Could everybody who has a grandiose sense of entitlement over the following sectors of society :

[MaggiePie]

those on benefits
single mothers
drug addicts who manage to function and not live in a shanty..

If you feel that you are superior and deserve more, and get the ache when the above people can cobble together enough to get by on, if that pisses you off, then de-register and go and pollute some other forum, cos this used to be a good one where this kind of toxic mindset was very rare.

Thank you.

Well not I have worked out what the title means I agree with you op BTW begrudgery is a fine word.

Not going to post about WOHMs

I am struggling to get the jist of what this thread is about! Help?

I would just like to point out that everyone except me is shit.

Interesting points, MaggiePie.

I think logic can fly out of the window when something's being discussed that is so personal to your circumstances. So I get the heebie jeebies when someone (one person - not generalising about any group) says WOHM 'dump' our children with 'strangers' yadda yadda. And while it's water off an old duck's back now, when I first went back to full-time work, it upset me.

You're right - why do people begrudge others? I love the diversity of MN; I learn something most visits. It's just lazy thinking to berate groups like 'single parents' SAHMs etc.

I think one could sum it up by saying that:

Some of us on here are right Judgeypants.

Some of us don't like being judged, but reserve the right to judge others ourselves.

Some of us just enjoy the resulting fall out between the judges and the judgees for its entertainment value.

But if none of it went on, and we had threads like "Oh hun, I totally respect your way of doing things, what a nice idea" all the time, then this would turn in to Netmums and no-one would bother coming on here

free open expression regardless of odious views is best.MN does self regulate if a post is rotten folk notice and react. so the nasty posts eg single mums/dss/etc do get a grilling. which comes back to the beauty of mn is everyone gets maligned at some time on it. at some point everyone gets a pasting

re;tampon knitting mums the only bit i embellished was the knit your own,but the general gist otherwise accurate.truly i have seen people be advised to sell up,downsize,no holidays,no consumer durables,mend clothes,etc.all for the children.aha but obviously not broadband or pc since you are still on mn. so you dont love em kids that much that you cant forgo broadband...

and yes i stand by working mums with children in nursery (and formula feeders) get a regular -near-- daily mn kicking as social pariahs

Yes women who stay at home rarely get squished and accused of being stupid.

within 30min of musing whether to use nursery a mum was asked "dont you like your children"

any topic on mn can evoke a strong response but the ole perennials always hit the spot
working/sahm
formula feeding

but hey that is open forums for you and actually mn is better for fact people can and do have diverse opinions

trick is not to personalise it. it is all about the posts not the poster. i may dislike posts,but i dont dislike posters

Netmums were discussing Mumsnet, and apparently they don't swear, but were talking about the itchiness and how we call each other unts,

Yes and missing the beginning consonant makes it OK.....

And also how they felt sorrry for all our children.

Very little riles or offends me, I don't often take things personally and am more likely to be a little supercilious about some of the apalling attitudes that come across sometimes...

I am better than no-one and the reverse is true, but I would defend people being maligned for no other reason than social snobbery, or inverted snobbery, for that is just as prevellant.

dont actually know what netmum is.never meandered over

and i like a good ole profanity none of this cutsey ucking unts

spit it oot

Hear hear MP!

Haven't read the rest of the thread, but your opening comments are spot on.

Off you fuck, compassionless morons.

no one can instruct anyone to de-register except MNHQ,and it is out of order to do so

if you dont like a post 2 stark choices
1 ignore and hide it
2 participate and assert your view

chocolatemoose so well put -
'The Secret Millionaire' ch4 programme is brilliant for showing people starting off thinking that if everyone worked as hard as they do then they too would be millioniaires instead of living on a sink estate.
Then they end up realsing that there are a lot of people working just as hard as them if not harder and earning fuck all.
Very unsettling and humbling for them to realise that luck/circumstance as well as hard work has contributed to their fortune.

I've never looked at Netmums in any depth before (was put off by the pastel-ness of the home page) but have just checked out that thread and...

ROFL at issing out the irst ord of wear ords! Because, apparently, there are 13 year old on there. If a 13 year old can't work out what an "unt" is, they have had a very sheltered life...

Although I suppose a nasty itch could be misconstrued...