I HATE MUMSNET: Why one mum thinks the parenting website is smug, patronising and vicious

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V interesting article MP.

please - can someone tell me why you think this is the guy from Heartbea's wife? Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick? His wife is not called Sarah Chalmers or Sarah anything.

Beanie - they are not the same person. This is annoying isn't it? People getting the wrong end of the stick because they haven't read the whole thread.

That Schmauskin lady (the actress married to Jason Durr) is the one whose thread about a certain brand of formula was pulled because lots of people had reported it as suspected marketing.

Then she started another one saying "why was my thread pulled?" and got nothing but kindness and understanding and patient explanations on it. I've just read through it and everyone was extremely gracious to her. But she was completely OTT and flounced then came back and said "don't accuse me of flouncing!" - she came across as a few sandwiches short of a picnic, tbh. She couldn't even seem to understand why it might have been pulled.

But, that is not the same person who wrote the piece in The Daily Mail.

Hth.

MP, My comment about third-sector orgs mostly not being able to compete with private sector is based on some work I used to do with a govt-funded third-sector org supporting local and regional community groups. All the govt support was increasingly based on persuading these groups to bid for service-delivery contracts (as European and regeneration funding ran dry), and the groups were mostly baffled and unresponsive. My lasting impression was that govt knew full well that such groups could not compete and that govt funding of 'capacity-building' projects was in effect just naked propaganda for the illusory 'social capital' benefits of cutting state services.

It has given me a lasting scepticism about 'socal enterprise'.

cool - I thought I was going mad!

What does the expression 'every prison inmate is innocent' mean?

I suppose it means that in her eyes she did nothing wrong... There must have been some reason why she had such a negative experience on here so she must have trodden on someone's toes.

I find it weird that she herself has teins and yet in the article she wrote about different buggies and prams she says of a double buggy:

"These are the double buggies favoured by older parents who left procreation so late that they've had to pop out two nippers in quick succession to beat the clock."

what a bitch.

BTW ladies have you seen we've gone totally transatlantic: CNN

Fantastic! Much better article

Lol at elitist.
They let me ffs.

Huffy, huffy, huffy.

Thanks, rockbird. That must be it.

that would be 'miscarriages of justice'

Argh do I comment on my own comment I have some knobhead called Dom answering me back and I need to sort him!

Best bit in CNN article:
"Brown's session last month ended in embarrassing headlines when papers picked up on his apparent failure to reveal, when asked repeatedly, his favorite cookie -- a seemingly frivolous inquiry that the media in tea-drinking Britain infused with weighty reflections on spin and personality."

cos it is clearly all to do with the importance of tea in British culture, no? I mean, it might be.

Ha, ha ha! The Daily Mail obviously wants to get in first on Mumsnet bashing - but as they're rather hot on Mum bashing in general I'm not really suprised.

They're probably narked about the fact that other papers reference the site a lot. Who cares what the DM and this journalist thinks anyway, I couldn't give two hoots

Great article on CNN. Good quotes from Justine.

Is Rosie Campbell a MNetter?

That CNN article was spot on.

Then again, I suppose the writer Barry Nieild did not have an axe to grind nor was he terminally wedded to lazy journalism and unthinking stereotypes about what a parenting site frequented by mothers would be about.

Oh good Dom seems to have disappeared and my rating has gone up. I assume that's all your doing. Thankyou.

If i go on a site that the Daily mail hates, I must be doing something right . Silly cow.

CNN article is good. But are women, as Rosie Campbell says, really "less interested in politics" and "less likely to be watching news programmes"?

Certainly not like this in our house. I have to fight to watch Newsnight. (Not literally of course, but you know what I mean.)

I posted a comment on the DM article about an hour ago but it hasn't appeared. It was quite short and I didn't swear! Was it ignored because I clicked on the 'don't send me any marketing emails' bit on the registration page? (I've never tried posting a comment to a DM article before.)

Not in our house either Zeph.

Don't think so - I ticked that box too. What did your post say?

Rosie Campbell has been popping up to comment on MN quite a lot in the past couple of weeks - she was on Woman's Hour with Justine I think.