men on mumsnet

[LittleMi55Nobody]

ladies..just wondering..are you fed up of men posting on mumsnet..why don't they start their own "dadsnet/mansnet" group..im getting fed up of obvious "male" comments undermining our woman issues....quite honestly id like them to fuck off cos im not interested in their opinons on womanship

I’m fed up of a certain type of man on mumsnet. The type that hangs around the sex board and comments on any relationship post involving sex. I’m also sick of the men that post pretending to be women. And the men that are pompous pricks.

No issue with normal, decent men on here, but I’m not sure how many of them there are.

Thanks for that irrelevant comment, attempting to pretend not to understand that women everywhere have specific observable real and factual issues directly related to their sex.

Men cannot ever understand what women experience by being born female, regardless of any race, culture, ethnicity, religion or country.

Again, women of ALL races, ethnicities, countries, cultures and religions are welcome in women's spaces.

There are two sexes. In every single race, culture, religion and country women have things in common with other women which they can absolutely never have in common with men and which men can never, ever understand.

But you already know this.

You attempted incorrectly to conflate sex with "any other demographic". I corrected you. Have the good grace to stop babbling nonsense.

Right. Decent men don't hang around on women's boards lecturing, scolding and being gross to and about women. That seems to be the main sort we get here.

Can't stand it tbh. 'man here....: oh fuck off.

Men who start threads are always saints who do 100% of the parenting and chores and their wives are always selfish. Yawn.

Worse are women who say 'I've just showed DH this thread and he thinks.....'

Couldn't give a fuck mate.

They’re ‘saints’ at the start of their threads, but the mask usually slips when they realise women see right through them.

Ooft, who pissed in your Weetabix? 🤣🤣

I'm not conflating anything, that wasn't even my comment you responded to, I'm simply saying a lot of the content of Mumsnet is more relevant dads than it will be to a lot of women around the world, who have much more pressing issues than half the tripe discussed on here. Just an opinion, which I'm free to share, as is Mike from Croydon if he so chooses.

But evidently you have zero sense of humour and can't stand not to get the last word in, so I'll humbly step down and let you have it - have a good day, you're welcome 😘 xx

Oh, this post again. Makes an appearance every now and again, been a while!
It's a site for PARENTS. You know, both mums and dads. Seeing as men look after their kids as well, they can need parenting support too.
Even the strap line says it's for parents. "By parents, for parents" At least it did last time I looked.

Different concerns, yes. Claiming any one group has a homogenous ‘way of looking at things’ – no.

Replace that with any other group or demographic and ask yourself how that sounds.

As much as it’s true that anyone can post here, I tend to agree with the above.

Although maybe paradoxically, I hate it when a man posts genuinely looking for advice and gets a pile on just because he’s a man, even when he’s being entirely reasonable - that makes me embarrassed at being a woman sometimes.

But overall, the slightly smug “man here” comments wind me up. If my DH was posting on a board named “mumsnet” it would be a major ick for me - him thinking women need his opinion on anything. Hell I don’t even need it and I’m his wife 🤣

This is such a crock

People are always being accused of being male on here and it usually because they aren't "toeing the line" of what is deemed the "right" female response

Such an unintelligent goading reply in order to try and get someone to shut up, simply because you don’t like what they are saying.

The observation is that you think all men have the same way of looking at things.

Yet you keep bringing it back to experience time and time again.

I’ll have to take that as either a) you can’t read b) you can’t answer.

Probably both.

I can see no way that a man's comments can 'undermine' women's issues - what a quaint idea. It's only words on a page. No bloke is shouting you down, speaking over you, interrupting you, mansplaining; behaviours that are unfortunately rife irl. They often write in a recognisably male way, so you don't have to pay them any heed if you don't want to.

A huge percentage of women on these boards do precisely this.

Do you have an issue with people doing this? Or only men?

Yes all women in the UK are worrying about FGM, not being allowed to go to school or work, being forced into marriages as a child, legally being raped, dying from childbirth because the medical facilities aren't adequate...

White, Christian, straight women all have to worry about racism, religious discrimination, homophobia...

Not withstanding the fact the site is openly FOR everyone

You are the one that sound stupid

You cannot treat women as one giant thing which thinks and experiences everything the same

Just like you can't say that all black/Jewish/Asian/Muslim/Gay/etc people have the same issues and think the same

I going to assume anyone who thinks "I know this poster is a man because of what they say" are the same people who "can always tell" and harassment non-conforming women in bathrooms

decent men don't post on .. where?

A forum talking about anything and everything, including parenting/ kids behaviour/ kids activities/ kids gifts...

So according to you decent men are not involved in parenting, must stay well out of the kitchen/laundry room./ and anything that has the word "mum" in it, and we stay in the kitchen while they go to work, is that it? 😂

Are you one of these women I've seen in real life, strongly objecting to men going to baby groups and baby clinics, how dads dare being involved with their own children?

If my DH was posting on a board named “mumsnet” it would be a major ick for me - him thinking women need his opinion on anything.

but it's not a female forum, so is it a ick for a man to post of a forum?

Why do you think anyone need your opinion then? (or anyone's opinion?) By definition a forum is a conversation, why can't people put their opinion on there?

And if he was asking a question, or trying to help, would that be a ick too?

Very bizarre attitude.

Current active threads...

These don't scream FEMALE ONLY forum to me, or am I missing something? You'd think as a female I should have received the memo that all of these are protected female issues 😂

One of those is a thread about women's clothing sizing and another is about a man demanding sex from his female partner. Screams female to me. But whatever.

Missing the point much?

no-one said it was a MALE forum, who said you couldn't have what you think are female threads? And all the male working in the fashion industry might disagree on that one, but whatever.

If all these threads I screenshot scream FEMALE to you, care to tell us what areas are MALE only? I am curious.

I don't think I'm the one missing the point.

The strapline is 'by parents for parents'.

I'm seriously doubting that all of the posters in the feminism section have kids given by how sexist they are - no way a man is going anywhere near some of them! They love to talk about how men commit majority of sex crimes but never once will you hear them mention that women commit the majority of child abuse.