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

Then those posts should be reported. There is one particular male poster on here that is notorious for challenging women on stuff like this and being generally extremely misogynistic. He's very open about the fact he is male.

Exactly this everytime i stand up for men on here the first thing I get told is your a man aren't you. No but I have sons and decent men in my life and don't think all men are awful like certain women on here do.

But that's all in your head isn't it?

Because you, me, MNHQ and absolutely everyone on this thread have no clue what sex anyone here is.

And as a PP pointed out, some of the posters who say they're women are absolutely vile at times.

Twice a week every week someone starts a thread about how mean and horrible they think most MNetters are.

So genitalia is irrelevant.

The reason I know is because they always announce the fact they're male, as if it's some kind of achievement lol.

I like men's input here. It can also get a bit catty in here and the men provide some balance when it gets like that

I’m sorry but they don’t say “As a man…” for any other reason than to confirm the subsequent post is from the male perspective and is required as MN is majority female.
There’s no other nefarious reason and you are reading too much in to it.

I have a nice husband and sons too. But they are imperfect people (as are we all) in a man's world. It does nobody any good to pretend otherwise. There's a difference between "all men are awful" and "why can't men let us have something for ourselves".
Really decent men would want you to undo that social conditioning that makes you leap to their defense. It's a man's world, they'll be fine.

🤣 the cattiest work environment I ever had the misfortune to be in was full of men

Yeah because men are all sunshine and light aren't they?

Ok so if we change the name that will solve everyone’s problem will it?

Then they can bugger off to Dadsnet can't they . . .

No issue with men posting here at all. I don’t think they have to announce they are a man (unless it’s relevant), they should just jump in.

Misogynist post 🙄

Everyone is welcome but it does annoy me when they start by announcing their sex
Nobody cares mate

Doesn't bother me unless they start behaving like arseholes, which sadly some do. There was one mansplaining on a thread the other day who resorted to personal attacks when I challenged him on his mansplaining. Obviously there are nuisance posters and trolls of both sexes on MN, but somehow it's particularly galling when it's a bloke (for a lot of topics, anyway). (Although I probably shouldn't admit that in case that poster sees this thread, as I suspect his sole purpose on MN is to have fun annoying people. 🙄)

I don’t mind. It’s interesting to have another perspective.

Mumsnet have made it very clear many times that this is a site that was set up for helping parents but is now for anyone eg childless, Childfree, from anywhere in the world. Men were included from the very beginning.

I don’t really care one way or the other BUT I always think it a little bit weird a man would post on a site called Mumsnet.

Dadsnet is barely active. No individual man can change that and it’s not useful to be on an inactive forum.

Well, men can't be mums and it's called mumsnet

What a daft thing to say. Mumsnet is also full of individuals, most of whom are women. There's absolutely no reason men can't do the same thing. They have to start somewhere, but it's easier to jump after the ladies have done all the work isn't it...

Justine has said previously that ‘mumsnet’ is more catchy than ‘mums and dads net’ or ‘parents net’.

Again, what's the best way to troll Mumsnet and grab attention?

"Hello ladies, man here" 🤷‍♂️

You must be very naïve if you think that just because someone types something on the internet, it has to be true.

Therefore any posters causing trouble should be dealt with.

They can say that all they like, but they know full well who their target market and customer base really are.

That's their problem, why should it impact us?