When Mumsnet made a forage into politics we were hammered down with the press calling it a Mumsnet election and politicians were criticised for spending too much time here. Then of course some journos chose to ignore the very relevant and pertinent questions to say that we just talked biscuits with these politicians.
I have a feeling some journos have their own agendas.
Mumsnet is never going to be popular as it is full of opinionated women who will not back down or shut up. And that makes some commentators uncomfortable.
Jeremy Clarkson has been rightly criticised many times on Mumsnet and the guff he writes is generally considered meaningless.
As for charities, Mumsnet teamed up with female cancer charities for a month, Mumsnet has supported Every Disabled Child Matters and I remember the huge campaign on maternal mortality.
Plus the campaign for Let Girls Be Girls which had a lot of media interest and forced some shops to do a u-turn on its products.
Recently TopShop were forced to remove 2 offensive t-shirts thanks to Mumsnetters highlighting how inappropriate they were in glamourising DV.
The support threads are fantastic and offer a vital link for women going through DV.
As for Starbuck mummies, as a working class mum living in an ex-council house I take huge umbrage at the media reports that the whole of Mumsnet is full of Desperate Housewives. There are a wide range of mums on here, from all backgrounds and all walks of life. I've personally met other working class mums, single mums, proud gay mums, disabled mums, middle class mums, older mums, very young mums, professional mums and SAHMs and they all had one thing in common; they weren't afraid to speak their minds and all had received and given support to other mums on Mumsnet.
When strangers send your kids Christmas presents, when you come across a random act of kindness, you are reminded that there are some bloody good people out there that breaks down the class boundaries. So shame on her for joining in the media resentment of Mumsnet.