point of issue would be the capitalist system rather than the supposed patriarchy. Address feminist issues by all means but most multinational employers are colour blind, sex blind etc when it comes to paying the absolute minimum they can get away with. Also blame human stupidity of course, given for example. how many are today ready to embrace the possibility food and medical shortages and shrink the economy to ‘regain sovereignty’. Chopping off a hand to heal the finger.

Reading MN gives me a terrible view of British females.

Wimpy, never stand up for selves, put up with piles of crappy treatment

except

the ones who are hyper-oversensitive neurotic control-freak anxietics who fume because the dishwasher was loaded wrong or their partner made one bad taste joke. It's a sea of frothy uptightness.

not to mention

The people who hugely project their own issues onto OPs to rant about their soapbox issue. "Your situation means XYZ because it happened to me, this bad behaviour is always due to ABC" with OP meekly piping up "ABC & XYZ aren't part of my story in any way."

Makes a lot of women look very bad, over-emotional, bad listeners, obsessed with unimportant details, zero resilience...

One of the reasons I enjoy MN is that it makes me appreciate my life, relatives and friends in a whole new way. Like watching soaps or reality tv and then turning it off and returning to my real life

I'm with you on that.

Yes but it’s obviously incredibly biased: very few people would think about posting how delightful their husbands/partners/male relatives are.

If they did, they'd probably be told off for stealth boasting.

And the vast majority of women are not leaving school with excellent a levels and excelling at uni and going on to lucrative careers. The majority are fucking out of education as soon as they can and embarking, at best, on careers that, even with time gaining the necessary qualifications and years of experience, pay barely above nmw

This 2017 article claims that 49% of people under 30 go on to higher education, and with the gender gap being what it is, that means more than half of women.

www.google.co.jp/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/education/2017/sep/28/almost-half-of-all-young-people-in-england-go-on-to-higher-education

I don't take the Guardian as gospel but do you have any sources at all that say that the bast majority of women leave education as early as they can?

I agree with @YeOldeTrout. I've always known that lazy, misogynistic and abusive men are common in the world. But OMG what is wrong with so many women that they set up house (and keep having kids) with them? I think the vast majority of women I know in rl value themselves more highly than those in Mumsnetworld.

No, it generally makes me feel sorry for the men! It does make me despair of the female of the species though. Mumsnet makes us look pretty pathetic...fortunately, it doesn't seem replicated in the females I know. A favourite seems to be a complete misunderstanding of what 'gaslighting is. God save us from women.

My view of the male race is based on men I know and have known. Not on the experiences of strangers.