Opinions you have that aren't popular on mumsnet(2)

[Lockdowner35]

As the last thread reached 1000 posts

I will start

Jo Swinson would have do a better job than Boris on Coronavirus

*breastfeeding

I like Primark and buy a lot of my clothes from there. Most people can’t afford to buy from the brands often suggested on here like Mint Velvet etc.

I don’t see the problem with trans women.

I like Drag Queens and find them entertaining.

Not all men are bad or potential abusers and some women are really unpleasant and treat their husbands like shite.

I like Benidorm.

Center Parcs is just Butlins/Pontins/Haven for stuck up people and is overpriced.

Waitrose is over rated and over priced and Aldi is just as good.

Blair and Thatcher were cut from exactly the same distasteful neoliberal cloth. There wasn't a Rizzla to come between them, either for policy or megalomania.

Reading particular papers is not the problem; reading them uncritically is. (A variation on that theme is that things have come to a pretty pass when the Grauniad is less feminist than the Daily Mail and its female readership are deserting it in droves. Along with some of the better of their female journalists).

Discussion of what happens when there's a tension between the rights of particular groups is not 'phobic'. Said groups are distinct - despite incessant chanting of slogans to the contrary - and each have their own unique set of needs, problems, boundaries, and ultimate solutions.

It's not responsibility of women to solve everyone else's problems for them.

NB. I seriously couldn't give a flying aadvark's arse how other mothers feed their babies.

that the FWR board is crazy town. if all you can do when someone tries to engage you in debate is write them off as ‘woke’ or act as if they are an infiltrator with a nefarious agenda and a band of rabid activists backing them up you’re not really doing very well.

just because the man who wrote Father Ted put it on twitter doesn’t make an opinion exempt from criticism.

i don’t think many people showing concern about the safety of women in prison being compromised by trans women gave a single tiny shit about women in prison before.

and being all arch about people with blue hair doesn’t make you Dorothy Parker. it makes you sound ridiculous.

why was blue hair chosen as the hair colour to attack anyway?

Aldi and Lidl are shit.

@BounceyBumblebee I don't see how bottle feeding isn't putting the child's needs first though. You're feeding your baby suitable, nutritious food.
Multiple recent studies have found that in the 1st world there's only a marginal benefit of breastfeeding over formula feeding, once you adjust for factors such as socio-economic status (which affects health outcomes).
Insufficient milk intake from EBF is also the No1 reason for newborn re-admission to hospital. Then there are issues like pain, mastitis, sleep deprivation, undersupply, oversupply etc. I don't blame people for wanting to just bypass all that - maybe their mental health isn't up to it, or they need to go back to work early, are a single mum with other children to care for simply want to enjoy their new baby and bottle feeding works better for them.
I mean, breastfeed if you want to. But it doesn't make you a better mother over formula feeding mums.

@helloxhristmas
Dunno why this made me laugh....but it did 😂

Being a parent is putting the child's needs 1st.

Hahaha.

No.

First baby by any chance...?

@FoxyTheFox is ur username a fnaf reference?

No, its based on a daft joke I have with DH about how I was a hot young fox until he stole me away to a life of domestic drudgery (I do like a bit of fnaf though)

oh! sorry

i'm glad you did know what i meant though lol

It's okay, don't be sorry!

The benefits system in the UK is actually really generous to families with children.

If you are going to use donor conception ,you should put the childs needs first and if you cant do that then you should not be trying to create a child.

There is clear research and ethical guidance that people deliberately circumvent in order to feed their own egos (eg going abroad to ensure the donor is anonymous and your child isnt able to access the same things they would be under uk law) or using sperm donor of dubious origin with huge numbers of children

Tinned ham is nicer than the chilled ham that you buy for sandwiches.

Wired bras are just awful.

No one looks good in a turtle neck.

Blood tests hurt and we need to stop pretending that they don't 😂

There is way more than a "marginal difference" between breast milk and formula milk. Formula is cow's milk which is made for calf's. Not humans. In what world does manufactured milk with additives come close to food that's literally designed to suit the health needs of the person who receives it?! Anyone who thinks they are the same is kidding themselves.

The UK as a whole isnt racist at all.

The whole statue debacle would have resulted in prison sentences and riots in France, Italy, Spain etc - and I mean far right riots

Yes but most people can weigh up that benefit versus other things of benefit.

Like their own mental health being better if they aren’t what my friend charmingly called ‘a tit on a lead.’

I had PND which would have been worse if I hadn’t bottle fed. Fortunately I could weigh that up against the data on breast feeding, as I’m good at being balanced and rational.

That woke isnt really an insult

Systemic wokeism is the one of the biggest problems in the UK at the moment.

@JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows - great thanks for that - another way to hammer home the message that those of us who failed to breastfeed are inferior mothers. This is not an unpopular opinion on MN - it is clear from virtually all the feeding threads that those of us who aren't able to start or carry on with breastfeeding are lesser mortals.

But nice to have it confirmed for the umpteenth time that the breastfeeding queens are indeed so far above us!

Modern feminism seems to have little to say to women who can't or choose not to have children.