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

Either it's open for everyone or it's exclusively for Mums as the name suggests. As it is, it's open for everyone so that includes men.

I really don't get your issues, it seems very bigoted to me to only want to discuss your life with a certain type of person. Do you feel the same about talking to people of different classes or race or is your bigotry just sex related?

If it's bullies and arrogant people you have an issue with you'll find plenty of women on here fitting that description.

Tagline is by parents for parents. Last i checked, men can be parents too.

Btw - and you may want to sit down for this - there are loads of posters who aren't even parents at all!!!

ok "mr " wonderful....does your partner agree with your sentiment ?

I suggest you post on Relationships if you actually want advice and help to leave. If you just want to complain and start a fight, you’re in the right place.

I shall ask him when I get home shortly. Seriously though, why not use your anger to motivate you out of your current situation?

I get it's not so easy to just leave an abuser, but there is help out there. Unless you are literally a captive you don't need permission to leave.

Men are welcome here the same as anybody. I very much doubt your (hopefully soon to be) ex frequents the halls though, so try and stop misdirecting your hate.

25 years married to my husband and we love the bones of each other.

I have absolutely no problem with men turning to a parenting website for parenting advice.

A twat is going to be a twat and a troll is going to be a troll, regardless of whatever they have between their legs 🤷‍♂️

Yep, I agree with you OP.

I actually think sometimes it's helpful for men to post in here to get women's perspectives. I like to think we really help some men understand how their wives/GF may be feeling and how to handle certain situations well.

The only time I don't like men on MN are the assholes who deliberately wind us up with their utter shite.

men should absolutely feel welcome here.

The only time I don't like men on MN are the assholes who deliberately wind us up with their utter shite.

Whenever I read an obvious troll being obvious and saying "Man here", I assume it's a female troll who knows exactly how to wind everyone up.

One can never tell of course but I base it on the fact MN is mostly still populated by women.

I think it probably should be called parentsnet but then again theres people that aren't even parents here so peoplesnet could be more appropriate but suppose that doesn't have the same ring to it. It's called Mumsnet but it also says "by parents for parents" the term parent is for both male and female parents therefore for both mum's and dad's.

It's a parenting forum. The more men who step up to parenting the better and it should be normalised. We didn't all chose to marry useless men, and I'm sure there are groups of posters we would all get rid of. I'd get rid of the champagne socialists but we have to accept there are lots of different people in the world.

The clue is in this which was written by MNHQ...

"We hope Mumsnet isn't exclusive to mums and indeed we know we have a number of dads who log on and contribute. If it doesn't sound too pompous we think the concept of “mumming/mothering” goes beyond gender so don't feel Mumsnet is too exclusive. We did think of calling the site parentsnet.com but it just sounded so hideous."

And as for 'inserting themselves where they're not wanted', you should probably read the whole thread as many of us are fine with parents wanting to use a parenting website.

Ooo it's been at least a couple of weeks since the last why are men here thread. Must be a record

It's always been that way OP and will always be that way.

Not keen on male posters, it's' always obvious who's not female.

Not keen on being addressed as ladies either, especially on this thread as it sounds patronising.

Mumsnet should change its name to parentnet as clearly MN are wanting a male user base to boost clicks. Mumsnet is misleading as a name now.

Unless a male poster says they are a man, how would you know?
for all I know the op could be a male!
no one knows who anyone is.

eh, it's usually rather obvious. And, absolutely, OP could very much be male. I'd say there is a good chance.

How can you possibly know which posters are male and which are female? Posts here are anonymous.

I could tell you that I'm a 47-year-old (who happens to be male) with two kids in their teens.

On the other hand I could say I'm a 73-year-old great grandmother whose 17-year-old granddaughter had a baby 3 weeks ago.

I'm actually neither of the above, but that's the point. We have no means of verifying any information that posters disclose about themselves.

On most interesting threads, it's quite obvious.

Yabu

It is entirely justified though. Men hate women. If they could be sexually attracted to each other, and exploit the labour of each other, then they wouldn't form relationships with women. Lucky they have you defending them though

(Absolutely no need for the NAMALT/Not My Nigel brigade to tell me how wrong I am).

If they don't start with that ridiculous NAMALTing and MRA nonsense, I'm ambivalent. I certainly don't subscribe to all the excitement about a 'male perspective', as if there's one thing the world doesn't lack, it's the opinions of men. We hear quite enough of them elsewhere and I value a space for women's voices and perspectives to dominate.