I'm a Dad on this site.

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Accidentally created an account via a Google account pop-up.

Use this site to look up odds & ends.

Am I welcome as a dad or would this be inappropriate?

I remember the day my son was born, as they cut him out of me my first happy thought was ‘oh yay, now I have earnt the privilege of actually being able to post on Mumsnet’

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So stupid that a tiny minority are bothered by non parents being here🙄I mean what harm is it doing you? I work in childcare and guess what? There's even a childcare section on mumsnet, so I guess I shouldn't post on there because I'm not a mother?

Really @Lalosalamanca ? I don't have children but I stumbled into the site looking for kitchen advice then found loads of practical help on other renovations. Have learned loads from the Feminism boards and really enjoy many of the others. I joined live commentary groups for some TV, laughed at the madness of some debates and felt real sadness for people going through difficult times. It's a great site for everyone.

Because "parentsnet" is a shit name basically. It has been explained many times in the 20+ years Mumsnet has been around.

do you really not know the origins? It's been for parents right from the start. Hence the tag line.

Fellow bloke and all that, welcome matey!

before I had children It would never have occurred to me to join Mumsnet

Same. Even though Mumsnet has LOADS of different topics. I never thought to join because I wasn’t a mum, didn’t really make sense to me. I only joined last year when my DD was about a couple months old.

I don’t think only parents should be on here (it’s the Internet anyway, no one can control who does what) but I completely understand that poster’s comment

I don’t have a problem with men on here, it’s a public forum.

That said, I personally come on here to speak to women and get their opinion and as a break from men, so if I had a vote I’d probably say keep them out. Just being honest.

Mumsnet was conceived in early 2000 when Justine Roberts embarked on a disastrous family holiday. Her idea was to create a website where parents could swap advice about not just holidays but all the other stuff parents talk about

from the "about us" section.

People without kids are completely welcome here. I’m a parent, but I can’t remember the last time I posted on a parenting-related thread, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m going to be blunt. It’s my observation that the men who come on here are Of A Type. They can’t help telling us us they’re men (exhibit A: this thread). They like to explain things. They know they’re right. They even think they know women better than we do.

I love that this is predominantly a women’s site.

I would have thought most parents would be insulted if it was suggested they were too narrow-minded to talk about anything except conception, pregnancy and parenting. Parents should be able to talk about all the things which have nothing to do with parenting, that non-parents also want to talk about.

Of course men are welcome. No need to mention it unless it's relevant to what you have to say.

Ouch...I'll leave quietly then ....😆

Hello and welcome fellow dad. There's a piece of advice I was given when I first posted on this site which goes "avoid AIBU, FWR and the litter tray. They're all batshit in AIBU, FWR will tear you to shreds and the litter tray lot are something else."

Needless to say I swerved that piece of advice and I'm glad I did. FWR, the feminism section, is chock full of interesting and highly intelligent women. The litter tray lot are lovely, of course, but they're right about AIBU, they are batshit.

Often it comes up on google when you’re searching for something, or there’s a controversial thread from here in the news. Justine interviewed boris Johnson recently. Mumsnet is widely known as a discussion forum so it’s not exactly a secret club you find out about from your midwife.

The thing is, because it's predominantly a women's site, it stands to reason the (for me anyway) that the majority of trolls are also women.

Trolls love to wind people up and seek attention, so what better way to do it than to start a thread or reply to a post with "Man here"?

I'm convinced the amount of 'men here' posts that descend into bun fights aren't by men at all.

Plus faux naive posters ask “why are people without children here?” at least once a week.

Bit wanky to announce your arrival. Even wankier to ask for a vote on whether you stay. Are you always this needy? Do you enjoy having women run around validating your ego? FGS post or don't, but try to refrain from taking up more space than other posters, talking over us etc. Or we might just eat you

All men on MN….

It’s my observation that the men who come on here are Of A Type. They can’t help telling us us they’re men

well, not really. Your observation is that some men do that. There are plenty others you just assume are women because they didn't say. You have no way of knowing what sex a poster is, you just make assumptions.

How do you know that the "women" you're talking to are women? Is it a special power?

It's one of the few safe spaces for GCs on the web

There are at least two men that I know of on this thread alone that you don't know are men. G'wan which ones are they?

It's also a bit hypocritical to accuse men of behaving in the exact way you're behaving.

What are GC's ? @Alcibiade sorry fairly new to mumsnet and unsure of all the abbreviations!

Sorry should specified. I meant Mumsnet is one of the few places people can express gender critical views without being flamed.

Thank you