Things that mostly only happen on mumsnet

[Imyourvenus]

Heres mine;

You must love MIL even if she is a bitch toad from hell

You must never say anything negative about anyone on benefits

Admitting to having no friends

Every 3rd person is NC with their family

Having a nanny

I’m sure I have more

I don't know why my earlier message was deleted about the transphobia on the Feminist board. There is transphobia there in droves!!!

Because it's a lie.

The FWR forum is concerned with WOMEN's rights. That's what feminism does, and has done, since the year dot. The clue is in the name 'Feminism'.

It's not as if women don't already have hard enough lives: just look at the statistics of the number of women killed at the hands of men. Yet the Twitter handle CountingDeadWomen has received egregious abuse, rape and death threats for having the temerity to point out the fact.

Women have our work cut out for us: it is NOT our job to fight everyone else's battles for them in addition, nor to cede over our hard-earned rights merely because we've been told to roll over and capitulate.

The word is no. 'NO'.

@Migrainesbythedozen

I think you are ignorant and femphobic, @RainbowBriteUk . There is no transphobia on this site, let alone on the Feminist board. Whenever their are actual transphobic comments when they're reported they are removed.*

Women saying that a man can never change sex, and that they deserve to have safe spaces based on SEX, not 'identity' is not transphobic, it is plain safeguarding. Why do you think our foresisters fought so hard for decades for safeguarding for women and safe spaces?

Just for a person with a penis to 'say' they are a woman, and gain access? Shit that's open to abuse isn't it? And as has been proven by the assaults on women in changerooms, prisons and spas. Look up the WiSpa incident.

Muslim women have a right to be in a spa without seeing male genitals. This is common sense.

Domestic violence and rape survivors have a right to be in a spa without seeing male genitals. This is common sense. You are naive and deeply misinformed and are harming women and girls. Please wake up.

This in spades. All this wankery like chestfeeding, people with uteruses, 'actresses are now ACTORS,' and the pregnant bastard MAN emoji on fucking APPLE!

FUCK OFF!

Why do the wants and desires of the WOKE and the trans community trump MY rights as a WOMAN?

As some others have said, I am sick of womens rights being eroded, and the attempts to airbrush women from society/the world. We have fought so hard for so many years to be treated reasonably, and not be groped and catcalled, and to have the same chances at work, and now we're all going backwards again, with all this anti-woman SHIT.

It's all the fucking wokies causing this. I will be SOOOOO glad when wokery is assigned to the history books, because it really gets me down. I am sick of it all. You can't say shit! Especially on that vile far-left extremist wokie echo chamber TWITTER!

The funny thing is, if you want to a men's forum and undermined a serious issue regarding men's rights and safety (most likely by lying about what they were saying(, you might be pissed off when you got deleted, but you wouldn't be puzzled as to why. You'd know exactly why. You'd probably have posted in the expectation of it happening.

This is a thread about the foibles of MN. There are plenty of things about the place that are annoying. But as long as people who hate the idea of sex-based rights in response to sex-based oppression keep coming here to shout at us for being evil harpies, it's doing something right. You guys think MN is scary and unfriendly? Try being JKR on Twitter.

Good post @DrSbaitso (as usual.)

@seekinglondonlife

On any thread about universities using contextual data, everyone who has been to Oxbridge grew up homeless, with no parents, wandering around the edge of a sink estate and no shoes. They weren't able to read or write, but none of this had any bearing on their application. Everyone goes to great lengths to show they had zero privilege whatsoever, and they still got in easily.

Yes!

Agree with others about children either being gifted or have a SEN.
Drinking alcohol and wearing make up is sneered at.
Over priced boxy clothes from Toast are fashionable.
Everyone seems to have an over sensitive nose. A whiff of perfume from somebody else will set off a migraine lasting days.
Dogs must be rescue dogs.
However, I really enjoy using mumsnet. Some of the posts make me smile.

@EatYourVegetables

Extremely complex parking disputes requiring diagrams

Bleaching the skirt boards

Everyone lives “very rurally” and every household absolutely needs a 4 wheel drive per person

Blatant misuse of the word “grim”

Anyone requiring a diagram in a dispute (parking or no parking) requires some sort of specialist's help, the medical profession springs to mind. In itself, a pretty grim prospect. Even if you're lucky enough to live "very rurally" (love this one in particular). Living NOT so "very rurally" meself (fucking SE London) I wonder how "rurally" one does need to exist to live "VERY rurally". Must be exhausting, by the sound of it.

@HelloFrostyMorning

Good post *@DrSbaitso* (as usual.)

Thank you.

@OneTC

People being attacked by dogs and run over by cyclists every time they leave their house

This is honestly my village...there is a turf war between dog walkers and cyclists that would make West Side Story hang its head in shame.

This is honestly my village...there is a turf war between dog walkers and cyclists that would make West Side Story hang its head in shame.

The Jets and the Barks?

(I'll get my coat.)

People being attacked by dogs and run over by cyclists every time they leave their house

don't forget the virus-shedding joggers around every corner, breathing all over everyone they collide with

@DrSbaitso

This is honestly my village...there is a turf war between dog walkers and cyclists that would make West Side Story hang its head in shame.

The Jets and the Barks?

(I'll get my coat.)

take a bow!

The inability of people to consider that others might not have the same opinion as them and instead try to persuade them they're wrong.
People derailing entire conversations to insert their own agenda

@traintraveller

The inability of people to consider that others might not have the same opinion as them and instead try to persuade them they're wrong. People derailing entire conversations to insert their own agenda

If that's mostly only a Mumsnet thing for you, I'd love to know where else you hang out, both on and offline.

@lordloveadog

I'm just here to stick up for the greyhounds. They really are lovely dogs and ideal for busy families. Off to bed to cuddle mine now. He's been warming up the foot end for me, just as I like.

Also it's not at all surprising that an internet forum would have a high proportion of people who have anxiety issues and prefer to discuss problems anonymously and in writing. Ditto a parenting forum with a lot of people with in-law issues to vent.

I think you've just illustrated my point! Greyhound are lovely dogs... If you want a greyhound! But people who have specified they want a tiny dog/fluffy dog/cat aren't in the market for a greyhound. But it seems to be the only acceptable MN dog.

If you have an abusive husband, leave the kids with him for a day and go to a spa to relax, to teach him a lesson.

People think perfectly normal behaviour and common irritations only happen on Mumsnrt

I wonder how "rurally" one does need to exist to live "VERY rurally". Must be exhausting, by the sound of it.
I live rurally now, a farm across the road, houses either side of me, a few minutes to the nearest shop and big road. I once lived very rurally, no house anywhere nearby, fields all around and at night there was just a wall of black outside. It was the most exhausting time ever, especially trying to reconcile the great times we had with the kids playing there with the horrible loneliness and worry

@HelloFrostyMorning I couldn't have put it better myself

As soon as anyone asks about love making improvements, it's omg, shock, how dare they ask

Only doing your own washing and leaving teenage children and husband's to do their own.

Everyone and their baby 'nearly died' during childbirth.

Anyone contemplating a homebirth is 'brave'.

So many pregnancies where the woman has been told she's infertile so is shocked to have concieved.

@SleepOhHowIMissYou

Only doing your own washing and leaving teenage children and husband's to do their own.

In our house, everyone does their own washing. It honestly isn't just on MumsNet!

6 month old babies having "full on adult conversations"

Yes @HyphenCobra, as someone whose baby nearly did die and I ended up in ICU it really isn't common, but everyone on MN required a 'crash section' and 'we are both lucky to be alive'.