Can you believe that someone would make something up like this?

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/breast_and_bottle_feeding/675145-BF-39-didn-39-t-work-out-39-what-does?msgid=13 867137

See most recent posts. I hope I am wrong about this, as I feel sick that someone could troll in this way.

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Think is appalling bad taste to make up story like that to emphasis a point. Grim.

What a strange post.

(The one on the original thread. Not yours, Tiktok)

Why on earth would anyone make up something like that???

Maybe she will remove it....

so why start an entirely new thread about it? what purpose does that serve?

Nancy: Because I was hoping to shame her into withdrawing and if she does I will withdraw mine and all trace of it will go.

Fair enough

Glad you agree.....I am actually genuinely upset about this, not sure why. I have never reported a post before as I don't like censorship, and will not report this one, either, as I just hope she removes it.

Maybe the reason for my reaction is that I felt so shocked for her and obviously, like anyone, I thought 'oh God, imagine that...poor woman....'

Then I got suspicious. It's almost as bad as that woman who invented the kid dying of cancer (was that on mumsnet?) .

Have to say that i do actually think she was being sarcastic - and trying to make the point that FF mums are made to feel like they have to have a damn good reason not to BF.

Not defending her, horrible thing to say but I don't think she was stating a fact.

Well, obviously she wasn't stating a fact. I don't understand your point, sorry - you mean she wasn't looking for attention (unlike mum of 'dying' kid)? Well, no, but I don't see what difference that makes. Sick. Sick. Sick.

Hmmmm.
I do agree it's a horrible horrible thing to say. But I wonder if she was trying to be sarcastic, making an off the cuff remark. It's not funny... at ALL... but I do think that very often when things are written over the internet, the tone can be misconstrued (sp?) very easily

TBH, I read it as being sarcastic too. Still not a nice thing to say.

Of course attention seeking is a part of it - which was why I questioned the wisdom of starting a whole new thread about it.

I meant I didn't read it and, for a minute, think it had happened to her - i just read it and thought 'stupid girl what an offensive way of trying to make a point.'

Missed the whole dying kid episode. It's the internet - a universal nutter magnet.

i read it like nancy tbh - i didn't think jojo had been the victim of such an attack, but was just saying, 'is this the only reason that bf fanatics will accept' in desperation/ exasperation.

i'm a bit live and let live fwiw, bf'd 2 but couldn't bf no. 3 because she was tube fed. expressed for a while, but with 2 toddlers and a baby fresh out of scbu, the expressing was taking up way too much time. i did leave scbu with about 80 bottles of expressed frozen bm though, so it tided me over for a while lol.

so i guess i should have relied on the other topic - dd2 has a disability, so bf 'didn't work out. i could talk you through the whole story, but 'bf didn't work out' is probably all that the OP needed to know... i haven't read the rest of the thread btw, i'm sure there are similar stories...

I read it as sarcasm too.
But I do know someone who told a very similar story about sexual assault, and was later proven wrong -she said that her uterus was removed as a result of the injuries. Massive sympathy (and a lot of people very upset) and then a few years later she had a baby.
So obviously some people do make things up.

Agree with Nancy66...it sounded like sarcasm to highlight a point. Do not condone this but the FF vs BF debates can always make the most gentle person spit bile and react in certain ways.

OK - yes, I understand, she was being sarcastic, and possibly unthinking. If she's a nice person in RL, and this is just a weird aberration, she will remove her post (and I will remove my reference to it so no one will ever know what she said). Simple.

Yes, I read it as sarcasm, too - because it wasn't the way someone who had suffered that would talk about it - I assumed it wasn't supposed to be literal. I can see that some people would find it unacceptably tasteless, but I don't think it's a deliberate attempt to take people in. Her anger in making the post seems real.

It was a sarcastic remark. It was in bad taste but you could have dealt with on the thread it was posted on.

Now I feel like a gullible twat for believing her in the first place...so FFS, jojo, remove your post, you sicko

nah. leave it there as a reminder to folk why not to start bf/ ff threads lol.

She cant remove the post can she?

I didn't read that as sarcastic - but as something that had happened to her - which was really upsetting and awful. A lot of women on here have had some brutal things happen to them and I just don't think that it's something to make light of.

27 - yes, I believe you can remove your own post or get mumsnet tech to do it on request.

tumtum - glad it's not just me who believed her (for a short time).

Just checked - you can highlight any post for removal by clicking on the ! icon and this reports it. No reason why you can't do it with your own.