to suggest that Mumsnet is quite sexist against men?

[Eckhart]

I don't know if it's just the threads I've been on. I don't know how many men use Mumsnet.

Sexism either way makes me equally uncomfortable. How do other Mumsnet users feel about this?

Just replying to a different poster about a thread where there's lots of different views from women, ranging from defending the man (me included), lambasting the man, through to ridiculous nonsense where women should pander to poor men and bring him his cup of tea on a morning.

It's almost like women can, and do, give a range of advice depending on the situation.

Panic
Totally poor little lambs.
Heaven forbid there's thread after thread of many women all holding different views and debating and disagreeing and giving a range of advice.
MN is a hive mind where everyone has to agree don't you know.

@PanicAndRun You're just being openly and blatantly goady and mean. Have you anything intelligent to add to the debate or are you joining @LolaSmiles now, and purely posting things to put me/my posting style down?

Oh the irony.

now, and purely posting things to put me/my posting style down?
I replied to a different poster about a different example.

Panic
Quite.
Replying to you and another poster has now led to claims I'm putting the OP down.
But they're not being goady at all...

Sexism against men doesn’t exist. Sexism is about the power systems and institutions that keep women in a lesser place and all of those things favour men in our society.

@PanicAndRun @LolaSmiles Have you anything intelligent to add to the debate? It's a y or n question. If you do, then add it.

busybarbara So what is it if a woman says she hates a man and when you ask her why, she says 'Because he's a MAN.' There must be a name for that?

@LolaSmiles cue 'OP is being disingenuous again'

Misandary?

Quite OP

There's lots of room for interesting debate, but only if that's with someone genuinely interested in issues and who approaches it in a non goady way. Posters who can separate challenges to posts from false claims of character assassination and playing the victim to suit.

Personally, I found it really interesting to agree with some posters up thread who I often differ in opinions with (and who on this thread I've differed with on some things and not others).

The more the thread goes on, the more textbook sealion it becomes. It's essentially pigeon chess.

There's lots of room for interesting debate, but only if that's with someone genuinely interested in issues and who approaches it in a non goady way.

So that excludes Lola, Sagrada,Panic et Al then

@LolaSmiles No further points to make on the topic at hand then.

In that case, I will say what a sealion would never say: The end.

Lordy lola your inbox must be buzzing with all these "@"s
Now I know the OP has been asked by other posters not to do this so I wonder why she persists?
Really need to find the hide button.

@Lola we had a healthy debate recently about family admin .

The hive mind failed on that one.

We did indeed panic.
It's amazing really. Who'd have thought women could have a range of interesting and differing views, agree on some issues and not on others?

I went over to Style and Beauty a couple of times, Lola. Very helpful.

autumn I venture there occasionally and then remember I'm not stylish at all and would lose all the style points for my skinny jeans, stripey tops, and so on. The list is lengthy.

Is it a twitter thing the tagging?

Is it a twitter thing the tagging?

I think it's because MN have introduced the feature as an icon on the page, so to highlight a name if you click on the @ sign on the page it lists all of the posters on that thread. It's only really on FWR that people ask not to be tagged. On other threads everyone does it.

The tagging seems to be based on Twitter, and automatically highlights a poster's name in bold. You have to go into 'customise' to tell MN to stop sending notifications to you e.g. to your email.

It must be exhausting putting in all the hours to defend the menz. One can only hope that they will extend the courtesy to us mere wimmin?

Nah hearhooves it annoys me everywhere I go.
It has a place when you want to be sure a poster reads something and they maybe haven't posted for a while - but on an active thread with regular updates it feels a bit like someone jabbing their finger in your face. Totally unnecessary.

I kind of agree but it wasn't until someone explained to me how to highlight a posters name without using the @ function that I realised there was another way.

I suppose the only "official" way to do it is by using @ unless people explain how to do it differently.

That excludes Sagrada then

Nah, I'm genuinely interested in these issues, pal. Why else would I bother engaging in them.

Someone had to explain to you how to type out a name, Hear? 🤣