What’s disliked on Mumsnet but very popular in everyday life?

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What's hated on MN, but insanely popular in real life?

Disney World
Starbucks, Costa, Nero etc
Center Parcs
A sensible political stance
McDonald's

What else?

In real life, women have boyfriends, partners, male friends, male coaches, male doctors.. and are surrounded by a lot of males they actually like - or they wouldn't live/ holiday/ go out ... with them.

Most women, obviously, not ALL women.

I also believe that most women in real life do NOT like shared spaces (with men) for changing clothes/shared toilets etc. I don't.

I did laugh this one time though when we went into a shared 'toilet washroom' in a big shopping centre. (Well, the toilets were separate, you walked through a door that lead to the sinks and hand-dryers, then it was another door to the left for female and door to the right for male.)

Several women were in there with their DD's - incl us (washing our hands and preening in the mirror) and a man approached the (male) cleaner who was in there and said 'what the hell are those WOMEN doing in here, make them get out!' The cleaner said 'it's a mixed sex washroom, only the toilets themselves are male and female only.' I just smirked at him. I thought 'hahaha, you men don't like it when we are in YOUR spaces do you?!' (Although we weren't anyway, but you catch my drift hopefully!) The stupid c*nt still glared at us as if we were in the wrong though!

So cubicles. See maybe it's because I'm more family centred, but I thought "baby" changing areas. Which should be 100% gender neutral.

I would never strip off in front of a stranger btw, no matter what their sex is.

The public bathrooms in your area.

I also believe that most women in real life do NOT like shared spaces (with men) for changing clothes/shared toilets etc. I don't.

many women do not like shared space full stop. I don't want to change clothes or use the toilets in front of anyone.

If I am in a cubicle, I am good, and most of us are.

The changing cubicles in many swimming pools are perfectly suitable.

Much maligned on MN yet there seems to be a large number of people who know what's said in it. Odd that!

Husbands.

Let me be very clear, so there is no misunderstanding.

I don't want biological men using female chaning rooms.

I don't want biological men using female toilets.

I don't want biological men playing in women's sports team.

I don't want biological men who pretend to be women teaching in our schools.

Is my stance now clear?

Moving to Scotland. Apart from the more upmarket parts of Edinburgh and St Andrews it's full of Victorian levels of poverty. Everyone is drunk and they beat up English people. It's also minus 10 and dark all year round.

No because you mentioned "bathrooms" and I'd like to know where you have a public bath.

You know perfectly well what a bathroom means.

Also illegal. It's not an MN law as a PP claimed, it's an actual law.

In the scenario where one driver is sticking in the middle lane constantly and another is passing them in the left-hand lane in a careful and controlled while remaining under the speed limit, only.one of these drivers is de facto breaking the careless driving law - and it isn't the one who is undertaking.

Is this tongue in cheek?

Yes. A room with a bath. Is it a thing in London where people have baths with strangers? A new fad maybe?

Did we ever have public bathrooms, apart from in swimming pools in the days before having a bathroom at home was the norm? We certainly had public toilets/lavatories/loos, call them what you like but they never have a bath in there, a pre-requisite for a bathroom.

The thing I'm assuming (which I don't think is a massive leap) is that MN users have a higher education level than a random sample of the population, and skew more middle class. And we know how people said they voted in the referendum. I did a quick search to check before posting.
"While just 31% of those with low educational attainment (GCSE or below) voted to remain in the EU, fully 69% of those with high educational attainment (at least a Bachelor’s degree) did so. These education-based differences in Leave/Remain preferences were larger than those associated with other influential demographic characteristics, like age and income."

Exactly!

No it doesn't mean that.

Look you are obviously ok with trans women (or men) as us sane people call them using the same facilities as you.

Just own it, rather than being belligerent.

Fair enough. I'm not fond of changing in front of anyone either. Male or female. But male moreso!!!

Came to say this. I don't know anyone in real life who would know what it stood for.
I mean, they'd get the concept of shit meat/better foods etc but not thee term (or the turmoil around) UPF 🤷‍♀️

Imagine the double horror of a workman using your toilet and you not having a toilet brush... 😄💩

The middle lane sitting thing isn't just an MN thing, but it's massively overstated as a problem.

The other day I saw two people nearly cause crashes because they were trying to make a point to "middle lane sitters". Neither of them were middle lane sitters.

The first was in the second lane because the first lane was a slip road off the M25. Car is in middle lane. Another car comes whizzing along the third lane, cuts right across the car in the middle lane and straight into the inside lane - and nearly collides with a car which is joining the motorway. The car in the middle lane was NOT middle lane sitting and they're not going into the slip road to appease the hysterical people.

With the second incident, there were two lorries fairly close together. Car pulls over and overtakes first one and stays in middle lane to overtake second one. There is a small gap. Know-it-all car comes along, overtakes car, whizzes across into inside lane, pulls out straight away when realises lorry is there (how didn't it see it) and nearly collides with van pulling in from third lane.

I would strongly suggest that the middle lane sitter haters concentrate on their own driving. Middle lane sitters are not dangerous - the drivers who react badly to them are the dangerous ones. Everyone is in control of their own driving.

You mix with the wrong people.

Shoes off indoors. That includes visitors.
Having lots of friends.
Socialising.
Football.
Bottomless brunches.
Caring what you look like.

It does mean that! What other possible thing could it mean. A BATH room. Plus, are you actually saying that I'm insane and belligerent for disagreeing with you?