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What are your unpopular opinions that most mumsnetters don’t agree with?

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Rosebush1245 · 21/05/2025 20:01

Curious to know what opinions you see constantly on mumsnet that you think “Am I the only person that disagrees with that!?”

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Insanityisnotastrategy · 22/05/2025 21:29

FlakyCritic · 22/05/2025 21:27

A tape worm and parasite are alive too, it doesn't make them human. If a woman doesn't want those in her body, she can remove them from her person. Same with a blastocyst or embryo that has no skeleton, no brainstem, no nerve receptors or sentience.

My unpopular opinion is that this kind of stuff makes you sound sociopathic.

FlakyCritic · 22/05/2025 21:30

cherrymaoam · 22/05/2025 19:47

I think it’s fine to do your makeup and paint your nails on the train.

Not paint your nails. Firstly, the fumes can upset some people's asthma/breathing. Secondly the bottle could fall out of your hands and spill then you should be up for a cleaning bill. Painting your nails on the train is not remotely practical.

FlakyCritic · 22/05/2025 21:32

LuvACustardCream · 22/05/2025 19:55

I despise the whole Mumsnet anti trans posts. Hate filled bigots all of them.

I despise posts where they call womens rights 'anti trans'. It is not 'hateful' to advocate for rape survivors like me and DV victims to have female only safe single sex spaces. It is hateful and bigoted to say a male should be able to expose his penis to women and girls in the changerooms. Hateful, bigoted, and sick.

Neetra30 · 22/05/2025 21:32

100% agreed.
If women know that by bringing in an unplanned baby into the world would cause devastating consequences for themselves, their families and unborn babies, abortion is the right thing to do.
Our society cannot save every child who is at risk of abuse or being abused. This is the truth

FlakyCritic · 22/05/2025 21:34

Insanityisnotastrategy · 22/05/2025 21:29

My unpopular opinion is that this kind of stuff makes you sound sociopathic.

Plain old-fashioned scientific clinical terms, and womens rights is 'sociopathic'??

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 22/05/2025 21:34

FlakyCritic · 22/05/2025 21:32

I despise posts where they call womens rights 'anti trans'. It is not 'hateful' to advocate for rape survivors like me and DV victims to have female only safe single sex spaces. It is hateful and bigoted to say a male should be able to expose his penis to women and girls in the changerooms. Hateful, bigoted, and sick.

👏 👏

RobertaFirmino · 22/05/2025 21:36

Calmdownpeople · 22/05/2025 18:59

Yeah no for me that is way too blasé about abortion. I support a woman’s right to choose but it shouldn’t be seen as everyday contraception.

The post I was replying to was talking about conceiving when using contraception. Specsavers?

As for 'blase', abortion shouldn't be viewed as a dirty little secret. Women have them, it's a fact of life.

Neetra30 · 22/05/2025 21:36

FlakyCritic · 22/05/2025 21:27

A tape worm and parasite are alive too, it doesn't make them human. If a woman doesn't want those in her body, she can remove them from her person. Same with a blastocyst or embryo that has no skeleton, no brainstem, no nerve receptors or sentience.

100% agreed with this

ThatCyanCat · 22/05/2025 21:36

LuvACustardCream · 22/05/2025 19:55

I despise the whole Mumsnet anti trans posts. Hate filled bigots all of them.

I don't care. It's not a human right to get your knob out around women and little girls no matter how much you skweem and skweem until you're sick. Use the men's or a mixed sex facility and leave women and kids alone.

RobertaFirmino · 22/05/2025 21:37

Insanityisnotastrategy · 22/05/2025 21:29

My unpopular opinion is that this kind of stuff makes you sound sociopathic.

Sociopathic? Don't be so ridiculous, it is science.

TheAmusedQuail · 22/05/2025 21:39

ThatCyanCat · 22/05/2025 21:36

I don't care. It's not a human right to get your knob out around women and little girls no matter how much you skweem and skweem until you're sick. Use the men's or a mixed sex facility and leave women and kids alone.

Are you an adult? That response is unhinged.

FlakyCritic · 22/05/2025 21:45

TheAmusedQuail · 22/05/2025 21:39

Are you an adult? That response is unhinged.

Supporting men exposing their knob to women and girls is what is truly unhinged. Are you an adult?

