AIBU or is Mumsnet particularly hysterical?

[hellisotherpeopleandhorlicks]

In the last twenty minutes I've read threads on societal collapse, civil unrest, war all breaking out in the next year. I've seen people hysterically telling an OP to leave a husband or slept in accidentally, and others encouraging people to panic buy for Brexit while disputing the fact that what they are encouraging is in fact panic buying.

Is Mumsnet generally a good representation of people's views in your circles do you find? Or do people post their true feelings here, ones they wouldn't speak out loud do you think? IE anxieties about things like civil unrest?

I'm just curious really as to whether people read threads on mumsnet and feel that they're a bit OTT and scare mongering or whether they think they're a good representation of the general vibe in their area or circle?

Ah. It is not a "modern" use. It is a use that has various connotations around an illiberal understanding of feminism and mental illness.

Like the term "psychotic" or indeed the terms "mongol" or "imbecile" or "cretin" (I could go on) which have specific medical meanings and also are used as terms of insult or negative terms in wider usage, usually by people who don't understand their implications.

If that's how you want to roll, your choice.

Yes I've noticed. There are so many strange people on here.

MN is a complete different world to my real-life world, and I mean completely different!

Much less dramatic, less conflictual and more chilled out Thank God!

Also the double standards when it comes to sexism is quite something!

Sarah was behaving like a typical hysterical female.

Sarah had a rather over the top, even slightly hysterical reaction to a news story about a kitten.

One offensive, one not?

@randomer

Sarah was behaving like a typical hysterical female.

Sarah had a rather over the top, even slightly hysterical reaction to a news story about a kitten.

One offensive, one not?

What happened to the kitten?

Language evolves. The word hysterical means an over the top reaction due to emotion, perhaps due to fear, being dramatic and attention seeking behaviour...

The kitten wouldn't eat it's dinner so person claimed it would die of starvation ....quite an hysterical reaction.

It's a bit over the top at times.mEspecially the parcel and delivery threads. It's a wonder it's not classed as a high risk occupation.

@RationalOne

The kitten wouldn't eat it's dinner so person claimed it would die of starvation ....quite an hysterical reaction.

I love you @randomer. As a grammar pedant, it gives me huge pleasure to see an hysterical.

Shit. I meant RationalOne!

The kitten, sadly ,had brushed against some fabric conditioner and was being shunned by the rest of the other kitties.

@randomer

The kitten, sadly ,had brushed against some fabric conditioner and was being shunned by the rest of the other kitties.

I can see why Sarah was upset about it.

I’m quite new to Mumsnet and I have been absolutely floored by some of the responses to threads. When a woman is having issues with a DH/DP, no matter if it’s just a simple annoyance or irritation (to which we are all guilty of) the overwhelming response is to LTB 🤷🏽‍♀️ I saw a thread the other night where a lady had inadvertently taken a bag for life for her shopping and hadn’t paid, was humiliated by a security guard and the Mumsnetter’s were shouting JAIL, THIEF, DEGENERATE...over a bloody plastic bag.

I would like to hope it’s not the real world as it would be a genuinely crazy place if everyone reacted as they do on here.

And I think hysterical is the right word. Yes it has misogynistic overtones and it’s rooted in the oppression of ill and traumatised women but by god, some of the posters on here really do give weight to the use of the term in this way, in my opinion.

And before anybody jumps on me, I’m a feminist, I hate the patriarchy and I’m aware of how women have been and still are oppressed and how language can shape views and perspectives. But some threads on Mumsnet could be used as evidence for bringing the diagnosis of hysteria back.

I've had a hystericalectomy , that helps.

@2bazookas I've had a total hystericalectomy with a bi-lateral sense of humour bypass.

It provides the Mumsnet madness twitter account with a constant supply of source material, as well as on some occasions, the Daily Mail etc. mobile.twitter.com/mumsnet_madness

Is MN particularly hysterical? Yes. It is increasingly insane, barking, and frothing like a supercharged cappuccino... Bonkers, tonto, loco, cuckoo bananas, bizarro world, bat-shit crazy... A sane, measured post makes me pause in my tracks and breathe slowly. It soon passes.

I think the pressure of denial is causing a mass losing of the mind.

Can someone explain how 'hysterical' is misogynistic? genuine question! Not goady

I just wish that when I have invested myself in a thread which has disturbed me greatly that the fecking OP would return to explain a few things..

I having a great giggle reading this thread, with so many posters saying “oh yes, everyone else on here is nuts and totally over the top” while recognising some of the usernames from other threads and thinking to myself “I know you. I remember some of your posts”.

I think @Eckhart hit the nail on the head a couple of pages ago. There are such a huge number of users, and people only post when they are invested, so the strong opinions aren’t diluted as they are IRL by all of the people who just aren’t all that bothered. Opinion is weighted.

I also love every last one of you to bits and think this forum is great

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480686/

Background

My favourite bonkers thread was the one where a bunch of posters told the OP, a landlord having some problem with the tenants, she should give the tenants the house! Very odd.

@cbt944

My favourite bonkers thread was the one where a bunch of posters told the OP, a landlord having some problem with the tenants, she should give the tenants the house! Very odd.

If you mean this thread, it's one bonkers person rather than a bunch of people - other posters point out how ludicrous it is. And it's a very difficult situation for the landlord - "some problems" completely understates it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/property/2201323-I-want-to-evict-a-tenant-who-has-been-there-for-40-years

If you mean another thread, then please link it, and I'll have a good laugh reading it.

If you mean another thread, then please link it, and I'll have a good laugh reading it.

Not that one. I can't recall enough of the specifics to find it. Then again, maybe I hallucinated it, being somewhat hysterical myself.