to think MN is sexist?

[MrsSeanBean]

It should surely be called ParentGuardianorOtherCarerNet?

Anything else is outrageously discriminatory.

Are we not offended?

mummys ok when your 3 or 4, but if my 15 year old came in and called me "mummy" i'd laugh.

Mum is vulgar
Mummy is never vulgar

rofl at it being ok for women to talk about bumsex but not the chaps.Tis true 9althoguh etiquette allows them to join in if they have been posting for at least 5 years and do so with a degree of wit and humour)

yes I cringe when ds says it. I may have to hypnotise him.

daftpunk has a point though. (Nearly typed daftpoint has a punk then.)

ah no worries, i called you mrs sgb earlier, god knows why cos solidgoldbrass wouldn't say hello to me if we were the only two on here (only joking sgb)

hope you're settling into mn ok msb, and i really hope you stay around

right, i've got to run...xmas fair today,

lucky me!

Catch ya later daftpunk-gater

I think they should rename it. Maybe we could start a thread about it in 'baby names'. And argue about it ad infinitum. Or just call it Bob's net. As a tribute. To Bob. He's great.

WTF...see how silly this can get

MN is less sexist than the rl. we are skewed towards greatness. natch.

mummysnet?

hmmmm.

I quite like 'fishnets', the land were pc-ness is tossed soundly out of the window in favour of fashion and bumsex.

My children call me darling in moments of affection. Or ma'am, accompanied with a curtsy. But then they are well brought up little cherubs and not like the commoners round here .

Oh and their advent calender is hand-made with individually stitched felt toys in each pocket.

Skidoodle, 'mummy' is vulgar? I've never heard anything so pompous! YOU must be joking?

HOw can an innocent word like Mummy be vulgar? Swear words are vulgar, revealing too much info about your sex life is vulgar, getting drunk is vulgar.....

'mummy'

I used to work with a girl in her thirties who called her mother 'mummy'. It was so laughably affected. I'd spoken to her lovely but not posh father on the phone. He was probably worth about 40 of her.

My mother was one of 9, they grew up on a farm in Wicklow. They all called their parents mummy and daddy. Not a posh thing at all. jUst what they did.

I say Mum becase I'm 37 ffs! I know I'm not common but it is so ludicrous to think that people are reading so much into whether you say mum or mummy.

Just depends. I know some of my children's friends at universities call their parents mummy and daddy and I am cross the school books the twins read never vary. They always use mum. It's as if our class such as it is, is discriminated against unless we read Enid Blyton I suppose who does use mummy and daddy. Yet their books will show black and white children. So why not posh and poor ones?

Not that any of it really matters. It's just good fun and don't forget the Times site is alphamummy (never alpha mum)......

Is that not because her children are still quite young though?

I stopped saying Mummy at about 13. When I accidentally said it, if it slipped out, I was so embarrassed. I felt a baby.

My father died this year. He was 79. We always called him daddy and I'm 46. It just depends on your family, doesn't it and how they speak.

My mother still refers to her deceased mother as 'mummy' and she is in her 70's.

Talking about Enid Blyton btw, I was reading to my dc1, old copies, my own from my childhood, and I had to do a quick 'sobre la marcha' edit to make it a little more pc.

Captain Arnold and Mrs Arnold and Mafumu and the mountain folk. Crikey!!!

I think the new editions sold in the shops have been re-jigged so as not to offend.

...the urchins refer to me as 'Pater'.

Though they are, plainly, silent until or unless I address them first.....

I call my mother mum. I only call her mummy when I'm being annoying.
Don't care if anyone calls me common.

DS calls me mama (as in "MAMAMAMAMAMAMA!!!!!!") which I think is cute. But I guess it'll degenerate into mummy when he gets a bit more articulate.

And WHAT is wrong with the odd bit of sexism anyway, as long as it is lighthearted and not seriously exclusive.

We are different FGS and I for one am bloody glad that is the case. And if a group of men or women seek the same sex company from time to time so what?

I am strong, independant, stubborn, wilfull, and capable of doing practically anything I want. But I do like to be made to feel feminine and womanly. And would use it to my advantage if it suited me to do so!!!

So it is 'mumsnet', so what? I have never encountered a 'dad' being the subject of any kind of predjudice....(some of them even have very interesting opinions, ).

There is something particular about the way men and women relate to each other in same sex or mixed groups and I for one hope it never changes .

PC is, for the most part....Pretentious Crap, and does more damage than the issues it rails against.

so there,

swishes flirtily off the thread and looks coyley over shoulder with NO shame!!!!!!

Smiles - could not agree more

Do come and back me up in AIBU sometime.

Only mama or mater in this household.

Anything else is so common, innit.

What thread are you on MrsSeanBean?

And the father of your children calling you mum or mummy.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

i dont think the name 'mumsnet' is sexist.if it was do you really think people would post or become so addicted?

i do think though that mothersnet sounds good.

@Newsmonger

LOL

More pompous that Xenia saying it's common to use the word "mum"? Right before I wrote that?

Anyway, I was only half joking. I hate the word "mummy", it makes me think of Scooby-Doo

I'm 49 and still call my dad 'daddy'.

I don't say it in front of others, as it's a tad embarrassing, but tbh, it's his name! It would be like me suddenly deciding that instead of being called Alison I now want to be called Annie.

DS1 (16) and DS2 (13) still call me mummy - and I know it will change, but I like it.