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To think hate speach against mums on Instagram / YouTube should be make a crime

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Bekindnotabully · 06/09/2020 13:42

With social media it's allowed amazing ways to communicate with people. But it's also allowed trolling and harrasment to happen at unprecedented scale.

Sites like tattle life and increasing Mumsnet allow people to troll women that make their living out of social media and the current rules in place don't allow the police to identify and bring to justice the trolls. You can pretty much say what you like including bullying someone over their appearance and their parenting with zero repreciousons. It's not on and needs to change.

I could go on but aibu to think these rules need to change? People are taking their own lives and the government did not approve my petition to afford people on social media greater human rights protection.

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YettaTessieMarmelstein · 09/09/2020 10:49

This thread is perhaps proof that there is such a thing as bad publicity

KatherineJaneway · 10/09/2020 06:32

I'd never heard of Susie before, this thread was not a great introduction.

MrsToothyBitch · 11/09/2020 09:15

@KatherineJaneway neither had I. Between this and other mn threads about her, trust pilot, tattle and her own insta, I don't think I'll be booking!

Also comments across the platforms about concern for followers/users who seemed very "stuck" on their analysis yet still struggling etc doesn't strike me as the best advertising for your brand, either. It doesn't suggest to me that these people have got their confidence back or gained anything useable from their analysis. A recent post on the insta about hour glass styling show cased the wonders of belting for the boobs & belly- I can imagine it being ok on the first dress in the slide- I'm a short, booby hourglass who needs to work on her abs- and I'd probably manage to pull it off. However, the denim boilersuit in the second would surely make me - or probably anyone but the Duchess of Cambridge or a VS Angel- look like an escapee from Cell Block H. It was the type of item that would "wear" the wearer if you gave it so much as an inch of nerves. I think it would be hard to style it to feel confident in it (I'd have wicked camel toe, bulgy inner thighs and no body definition, sexy) and whilst I believe that to a certain extent you can & should wear what you like, so much of pulling it off is happiness in your skin. I have the confidence to say- I really don't think I should/could wear that, it's just not me, even though I am a bleak-mid-winter mango with delusions of grandeur etc, and just pick something else that I felt good in. I'm not sure some of the SBS clients do, or that they know it's ok to break the rules, that they're not obliged to wear an item they struggle with.

I can imagine lots of people trying to style it and getting that sinking feeling when you know it's just not quite there somehow, especially given the SBS demographic. I know they try to show that nothing is off limits but I can see that outfit giving someone a real knock back. Confused
My chiropractor would love her though, I'm sure he'd love me to just wear chunky trainers, DMs or Birk type sandals 24/7!

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