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To not really like it when men post on here?

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Username91 · 15/08/2022 21:17

Just that really. After reading not one but two bullshit threads started by men in the last few days I’m just a bit sick of them posting on here. I love mumsnet. I’ve read interesting threads, hilarious ones, heartbreaking and sometimes infuriating ones and I just feel like saying ‘oh piss off’ every time a bloke sticks their neb in. It’s MUMSnet ffs. I know I am being unreasonable really and am a massive hypocrite as I’m not (yet) a mum myself haha and don’t actually contribute anything of value to this site myself but still….they get on my tits.

OP posts:
HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 22/08/2022 15:00

PhotoDad · 22/08/2022 14:57

As a man, reading this thread with horror, I feel I ought to write in flowery language and explain my credentials first! (I'm here because my DW suggested I could answer some very specific questions to help a poster ages ago, and I stay for the interesting range of views.)

But to get back to the point, I’m kind of glad men are in the thread and will see this, because I can guarantee you the women on the thread have experienced it plenty of times. IRL as well as online. As per the pub comparison.

HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 22/08/2022 15:01

PhotoDad · 22/08/2022 14:59

Verily, I am dumbstruck by your grandiloquence!

😂

Yeah, no. Really: don’t.

PhotoDad · 22/08/2022 15:02

HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 22/08/2022 15:00

But to get back to the point, I’m kind of glad men are in the thread and will see this, because I can guarantee you the women on the thread have experienced it plenty of times. IRL as well as online. As per the pub comparison.

I don't doubt it for a moment. I have observed that with horror too. (As an aside, that's a Miss Marple reference in your username, right?)

Paul85 · 22/08/2022 15:03

ReneBumsWombats · 22/08/2022 14:58

Hey, you said it, not me.

Ok, women confronting your horrible attitude to death threats are just snide. Right. And you consider your endless engagement to be "sticking up for yourself" because what's right is right. OK.

But you expect us to believe that if someone were to threaten right now to find you, castrate you, slit your throat and violate your body, you wouldn't take it very seriously? You'd just shrug it off? It would be less of an issue than what's happening now?

Really?

No it wouldnt bother me much .If the threat came from someone i knew then maybe i would take it seriously.We Scousers are made of tough stuff 😂we dont scare easily.I get why some people would be alarmedthough and my advice would be call the bizzies

HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 22/08/2022 15:03

It is a Miss Marple themed NN yes.

jewishmum · 22/08/2022 15:04

This post might prompt a comment but from experience now that another man has arrived, the Paul one will back down.

PhotoDad · 22/08/2022 15:07

jewishmum · 22/08/2022 15:04

This post might prompt a comment but from experience now that another man has arrived, the Paul one will back down.

Other men upthread have commented without much effect. I'm not sure what Paul wants from this. Having said multiple times that he's going to leave the thread alone, what is his exit strategy?

Paul85 · 22/08/2022 15:07

jewishmum · 22/08/2022 15:04

This post might prompt a comment but from experience now that another man has arrived, the Paul one will back down.

Really?Explain

HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 22/08/2022 15:07

A shoot out?

Paul85 · 22/08/2022 15:10

PhotoDad · 22/08/2022 15:07

Other men upthread have commented without much effect. I'm not sure what Paul wants from this. Having said multiple times that he's going to leave the thread alone, what is his exit strategy?

When i get an apology 😂

Sparklingbrook · 22/08/2022 15:11

my advice would be call the bizzies

I'm getting Terry Sullivan in Brookside vibes now. Calm down, calm down etc. Grin

HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 22/08/2022 15:11

I'm here because my DW suggested I could answer some very specific questions to help a poster ages ago, and I stay for the interesting range of views.

Anyway @PhotoDad , I’m sure your DW was quite right but just out of curiosity what was your area of expertise? You’ve earth yourself a get out of jail free card now anyway.

PhotoDad · 22/08/2022 15:12

Paul85 · 22/08/2022 15:10

When i get an apology 😂

"I'm sorry if you thought you were contributing to the conversation."

HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 22/08/2022 15:12

Earned^

Paul85 · 22/08/2022 15:12

Sparklingbrook · 22/08/2022 15:11

my advice would be call the bizzies

I'm getting Terry Sullivan in Brookside vibes now. Calm down, calm down etc. Grin

😂god i miss Brooky

Sparklingbrook · 22/08/2022 15:13

god i miss Brooky

I bet you do.

Paul85 · 22/08/2022 15:13

PhotoDad · 22/08/2022 15:12

"I'm sorry if you thought you were contributing to the conversation."

Funny lad

PhotoDad · 22/08/2022 15:15

HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 22/08/2022 15:11

I'm here because my DW suggested I could answer some very specific questions to help a poster ages ago, and I stay for the interesting range of views.

Anyway @PhotoDad , I’m sure your DW was quite right but just out of curiosity what was your area of expertise? You’ve earth yourself a get out of jail free card now anyway.

Photography, hence the name! I mostly lurk, bur post when I see specific things I can answer (when asked, not mansplaining I hope) or more recently in going-to-uni threads, as my DD will be very soon.

Paul85 · 22/08/2022 15:16

Sparklingbrook · 22/08/2022 15:13

god i miss Brooky

I bet you do.

I'll never forget when they killed the dad and put him under the patio.Wonder how many mumsnet mothers have buried their husbands 😅

HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd · 22/08/2022 15:16

PhotoDad · 22/08/2022 15:15

Photography, hence the name! I mostly lurk, bur post when I see specific things I can answer (when asked, not mansplaining I hope) or more recently in going-to-uni threads, as my DD will be very soon.

Ask a silly question…

Good luck with that. The prep is frenetic but the driving off without them bit is odd. Like you’ve mislaid something.

PhotoDad · 22/08/2022 15:18

Thank you, @HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd !

Sparklingbrook · 22/08/2022 15:19

Paul85 · 22/08/2022 15:16

I'll never forget when they killed the dad and put him under the patio.Wonder how many mumsnet mothers have buried their husbands 😅

'the dad' that was buried under the patio regularly beat his wife up and sexually abused their daughter IIRC.

picklemewalnuts · 22/08/2022 15:20

Oh yes, that's awful.

Mind you, Covid brought my baby back again, so it's not a permanent amputation! He's finally going again now, 4 years after we thought he'd gone! Assuming he can get a flat to rent, in an over heated housing market, that is.

lightand · 22/08/2022 15:20

I dont have a problem.
It is a free country.

But having said that, I am not really on here often enough to have seen a potential problem anyway.

entropynow · 22/08/2022 15:22

Paul85 · 22/08/2022 14:45

😴

Typically male response to losing an argument.🙄

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