Breaking News : Do you agree with a woman succeeding the throne?

[Manathome]

Commonwealth countries agree constitutional changes to remove gender discrimination in the order of succession to the British throne. Is this the start of an even slippery slope to mayhem in this country, or is it a positive thing?

I am confused with all the changes I face today, I now seem to be living in an alien country to the one I was born in, and I have had no choice in the matter.

A wind up, and not a very good one either.

I really really don't understand today. I feel like you all understand and I don't. Can someone explain? Have I again been serious on a non-serious thread?

And now I have started thinking about the monarchy which always makes me cross. And I don't have any bacon.

Manathome you remind me of someone, I think Beesimo has returned under a new guise maybe.....

Has your man not been providing for you then ddp?

manathome giving you the benefit of the doubt, are you posting because you actually are having a tough time adjusting to being a SAHD?

Are you the only SAHD you know? Was it something that men didn't do when you were growing up? Are you missing your working life?

In my own experience, SAHDs are quite a usual thing. I've known many families where it has happened not by choice but because the woman was able to get work but not the man (this was the norm where I live now for many tough years!). But also many families that are structured this way by choice.

My BIL has been a SAHD for the past seven years. My own DH and I both work part-time from home, so he is a SAHD half the time and a WAHD half the time. In his previous marriage, he was a SAHD for 10 years. My own dad - way back in the 1970s - was a SAHD for a few years.

I feel bad for you if it feels like a strange or unnatural choice. But I assure you that it is perfectly 'manly' and perfectly natural, and also something that many men do quite well.

You haven't asked if you are being unreasonable.

Are you aware that Mumsnet has a section called In The News?

Just read some other comments, so a quick update before I take the kids out and do some man stuff like look at pigs in the farm, you know smelly dirty stuff, beats Waitrose anti bacterial cleaner any day

I am retired, have two kids 9 and 2yrs both girls, older boys grown up and left home, found out what was causing kids, dealt with that. Could do consultancy work but cost of childcare, house cleaners, gardeners and tax would outweigh benefits of me staying at home (according to wife). So here I am alone in an alien world of wiping arses and worktops (no connection). I am trying to integrate with women but find it hard as I have worked in a mainly male environment and getting on with women has never been my strong point

Anyway, I love my kids, I have bonded even more than I ever imagined, they love me to bits and we have fun, wife is 10yrs younger so plainly clear that I have less time to live than her and less time on this earth with my kids, so I may making the best of it. I am not one for messing about, I like to learn from others and learn from their mistakes rather than make them myself, I have loads of knowledge to share and could well do without the bitchy comments aimed at me suggesting I am a woman, I have a dick and I am proud of it, plus I don't have a chip on my shoulder

Nice to meet you all

i embroidered that one with the phrase 'my lord is my master' and fashioned a likeness of my DH under the script, do you like?

Oh I love it and I can still see the stains where you anointed his feet

I don't agree with the monarchy.

Vive la République!

Sorry this is all too fast, I MUST get out of the house, but in answer to the last couple of posts YES I DO miss work and interaction with MEN (not in a gay way in a jovial manly way, if you could ever understand men).

It takes some bottle (in my eyes0 to come into a den of women and try and get help, especially when you are accused of being a woman. One totally silly thing was that in my mind the section 'I'm on' I thought related to a woman thing so didn't look in it, OK daft I know but that is the kind of things I am trying to overcome, I am an ex commando so not a wimp or looking for cuddles, I just want to know WHAT I am turning into, how the hell can I go to the pub and talk to another man in there, odds are they will think I am odd

Off out now, so not hiding from you back later (after making dinner for my wife of course!!!!)

Manathome, you're my hero.

your dick is firmly on your head if you think that childcare is only for women and gays. What on earth was that awful homophobic comment about? What do you mean "found out what was causing kids"?

If you don't want bitchy comments then don't go online and post, on a site aimed at women, a whole load of sexist and homophobic drivel. Obviously people will tell you that is not reasonable. If you want to share your so called knowlegde and learn from others there are better ways of doing it really than winding people up with bigoted comments.

"found out what was causing kids"

that would be having an unprotected sex right? Did they not cover this when you went to school?

Why are you so obsessed with people thinking you are gay anyway? What is that about? I assume that since you are married with 4 children people are unlikely to assume you are gay.

It 'takes some bottle' to sit at home tapping your keyboard?

Jeez are you sure you'll be ok leaving the house?

There are scary things out there....like leaves falling off trees.

Hello. We've moving this thread to In the News

would YOU like a cushion too, HelenMN?

this one depicts a man tilling the soil like a real man should do

worra, that wasn't annointing oil, that's my blood, sweat and tears. the ones i shed daily over the housework [martyr]

Oh could you see your way to shedding some of that blood, sweat and tears whilst cleaning my kitchen?

This thread is making me laugh. 'Tis really funny

Helen doesn't get a cushion she is a working woman and deserves our scorn.

Stealing good jobs that non gay men could be doing, tsk

i'll do it later, am orft to the hairdressers now, got to look my best for DH you know