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

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Oh that pram article! How funny!

"I could not help wondering where they got the time to share such banality."

WTF does she think a cupboard under the stairs is for? I shove my DC's in there (with some fruit shoots and quavers, natch) and MN all day.

None of us even use the term BD!

its a great article.

9 pages of acronyms

here's another one to add to it DFOD (do fuckoff dear)

"she [...] over-analyses every single parenting action she takes." C'mon, you know this rings true. Some other bits as well.

I'm sure there are plenty of middle class, smug, over analysing mums on here but I honestly don't see them as the majority. Perhaps those ones are just the more memorable.

Oooh I'd take that as a compliment actually - 'warning bells sounding to anyone seeking to enter a debate with the MNers'

"Cliquey and elitist"? Jolly good. Would hate to think we were letting DM journalists in!

She's got the hump about something, that's for sure...do you think it was her who wrote the blog about living with her sister as a polyamorist and got pissed off that we didn't believe her?

Glad to know I'm a perfectionist over-achiever.
Had always thought I was MNing because I was just a bit anxious and alone!

I haven't Smugly Smirked as much for a long time as when I read that drivel. Not famed for their research these DM journos then?

Has 'Off you piss' been anacronym-ised yet?

Who ripped her knitting?

She does realise that there are lots and lots of people on here, right? And that it's not just 3 people posting the same thing.... You can always find someone to answer whatever question you ask, which is more than I can say for RL!

"In the interests of research" - I bet she loved it really and she's writing that because she can't admit it in RL not being middle-class enough.

[aside]NoBiggy I do actually! Would you like it? 'Cos my non-existent little Tarquin didn't and that's why he won't eat it.

What a bunch of arse.

Are we at war with the DM now? I hope so. It's certainly an improvement on the whole "This Week On Mumsnet" situation.

It's a shame she didn't namecheck PaulDacresCrackWhore when she was criticising our nicknames.

ha ha how hilarious
her wisdom knows no bounds

Oh her?

" kiddy obsessed".... I should hope so, I'm responsible for the health and emotional wellbeing of 3 of them.

"Typical members are women in their 30s with university degrees."

really? I'd quite like to be either of those!

"I know people who won't make a decision on anything - not even what to cook their children for lunch - without first consulting Mumsnet."

so everyone...which newspaper should I read tomorrow?