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AIBU?

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

882 replies

2hot2cook · 06/10/2007 12:39

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.

OP posts:
LadyHex · 10/10/2007 21:51

this thread is very silly
the OP is winding every up
and if not, that is even worse!

LoRayningNewtsAndFrogs · 10/10/2007 21:51

WTF???
Men have me exactly where they want me???
Oh aye

meemar · 10/10/2007 21:52

"and do women really have male friends? i dont know ANY that do"

ok, this has made me realise we are on a completely different wavelength. I can see where your OP is coming from now, although I don't agree with it at all.

Habbibu · 10/10/2007 21:53

Yes, 2hot, my husband would be fine about it, he is, they do, ffs.Why wouldn't he be? I married him - we've been through lots together, I love him and don't want to have sex with anyone else. It's called being a grown-up. A

And I think you should apologise to Lorayn. That was bloody rude and offensive.

ChantillyLace · 10/10/2007 21:53

I think the problem is 2hot that you are overwhelmed by the posts against your thread and you are now clutching at straws and coming up with weak, childish sounding comments because you don't know what else to say.

I cannot believe that a woman in this day and age actually thinks (or not) the way you do.

So yes, probably a wind-up after all!

bumperlicious · 10/10/2007 21:55

I have male friends round for a coffee. I used to do 1-1 yoga sessions with my male yoga teacher at my house. My DH didn't mind.

and re: your early comments about changing nappies, well DH isn't always particularly happy about it but then neither am I! I find it very tedious! But he does it most of the time when he is home.

I suspect that if my DH did come on here he would very quickly become addicted, as he did to Newlyweds when I have been watching it recently. He pretended he wasn't interested but then later said "oh, did Jessica like the wardrobe Nick made her?"

2hot2cook · 10/10/2007 22:02

fine, if thats how you want to be. but i would be the one still with you, while all the men had pissed off to the pub. thought i had a valid point, not "clutching at straws" other way around i think. but you all proved to the men how lovely you all are, and how much you really want and need them.........as if they give a shit what you think.

OP posts:
meemar · 10/10/2007 22:03

2hot, why are you so down on men?

sillybilly2006 · 10/10/2007 22:05

I'm new on here and on my first day feel instantly offended! This is not what I thought this site would be about.

There is nothing at all 2hot2 that you could not talk to me about. I have seen it all, and then some, trust me. There is nothing you could have to discuss that I do not have experience of.

ScottishMummy · 10/10/2007 22:05

still digressing to disguise your poor OP wont work, OP remains unsound and untenable

ChantillyLace · 10/10/2007 22:07

Believe me if the men pissed off to the pub I'd be going with them. If you were with me then you would be available to babysit. Trust me when I say I do not need men, more like they need me!

LoRayningNewtsAndFrogs · 10/10/2007 22:08

2hot, maybe your husband is one of those men that disappears off down the pub at every given opportunity, I think you need to readdress the balance in your relationship before you judge everyone to be the same.

FWIW, my DP has been out twice in the last year, both times with work friends, male and female. If I need him, he is often there before I ask, and from what I can gather, as are many other men, both on this site and other husbands/partners to mumsnetters.

LadyHex · 10/10/2007 22:08

2hot, not sure why your last post was so rude, tbh.
you said you thought you were reasonable for this site to have female posters only.
most people disagreed with you.

just because we like having a mix of both male and female posters, does not mean we are enslaved to our menfolk.

your arguments do not make sense.

I really hope this thread is a wind-up, because if you really believe everything you have posted, you sound like quite an unhappy person.

sillybilly2006 · 10/10/2007 22:08

lol CL

Seriously 2hot2 - are you going to answer me or do you hate men that much!?

LoRayningNewtsAndFrogs · 10/10/2007 22:09

sillybilly, please just ignore her ramblings, I think she fell out of bed and had a bump a few days ago. Back to the days of yore and all that.

Habbibu · 10/10/2007 22:10

Stop it, 2hot. Stop it now. Fine, have your own opinions, but stop your offensive attacks. How dare you assume that men "don't give a shit what you think"? How dare you assume that because the women on here get on with me they are somehow pathetic and needy? Maybe you have had some very unfortunate experiences/attitudes drummed into you, but don't you dare generalise from your particular and clearly unusual experiences to make wholesale attacks on the many brilliant women and men here. I've tried to support you where I thought you were making valid points but now you're just being a cow, frankly.

ChantillyLace · 10/10/2007 22:11

I think 2hot is someone to be pitied if indeed they are for real.

How sad to go through life thinking this way.

I have friends of both sexes, a fantastic DH that does more than his fair share and I am happy! Unlike some I could mention

sillybilly2006 · 10/10/2007 22:12

Thank you LoRayn I will. Thank goodness the majority seem to be nice ordinary women with no hang-ups!

ThePhantomToiletFlusher · 10/10/2007 22:15

Lets hope 2hots cleared off for the night, hopefully to brush that huge chip from her shoulder.......

ChantillyLace · 10/10/2007 22:16

Hope she can manage without the help of DH! Heaven forbid!

2hot2cook · 10/10/2007 22:16

sillybilly; i dont hate men, i love men, but just not all the time. im not rude, just a bit upset. ( grabs the brandy bottle )

i thought the women on here would support me a bit more thats all.

sorry to anyone ive pissed off.

OP posts:
LoRayningNewtsAndFrogs · 10/10/2007 22:17

Exactly chantilly, certainly think many of us posting here with our helpful DH/DP's and male friends are alot happier than one I could bring to mention

Maybe we should invite 2hot to that old thread of ours, see if she can answer 'how many' in such a clever way

ThePhantomToiletFlusher · 10/10/2007 22:17
Grin
sillybilly2006 · 10/10/2007 22:18

Not sure all of them will accept your apology from what I've read, and that hasn't been all of the thread I have to admit. Enough to get the gist of it though. Think your problems may run deeper, and the answer is not in the bottom of a brandy bottle

ChantillyLace · 10/10/2007 22:19

pmsl LoRayn! Now that would be interesting

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