aibu to think mn should be for mums and not dads.

[2hot2cook]

id like to think that when i come on here for a quick chat im talking to other women. ive noticed some men on here and thats actually putting me off. some of the topics we talk about are very intimate. i cant understand why men would want to come on this website, maybe the name should be changed to parentnet. aibu.

this is by parents for parents

if men have children, then most likely they know about things like, period, sex, TTC, birth, vaginas. that sort of thing

i got some super advice from a MAN on here when my DD suddenly started going nuts at bedtime.

99% of mn threads are not threads that would interest exclusively women though.

And I don't think any of the men on here would post on threads where it would be inappropriate iyswim. Also pretty much all the men on here make it fairly obvious in their names that they are men, so they're not hiding behind an ambiguous nickname.

I know for a fact there are other people who share your view on here though, although it's nice to see the opinions so far on this thread don't support it.

nothing to to with sex, flirting, etc, theres a million websites out there for that. my point is, cant women have a website just for us! i dont care if the woman is gay, shes a woman. its just makes me a bit uncomfortable that im talking to a man when i dont want to be.

So just ignore the men. You'll be rude, but happy.

THEN STOP TALKING, DOOFUS!

aDad! are you a MAN!

sorry

i think , as has been pointed out, people are not always what they seem on the internet, people can portray all sorts of different personas and not be who they appear to be.

can you explain more why it would be uncomfortable... ? do you talk to men in RL?

Why would that make you uncomfortable though? Men are just people?

ROFL @ Colditz!

look here

me? no, of course I'm not a man.

oh alright then, yes I am.

But as aDad has said if the subject is very personal/too girly the guys on here probably wouldnt bother taking part anyway so ultimately you would be talking to just the women! Besides, I bet loads of DHs read over MNers shoulders or have access to the site etc so you never know if they're there or not.

If I want to come on here and talk about the most intimate of things then it bothers me not a jot that a man may be reading, or even advising if his wife has been through same.

Not like he can see me, knows who I am etc.

Most doctors are men! Do you refuse to talk to them too!?

Sorry, ranted a bit there, just think you are being very unreasonable

I also this this thread is pretty bloody insulting to all the male posters, the vast majority of whom have been here longer than 1 month

I really want to know WHY it makes you uncomfortable!

are you mad..i wish there were more men on mn..sadly there are proportionately about as many men on mn as there are in my life at the mo lol

"this this"? think this

My Dp is on car forums and the such, and guess what, some of the posters are women

I think you're being incredibly sexist and if my DP was to post a similar question as to whether or not women should be on his crappy forums I expect you'd be up in arms.

Sexism is against BOTH sexes, Y'know.

I have more things to worry about that whether an invisible man is fantasising about my invisible body just because he read something I wrote anonymously on an internet forum.

Sorry I took the piss, I'm feeling minxy, but really, come on, in the nicest possible way "Get a Grip"

Colditz wtf???!

well said colditdz

Some of the funniest posters on MN are dads.

It is a parenting forum you know.

thing is, 2hot, even if you start a thread, an no men post, you don;t even know if they will ahve read the thread.. in fact you don;t know who has read the thread, male or female, you cannot be selective or maintain privacy from other posters on a forum

that 'wtf' was about the link!! I just bought it!!

Maybe you could start your own parenting site, make it members only but have any prospective members squat over their webcam, sans pants, before admitting them? Make sure they do not have husbands, brothers, uncles, dads or sons who might come into contact with their computer first though.