To dislike it when men post on mumsnet?

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I find it annoying. Why can’t they use their own men’s websites? Of which there are many!

*Note I put a thread up like this last night. Then went to bed. When I woke up this morning, it had been deleted by MN. Not sure what went on there..

I find it extraordinary how you can get "annoyed" by some random simply because of his sex/gender.

I find some people annoying, it's completely irrelevant if they are male or female. I have no way of knowing what they are in real life anyway.

Says you

Don’t you think?

Exactly

Thing is, you've no idea of the sex of anyone posting. It's an anonymous forum.

There are male moderators and male writers employed on mumsnet, it started as one thing and has expanded thats all.

I suppose changing the name to parentsnet might help though not so catchy

I don't get my knickers in a twist about it.
We're all invited to the party.

I don't mind men posting here. I don't even necessarily mind "for a male perspective"...sometimes we might even be interested. I just can't stand the MRA/incel types who are here only to whinge, directly or indirectly, about not getting laid or imaginary oppression of men by women and to take literally any scenario to whine "WHAT IF THE SEXES WERE REVERSED?!?!!11" They're not, Barry, stop making up stuff to feed your victim fantasy.

The fact there are so few female oriented places that they all come here doesn't say anything to them. The fact that a female oriented place will centre females is an oppressive heresy to them doesn't say anything to them.

I know, you've missed the point... I was being ironic (see mischievous grin for clue) due to the way the pp I as replying to was wishing for the very thing many, who share their view of objecting to men being here, were objecting to.

You can look at my posts at 8:05 and 8:12 if you want to see the fuller thought process.

😂😂 We’re not, Barry. Stop making stuff up to feed your fantasy.

Quite.

You speak for yourself.

Maybe mumsnet isn't for you if you can't cope

I wonder why so many women on here hate men.
A lot of women on this site lump them all together.

They had a crap dad, so all men are shit.

They were cheated on, so all men cheat.

They picked a useless husband, so all husbands must be useless.

Women can be rubbish mums, can and do cheat and br pretty rubbish wives. It doesn't mean that all women are the same and not all men are the same.

I value people's input and opinions on here, whether male or female.

Can’t cope? No that is you making stuff up

I did once consider starting a thread where all the Barrys could go to dump literally anything they've read on here to do the "WHAT IF THE SEXES WERE REVERSED" thing. "My husband does nothing at home or with the kids even though we both work full time and I'm about to break WHAT IF THE SEXES WERE REVERSED", "My husband read my diary and threatened to show it to my family WHAT IF THE SEXES WERE REVERSED", "My boyfriend refuses to set the wedding date WHAT IF THE SEXES WERE REVERSED", "My husband is refusing to step up as I recover from labour from our fourth child WHAT IF THE SEXES WERE REVERSED", "I've got terrible endometriosis and bad flooding WHAT IF THE SEXES WERE REVERSED", you get the idea. Then they could congregate there to complain about imaginary scenarios and we could get on with the real ones.

But I suspect it wouldn't stay up long. Pity.

I think it’s pretty well evidenced at this point that misogyny is rife in society. Have you seen stats around violent pornography, sexual exploitation, violence against women, the rise in popularity of MRAs, the incel movement etc? Bit short sighted to dismiss that as “your opinion” and “NAMALT”.

I wonder why so many women on here hate men.

because it's easier to blame "menz" than admitting you can take some responsibility for your own life

Also some people get worked up on their keyboard and express all the venom they don't dare showing in real life. There's a lot of jealousy and bitterness on this site. There's also a lot of interesting posters.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm just as cynical and embittered in real life. It makes me happy.

It takes a certain sort of man to

1. want to post on a site called mumsnet
2. feel confident enough to post
3. to think their opinions and experience can contribute anything. this sort of man is generally one I wouldn’t engage with in real life.

but personally I prefer it when they start their posts ‘man here’ so I can stop reading and move straight onto the next comment.

Men have every right to be on here but it is a shame that 90% of their posts are complaining about a lack of sex with their wife.

Absolutely! This place is fascinating and horrifying in equal measure.

If people think misogyny is rife then you only have to look at threads like this and you see that misandry is equally rife. That being said, there are more people saying that the OP is being unreasonable, than not.

It would be courteous of men to clearly identify themselves as men when naming themselves, eg “confusedDad76”.

It would be great if you could stipulate on your post whether you were looking for responses from women only. Mumsnet could check IDs when you register an account, it could be possible to register sex.

Sigh.

As it happens, I’ve got the best dad (and mum, I feel very lucky), I couldn’t love him any more. I’ve got a great husband, and children. A job I love (which is 80% male).

Yet because I’d like some space for women without men’s input, I’m apparently ‘a man hater’. Quite bizarre logic there. Well no logic as it happens. Still here we are. What can one do.

Ps. To the poster who said misandry is as rife as misogyny…

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

No words

But why would their contributions be deemed irrelevant just because they are male? There are plenty of topics, especially on the parenting board, where the posters sex is totally irrelevant