Men are twats.

[Truckulentagain]

Here's one.

I watched QI the other day and Jo Brand called Rob Brydon a knobhead, and it was commented on that it wouldn't be acceptable for him to insult her.
(or something like that)

So why on MN is it acceptable and common to call male partners and ex's cunts, dickheads, wankers, knobheads, tossers and twats etc. and other posters either start the insults or call them the same without any comment. I've noticed this in real-life as well.

Also Dad's are dead-beat, absent, Disney and feckless. Probably not at the same time though. But any criticism of a Mother (own Mum and MIL are allowed) is frowned upon (to put it mildly)

If I wrote a post and called my ex these things it wouldn't go down very well and no one would join in with the insults.

Is it something anyone else notices happening?

I think it's one of those things that's so ingrained it is accepted.

The thing is on most of the threads, where men are being called names (and i have my ex) there is a reaso for it. He is being violent, not contacting the child, letting the mum down etc. We dont have a randon thread, which says "lets slag all men off" Although now you are giving me ideas! Generally the male population is okay, i am sure you have found that the majority of the female population is okay too, BUT there are some right nasty ignorant horrid people out there and they do deserve the names they are being called. You dont see much about women on here BUT it is a female dominated site.

P.S Even women on here get lynched. I know from experience!

To moderate Dadsnet would be a lonely, lonely job.

'Oooh there's a post, oh no it isn't'
Two days pass...

It would give you to think though.

It would be a very very easy job.....is it well paid? Can i apply please?

What you're talking about there in your OP is your lesser spotted double standard. I've been quite interested in this just lately as I've been exploring the world of gender politics.

It's a real shame that Dadsnet is so quiet.

Op, doesn't it pretty much answer your question that Dadsnet is so quiet?
My DH would not dream of posting on here;
a) because he knows he'd get lynched for being such a crap dad
b) because he knows he can post on such sites as Facebook, where manners don't exist, so he can slag me off to his heart's content and get all his blokey mates to offer him sympathy about what a terrible wife I am
c) He, like a good number of fuckwit dads, are not interested in posting on sites where they might, just might, get some insight into what being a father is all about.

It always makes me smile when someone posts for relationship advice on something relatively minor and the default response is 'dump the bastard'. The fact that they are getting a short one sided synopsis of a very complex situation does not seem to occur to these self styled Marge Proops types. Even in cases when someone is being unfaithful in some way, which is clearly very corrosive for a relationship, there will usually be an underlying problem in the relationship that partially prompts the situation. Instead of encouraging posters to attempt to tackle the underlying issues (if they want to save the relationship), we usually get a litany of name calling of the man involved from the usual suspects (perhaps not undeserved but what material help is that?).

"Op, doesn't it pretty much answer your question that Dadsnet is so quiet?
My DH would not dream of posting on here;"

I'm not sure your DH is a good example. Of course there aren't many men on MN, but I think a lot of those who are don't actually post much on dadsnet - instead they use other forums which are more active. Not much that a man would come on MN for which sits here best rather than in a more specific area. Personally I still enjoy browsing AIBU and occasionally giving you all the benefit of my wisdom :o

They don't post on Dadsnet because as soon as they do they get screamed at by the female supremacists who patrol MN like it's their private fiefdom.

flatpack I don't tend to post on dadsnet because I don't have any dad specific issues. I haven't felt the need. Anything I want to discuss tends to be on the greater MN area and I have yet to be called deadbeat, Disney or anything else.

I'm upfront about being male, it's on my profile, I've mentioned it in several posts and I've been made very welcome here! I'm yet to come across any female supremacists patrolling MN and trying to castrate me and ive been here longer than a day!

Either stick around and enjoy MN for the wonderful place it is and immerse yourself into its culture or don't. In order to not contravene the talk guidelines in won't use the MN vernacular of FTFO, but you get the gist.

I think it's quite interesting that there is an element of sexism towards men on MN.

It certainly makes you think about general casual sexism when you're on the receiving end of it.

I do think some posters spend far too much time in relationships and another board though. I'm sure it distorts some peoples views of men/z