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

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night night

actually the only place i've had the 'I pity her kids' rubbish said of me was on timesonline AlphaMummy...

i was actually pleased, it meant i had definitely won the argument if someone had resorted to that kind of ad hominem stab.

I was Artlesschaos. I changed as I had "issues" with depression and posted on the mental health forum. Happy now?
Ok, no one obviously remembers the thread where a poster said on AIBU about feeling inadequate because her husband managed her 2 yr old better than her. There was LOADS of posters putting the proverbial boot in and confirming to her that yes, she was a rubbish parent.
Sorry, didn't want to go have to go into examples as I feel that what has gone is gone...over and finished.

that's kinda what i feel about any personal insults, tbh edgar. any time anyone's said anything remotely insulting or personal to me i've always let it stand so that people could make up their own minds. i really feel that self-moderation works brilliantly on here.

Obviously I'm in the minority here. But that's to be expected. It is MN afterall. I just assumed some people could see the journalist's point...in some ways. But hey, I used to post on Netmums. I'm clearly a boring, no-mates, un-cool saddo.

And the threads offering support and sympathy hugely outweight the negative ones. Maybe it's important to stay for the long haul. I don't know.

i really doubt that thread panned out the way you're suggesting, roysrolls. (btw LOVE your name.)

although having said that, the thing with social interaction of any sort is that you can't control how people take it. i've said things on here that were supposed to read as kindly or supportive or whatever and been absolutely gob-smacked to see that an OP on a downer has managed to make something negative out of it.

like that x-post, for example.

i can see the journo's point, in the sense that she came on here and didn't like it, but to hate it? it's ridiculous.

What a load of guff.

I cannot stand these talentless hacks who whore themselves out to the DM. 'Write me 1500 words of woman-hating shit and I'll bung you enough to pay your Ocado delivery this month'. SELL OUT.

I bet what she really hated is that pretty much anyone on MN can write more eloquently than she can.

Eff orf to Bounty.

of course she's paid for article,she's a journalist.dont quite understand all the consternation about the article,she is partially right

the enjoyable thing about mn is the robust riposte.that suits some not all.am glad it isnt all huggy huns

All the 'negative' responses on this thread are just playing into the journalists hands.

We surely must have better things to do on a Friday night ?

Am watching Have I got news for you and Mumsnet was mentioned again ( not in positive light - )

"woman-hating shit" oh go easy on hyperbole sister. it isnt that interesting or provocative. all the insults hurled back at her for daring to deride mn, do make some posters look like gushy mn sychophants who cannot tolerate any criticism

I am a journalist by trade, actually.

'Typical members are women in their 30s with university degrees. This is exactly the type of woman who wants a guidebook for parenting - a bar against which she can measure herself (and, no doubt, declare herself and DH top-of-the-class!).'

'This is exactly the type of woman...'...what? I'm sorry? I beg your pardon? Oh, yes, of course. Those tiresome educated women daring to discuss the issues that matter to them. Burn the witches!

This isn't journalism. She ought to be ashamed.

Fucking Femail. I will pour scorn on it until the day it goes out of print.

daily mail and journalism is an oxymoron.of course it isnt journalism it's daily mail,written in provocative house style. however mn and dm have a close working relationship as it is anyway.

What was Ian Hislop saying cap'nunderpants?

sm, 'she is partially right'. Well yeah, inasmuch as anyone would be partially right by picking a handful of poster names and calling them silly, saying there are some bitchy posts out of thousands, saying she can't believe some mums talk a lot about their cracked nipples.

Bland, bland, bland. So what. The only thing that is surprising is that someone can get work as a journalist for so many years by writing such dull and imaginative stuff.

champagesupernova - thread here about tonights Have I got news for you

Arse! I've been using MN for 7 years.Why did no one tell me that it was for University Educated middle class 30 somethings who wear Boden? And here's me a manual worker with only O Levels to my name and who buys her clothes in Charity shops.You've had me here under false pretenses.I'll get me coat.

Is this the sort of thing that Mumsnet were hoping would help them have a bit of clout in govt campaigns, when they agreed to the 'today on mumsnet' column?

Why the fuck shouldn't people talk trivia. When I talk to friends the conversation can switch from Nick Griffin on QT to potty training to what was on TV last night to Czechoslovakian filmakers (ok, that last one is pretty rare), going on Mumsnet is the same. I wouldn't want it to all be 'nappy chat', but then again sometimes you don't want to get involved in a heated discussion about politics.

It pisses me off that she completely ignores the huge amount of help and support that Mumsnetters have provided for each other in difficult times.

Oh look, mn has been in the news lots. Many people seem to be raving about it. I know, I could try to write something from an opposite point of view since I am a mum. Even though I am not a good journalist, it might be successful as this is such a current hot topic. Now, if only I could think of an interesting angle. Ah yes, I hate mn.

'Oh Gawd, don't go there- I practically missed Christmas last year in moldie threads...'

Yup BitOfFun, DH and I nearly fell out over it!

Fantastic - at last someone has exposed you nasty Mumsnet users for what you really are!! Don't you understand it's cruel, twisted women like you who isolate genuinely friendly mums.

Hope your fucking website gets shut down.

Hahahha. Jog on.