To think the Mumsnet coronation logo is quite mean?

[AdaBrady]

Disclaimer: I’m not British and have no skin in the monarchy game, but I do think the ears are a bit much.

You want MN management to function at the intellectual level of Family Fortunes??
Some of us had higher expectations

I'm amazed at so many threads and posts objecting to this very mild bit of fun. Flappy ears have been part of Charles cartoons forever. Can't help thinking that the objections are part of the hair-trigger oversensitivity we all seem to be developing to ANY kind of communication that gives us an opportunity to become offended.

But Charles doesn’t behave well - so it’s fair game

I think it's really bad taste.

No, I was using to point out to the few random posters who think that people are only seeing offence because they themselves have issues with people with prominent ears. It’s a ludicrous suggestion. Everyone knows it’s the physical characteristic Charles is known for and has been teased for all his life.

Shit joke👍

Thanks for clarifying

Not fair game to mock him for something unrelated.

Like people who are annoyed with some stranger always describe them as being a 'fat cow'. Even other MN responding to a reported interaction on a thread will describe the other person as a fat cow, becasue they didn't behave well. It's reinforcing the association in so many people's minds that physical attributes are a reflection of personality and what the person is really like.

If you don't think he behaves well, then object to what he's done or said, rather than what he looks like.

I do also think the mocking of him for things said in private conversations that were not expected to be broadcast is also unfair.

I don't think he cares about what any of us think, but it's more the way that other people end up learning that it's acceptable to mock people for things that is such a problem.

I’m a republican
And I agree the logo is mean-spirited.
I haven’t seen another logo like it anywhere, on any other platform.

I think some posters are spectacularly missing the point here. MN is a site where there are many users who have been bullied/laughed at/humiliated by comments made about their physical appearance. To have a site that apparently now condones that behaviour by having a logo that (in their opinion), is funny, gives a clear signal to others that it's ok to mock those people on here. THAT is what's wrong with it, it's not people needing to "take a joke" or "not get so uptight", it's the fact that on here we can now be pointed to and laughed at with MN's blessing. How anybody can think that's ok is beyond me, but I guess those that do will be the ones doing the pointing and laughing.

God that's awful! Depressing, nasty and body shaming. Get it off Mumsnet FFS.

Daft mare!

I think it's totally pathetic, mean and idiotic and I'm not even a charles fan but mocking someone's ears is so stupid

It's not a good look for the site. I think it's annoyed a lot of users.

Personally, I think it's a bit tacky.

Wouldn't have mattered if he did or not, he was born to it and didn't choose it. It isn't a political statement. It's just spiteful body shaming.

Very spiteful and not funny at all.

Not mad on the way he’s behaved over the years. But I was a bit surprised by this when I saw it. There may be parents of children struggling with prominent ears or other body image issues, or site users themselves.

I get that his ears are often portrayed as comical but it is known that he was bullied in school because of them (amongst other things, obvs). Not a dealbreaker for me, but not quite in the spirit of the site either.

Exactly.

Let’s have a long-awaited definition of “not in the spirit” from MNHQ and a list of people in the public eye who are fair game and those who aren’t, with an explanation of why there’s a difference. Can’t wait.

That's really sad, hope your son is ok.

@mnhq Granted Charles is in a protected bubble but most kids are not and bullying is still bullying.

No they’re not now. He’s either ‘grown into them’ or had surgery. They were when he was younger.

Disgusting, mean and unprofessional.

Let's hope all these threads about it make it to the newspapers, it might make MN buck their ideas up.

Same. I'm actually very anti-monarchy, but I spotted the logo as soon as I logged on and was quite shocked. It's a bit much! I don't like Charles, but mocking him for having big ears? Aren't we grown-ups, here?

If you compare very recent pictures to ones from when he got married the first time or that period, his ears look completely different.

Disappointing.

It's getting increasingly easy to see on MN who were the bullies, or the parents of them, isn't it?