To stop using Mumsnet for a while because of the constant negative comments about men?

[listsandbudgets]

I've just posted a thread about my missing (now turned up) friend. So many posters assuming that her DP was violent, controlling etc. etc.

Someone else posted about their DP getting a letter from child maintenance about a child he'd never met - again people slagging him of for "sowing his oats" implying he'd been violent and god knows what.

That's just 2 examples. There are some horrible men out there of course there are but it makes me so sad to see this constant underlying misandry here on mumsnet. Men our are sons, brothers, partners and fathers and the very vast majority of them are decent people - flawed perhaps, made some mistakes perhaps but that does not make them violent controlling etc. etc. it makes them human.

Please stop it mumsnet. Certainly attribute blame where it's genuinely due but stop making these awful assumptions it's unhelpful and nasty.

Signing off will be back in a few weeks to see whether or not things have improved - doubt it sadly

I find myself in agreement on every part of your post, apart from the second part of the following,
"Frankly, I don't give a shit about "misandry" in one of the precious few places where women can speak freely without being talked over by men.
It used to be but, these days, I can guarantee near enough every thread where a woman's post turns out to be about a man will have at least one of the brethren show up before the end of the first page and remind the woman poster she is obviously the one in the wrong, inform her how she's wrong, twist what she said, make shit up, and say they sorry they feel for the poor poor DH/DP/etc before taking the thread over with multiple increasingly nasty posts.

The knots they'll tie themselves into to blame the woman is fucking incredible to behold and you can, figuratively, smell the dick on them.

I understand why you put misandry in quotes though.
The words false equivalence come to mind when I think about it.