Am I being unreasonable to thinks MN has become full of blokes lately?

[hopelessmum1]

I have been absent for a while and I am suddenly seeing lots of blokes usernames. Could yous not go and create a Dadsnet or summat so women can talk freely and openly without being monitored by men? @mumsnet

What the…?

No thanks. We women provide plenty of diversity - and inclusion of each other. We’re always bloody expected to #bekind to entitled men, and give up our spaces to include them. They never do the same for us.

They can go and find their spaces - there are literally zillions out there.

Isn't it good for men to see things from a woman's point of view

All this talk of men being on MN.

Stop fretting, it’ll never happen.

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Alright darlin' Babycham is it? Babycham, on a night off from the babies? Ha ha ha. You look tired love.

There do seem to be a few more looking for a woman's POV. I tend to ignore those as, I can't be arsed basically.

But they’re only ever here to tell us We’re Wrong, so …. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think so I've learnt a lot from MN.

It definitely feels coordinated to me. It started about six months ago. That and the constant trolling.

I wished they duck off somewhere else.

They truly can't stand women having one place without them

I have noticed that too. Lots of attention to detail. And very blameless.

I started reading mumsnet years ago when it first started, as it was a good source of useful information for practical stuff about running a home. I lived on my own and didn't know shit, so finding out what the best stuff was, or how to do something was invaluable. Of course, that was back when the Internet was good 😜

As it has evolved, I have to say that it has been useful to see another perspective on various topics.

And AIBU is just addictive.

I can't say that it bothers me whether men use MN or not.
It's a free country.

Their comments are always prefaced with “I’m a dad” or “I’m a husband and …” as though it makes their opinion so much more worthwhile 😂

They seem most interested in the sex and dating threads

I joined MN when my DW suggested that I could answer some specific questions that were a bit hard to google (about photography). I've stayed because of the conversations and the company. But of course I wouldn't object or complain if MNers thought it was right for this to become a woman-only space.

When I'm on the Internet I'd like to be sharing a space with other women predominantly. Is this unreasonable and if so, why?

Mumsnet is a public website, you don't need an account to read it so you are "sharing a space" with the entire world.

Saying you only want women on here is as pointless as those posters that say they don't give permission for a newspaper to quote their post.

If you only want to interact with women, you need to find a members only site that can confirm the user is a woman at point of registration.

I am very happy for men/ dads to use mumsnet.

But also, I don't get to make that decision and neither do any of us 😅Mumsnet is for whoever wants to use it and finds value here, as long as they don't violate the posting guidelines.

And honestly, I don't think there is any risk that it is going to become overwhelmingly flooded with men anytime soon.

So how does MN stop this? It's easy to moan but no one is offering a solution on how to make a website exclusive to women?

Whenever I post about child arrangements of my toddler, I get men posting very rude, horrible insensitive posts in response - they all seem to come from Fathers4Justice and are looking at someone to direct their anger! Those are the men that piss me off on Mumsnet!

Mumsnet existence is diversity and inclusion of the internet itself. We don’t need it within mumsnet to include men.

I don’t actually have a dangler!

So how does MN stop this? It's easy to moan but no one is offering a solution on how to make a website exclusive to women?

For a start they'd have to make it only viewable to members, killing their revenue stream.
That's the easy bit, imagine trying to create an on-line verification process proving a potential member is a women? (& what do you mean by 'women'?)

I do think there's a swathe of chaps rolling up with 'what about the poor dad' wails when a mum is trying to establish sensible patterns around children.

They are so clearly unreasonable I find them easy to ignore.

There are also one or two women who are incredibly prickly about MiLs, ageism and children's behaviour- they should be seen and not heard- which I find harder to deal with than the men. They have a sealion air to them.

Still all in all as long as we ignore the toddler waving their bum in the air when mummy's on the phone, it will be fine.

I googled something about my kid years ago the answer being on mumsnet. I was on my own evenings with three kids with wife at work I just stuck with it along with a petrol heads forum.I find it very entertaining and useful for answers on all sorts of subjects .

What is a masculine posting style ?

And isnt it an overreaction to complain when someone starts "I'm the dad.." why isn't it just being open and honest ?

Personally I’m with @ivycastle. And I maybe don’t spend enough time on here or just scroll past because I don’t tend to see the posters some people have a problem with. The posts from men that I’ve seen have all been fine.