Neil Tweedie, for instance ...

[WineBeforePearls]

is a prat

Anniemac must have got home from work early, obviously, to post at 1600 and really should be cleaning instead of wasting time online.

Kewcumber lives in Kew, therefore must be a bored City wife (oh boy)

prat prat prat

[MrsNeilTweedie]

I haven't time to go the correct topic. But do any of you know how a wife might boost the self esteem of a husband with a teeensy, weeeeensy penis. For a friend. Obviously.

[ahundredtimes]

at ovulation calendars being the work of the devil.

Well this has been most enjoyable. Sadly I now have to go to work clean my house.

[Merrylegs]

(I wouldn't worry about the size, tbh - it's probably only 'dipped in and out')

[TheCrackFox]

You would need to go to Relationships to advise your friend. However, I have heard that men lacking in the trouser department find that their self esteem goes through the roof if they have a wife who likes to do housework all day; ironing, toilet cleaning and dusting are all massive turn ons. If a cleaner was to enter the relationship it would make him feel less manly as it hints to the fact he is married to someone not entirely feminine.

[TheOldestCat]

Highbrow journalism at its very best.

[TheOldestCat]

Shall we set our mate Ali C on him? He only chatted to us mere mummies for an hour too.

[cocolepew]

Oh they printed my comment. I'm so proud.

Do I get paid by the word?

[Kewcumber]

Fame at last!

[TheCrackFox]

Oi, shouldn't you be scrubbing a toilet or something equally worthwhile?

[Longtalljosie]

How incredibly mysogynistic.

Women are on the internet when they should be cleaning the house, appears to be its key message.

I know Westminster's a bit of a boy's club, but surely someone should have pointed out how this sounds?

[Kewcumber]

sorry didn't respond earlier Crackfox - was hoovering the board room.

[thumbwitch]

what a superly crap article. What an idiot. Although am still chuckling because I am picturing him and Mrs Tweedie as being them out of Chicken Run.

I can't believe someone thought netmums was a better site...

And is MN really only small bananas in comparison to it? Am at that.

Mind you, if we're all middle class yummy mummies from Barnes, that would make sense of course - there can't be that many women in Barnes. Or Kew.

[duchesse]

He's only jealous that the political leaders would rather talk to us than to him. And who wouldn't be interested interviewing someone with such well thought-out, cogently expressed opinions? Bet Mrs Tweedie (unless she is ex MrsTweedie) feels she got a real catch there...

[MadameDefarge]

I see Mr and Mrs Tweedie rather like Christine And Neil Hamilton...notice the same first name? Hmmmm.

[Northernlurker]

I hope Neil will be coming on for a webchat soon. What a merry time we could have. I'd have to take a day off work though

It would be worth it.

[WilfSell]

Oooh another Neil Twattie thread. I'm determined to post on them all just so I can follow the outrage.

Fucking Einstein-Bohr discussions.

Come back with that complaint, Twattie, when YOU have a PhD...

[WilfSell]

100x!!

I hadn't seen this thread but posted exactly the same Money Shot of him on one of the other threads. Mmmm.

[JackBauer]

There's no escape as th interweb eats itself!
I wasn't going to MN for a bit, was catching up on news, and then got linked o this thread.
dammit
What a prize, his mummy must be so proud.

[Theochris]

I lurk mostly but the article motivated me to comment. What a patronising cock! TBH though it does make him look not just like a misogynist but an internet novice.

Einstein-Bohr ha because he is so high brow!

[theyoungvisiter]

Only just seen this one! I was busy venting on the CM thread.

Here's a cut and paste for you Neil:

A mumsnet user described Mr Tweedie's article as "the most patronising, paternalistic, sexist pile of lazy stereotyped journalism I've read in a long time".

How about, next time you want to do a bit of lazy cut-and-pasting to fill out your word count you venture out beyond Chat and AIBU, and visit some of the OTHER areas of the board. You know. The ones that don't fit in with your lazy preconceptions of yummy mummies with poor spelling yammering while their husband toils in the city?

How about you look at Special Needs? Why not highlight their campaign to get an allowance of more than 4 nappies a day for a doubly incontinent child?

Or take a look at bereavement - at the women (and men) supporting each other through the loss of babies and children?

Or pregnancy, children's health, breast and bottle - at posters quietly dispensing excellent support and advice to struggling new parents unable to get what they need from professionals but finding it for free online?

But somehow I doubt you'd find quite so much to laugh at there - and it might stray perilously close to real journalism.

[theyoungvisiter]

[re-inserts sense of humour chip]

[HerBeatitude]

Is anyone really surprised by the fact that someone in the Telegraph thinks women should be cleaning if in doubt?

[theyoungvisiter]

I am surprised that they're apparently so contemptuous of yummy mummies in the home counties.

It's the Telegraph ffs, not the Socialist Worker.

[GrendelsMum]

Yes, I agree with YoungVisiter - I would have thought that the Telegraph Online was all for yummy mummies in the home counties. Is the Telegraph Online actually read predominantly by mysoginist men? (This is intended as a genuine question, btw) I had imagined that it was intended for people like my in-laws, well-off retired people in the home counties, who are not noticeably outraged to have a daughter-in-law such as myself who is pretty universally competent round the house and also has a prestigious job.

[WilfSell]

I think we need the Official MN Telegraph reader Moondog perspective on this issue.

I imagine she will take kindly to being characterised as a lazy stay-at-home, brainless fool who never gets anything done