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

Oh, there are some on here who will tell you misandry isn’t a thing… 🙄

Although if this was a period/menstrual forum I’d agree with you. Because the space isn’t for dads. However this is for parents despite the fun logo/name they chose for it

I don’t post on the FWR board, but will often read a trending thread there, and what I’ve read has really influenced my views on sex/gender issues and feminism/women’s issues generally over time. I thought I was fairly well-informed, but that board has given me a lot of food for thought, particularly around women’s rights, male privilege, gender and surrogacy.

People don’t always realise the power their words and experiences have, so while I understand why some people would prefer MN to be a women-only place, I think and hope there are benefits for anyone who is here with an open mind and no agenda.

There are a lot of racists on this site as well but thankfully people of all races/religions etc continue to post here despite not being 'universally welcome'.

Except of course if this thread was about the OP hating people of other ethnicities being here rather than men, it would've been zapped immediately.

Doesn't bother me at all.

There are some good blokes posting here regularly. You can tell they’re good blokes because you don’t know for ages that they actually are blokes and this is because they don’t announce ‘man here’, it just comes up in general conversation as a side note. We can’t and shouldn’t stop men posting here- the site is for anyone and everyone. It is very annoying when they do the ‘man here’ thing or come on to mansplain (like the memorable chap who wanted to educate us on how to use the internet 😂) But I’m glad there are some good men here who have made really valuable contributions over the years and respected the fact that this is largely a female-dominated space.

They as in all the dad's who aren't using dadsnet. Of course they're a group of individuals, that is exactly what groups are. Individuals can display similar patterns of behavior.
And actually we don't have to put up with it or move on. We can stick around and complain if we want to.

Fine then. It's "leisure". So why can't men do it?

I don’t like men here either. I feel like it should be a safe space for women. Men don’t need to intrude, hence the name Mumsnet! (And before anyone starts, no you don’t need to be a mum. But a woman!)

They do.

They post on Mumsnet during their leisure time, the same as everyone else 🤷‍♂️

YABU. I have noticed that some people assume that every disagreeable and sexist opinion comes from a male poster. This is far from being the case.

And before anyone starts, no you don’t need to be a mum. But a woman!

Have you informed Justine of this rule?

I like hearing a man’s opinion or knowing that men are hearing what women have to say/ getting the woman’s side. I’d prefer we get rid of the posters whose sole purpose is to force their opinion on everyone else/ make people feel crap/ get angry over everything and nothing, curse people out of it etc etc!!!

By "do it" I meant populate their own parenting forum. Women are the lifeblood of mumsnet, whatever the tagline may be.
If you think it is oh so easy, why haven't the men managed to populate a parenting forum of their own?
That's not a rhetorical question.

They are populating their own parenting forum 😳

Mumsnet is for parents (and non parents) whether you like it or not.

Mumsnet has never really been for "parents" though has it? Whatever the tagline says, it's called mumsnet. They knew exactly who they were targeting and they knew who really uses it.
Utter bollocks that it's a "parents" forum. It's always been a women's forum in reality.

Yes but as individuals they cannot make any difference to the group popularity of a website . ‘They’ as a group can’t do anything about its lack of usership.

I said you have to put up with it OR move on. And if you choose not to move on of course you have to put up with it, because no mater how much you complain, it will still happen. Complaining is neither here nor there.

Men are still welcome, regardless of how you interpret the usership or what the main demographic is.

Possibly because this is a patriarchal society where child-rearing is seen as a predominantly female role. As a consequence good/busy parenting sites tend to have a heavy bias towards women.

Of course they can. A collection of individuals become a group. If none of them ever bother, of course it can't become a group.

If you honestly believe an anonymous internet forum, with possibly million of users around the world, is a "safe space" for anyone, you really should get off the internet

It's always been a majority women's forum. It's never been an exclusively women's one. Justine et al have repeatedly made it clear that that's how they want it to be

You might not like what the tagline says but it's there because the owners of the site want it to be there.

so your idea is to ban men from parenting forums, because it's a "women issue".
Brilliant, that's progress.

Proves the point, I doubt women could come up with this kind of crap, that sounds straight from the mouth of one of these "women-hating male" we hear so much about.

Mumsnet? I dunno

Oh bbbbut Justine said....