Insanityisnotastrategy · 22/05/2025 21:45

FlakyCritic · 22/05/2025 21:34

Plain old-fashioned scientific clinical terms, and womens rights is 'sociopathic'??

Comparing a foetus to a tape worm. Clearly.

FlakyCritic · 22/05/2025 21:48

Insanityisnotastrategy · 22/05/2025 21:45

Comparing a foetus to a tape worm. Clearly.

The point is they are both alive. The anti-choice poster suggested because a blastocyst or embryo is alive, then it matters more than the actual born human woman. Using something being 'alive' as an excuse to be anti-choice is ridiculous. A woman has the right to remove an embryo, or a tumour or a tape worm from her body. Arguing against that, is sociopathic and inhuman.

ThatCyanCat · 22/05/2025 21:49

TheAmusedQuail · 22/05/2025 21:39

Are you an adult? That response is unhinged.

Oh, and this one is so intelligent and reasoned, I absolutely see the light now.

Do you guys have anything other than "you are insane"? It doesn't hold much weight coming from people who think women can have dicks.

RobertaFirmino · 22/05/2025 21:49

Oh for crying out loud, do you need Specsavers too? An embryo is mentioned, not a foetus.

SwingTheMonkey · 22/05/2025 21:49

Insanityisnotastrategy · 22/05/2025 21:45

Comparing a foetus to a tape worm. Clearly.

Both are parasites 🤷🏻‍♀️

RenoDakota · 22/05/2025 21:51

Picklepower · 22/05/2025 09:59

What the heck is glinner?

Graham Linehan, the darling of the transphobes on the FWR board.

Yellowstickerstalker · 22/05/2025 21:52
  1. An obsession with joint accounts. All this talk about feminism when it suits but it’s bonkers for women not to have access to their own cash aa well. Absolutely would never leave myself so vulnerable.
  2. the idea that rescue dogs are all damaged. They’re not. 50 years of owning rescue dogs, across 4 different families within my extended family and not one incident or bite.
  3. the cognitive dissonance (see above) that buying a puppy does not lead to supply and demand which results in puppy farms, animal cruelty and shelters bursting at the seams. Buy a puppy by all means but at least acknowledge you’re adding to this problem.
FlakyCritic · 22/05/2025 21:55

RenoDakota · 22/05/2025 21:51

Graham Linehan, the darling of the transphobes on the FWR board.

A chivalrous man who defends womens rights, much to the chagrin of the femphobes and misogynist bigots with a pathological hatred of the female sex class.

ToWhitToWhoo · 22/05/2025 21:55

People have a right to deal with special occasions and their traditions in a different way from you, without being sneered at.

E.g.

(1) Wishing to celebrate your birthday is not arrogant, selfish or narcissistic. Wishing to ignore your birthday is not miserable or joyless.

(2) Encouraging your child to believe in Santa Claus is not an evil deception which will turn them into a liar or make them feel massively betrayed when they find out. Not encouraging them to believe in Santa Claus is not miserable, selfish or depriving them of 'the magic of childhood'..

Calmdownpeople · 22/05/2025 22:01

RobertaFirmino · 22/05/2025 21:36

The post I was replying to was talking about conceiving when using contraception. Specsavers?

As for 'blase', abortion shouldn't be viewed as a dirty little secret. Women have them, it's a fact of life.

Wow rude. Just rude.

i see just fine and can read your insulting post just fine too.

ToWhitToWhoo · 22/05/2025 22:02

Resilience is not fostered by harshness or by forcing children to do things that they hate or are afraid of and refusing them any choice.

There are certainly things that we must all do, even if we hate them or are afraid of them; but I think that children are more likely to accept the necessity if they haven't been forced to do them just for the sake of 'not pandering to them'.

Higyt56899 · 22/05/2025 22:03

Imallergictowheat · 22/05/2025 20:30

I've been festering on this for a while and it's irritated me so much that I've had to reply.
So why do I get, hot flushes, poor sleep, brain fog, anxiety, food intolerances, overwhelming rage, dry eyes and crawling itchy skin? Nothing what so ever to do with diet and exercise.
In fact my overwhelming rage is even more overwhelming since I read that post.

Yeh, totally true.

PickANumber · 22/05/2025 22:03

Never ever leave or stop looking at you child, not even for a second. If you stop watching them a bird will fly eat and take them away.

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