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

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no, everything in your first para could be true. schmauskin herself linked to the kate charman/durr story and said it was her.

it's a bigger leap to make sarah chalmers, who writes about cat belly buttons, the same person.

not ruling it out, just saying.

Isn't it Chalmers though? As in Judith Chalmers? It's a great thrill when you are "on to someone" on MN! There's such a collective memory on here - God help anyone who thinks their posts on here are the equivalent of writing on sand when the tide's coming in.

She's priding herself on not fitting in isn't she?. She's so emo.

ALFA I hope that wee lad in the picture isn't "Blossom".

ah well there you go, someone else entirely. those look like real twins to me.

Just the title of the article would make me want to have a look at MN, so maybe it's all good publicity (though I am apparently the target demographic of a 30 something grad with smug/patronising/vicious tendencies)

Judith Chalmers has a son and a daughter - Emma and Mark so not sure there's a link there.

So - is Schmauskin really Kate Durr/Charman - and she introduced Sarah Chalmers to MN - and she then didn't like it.........

what? where are you getting this link from?

dunno really - I'm just bored and picking up on other people's suggestions

someone else mentioned Judith Chalmers - I don't think there's a link.

Shineon said she remembered this woman as the poster tracked down (by someone else) to be Smchauskin -and then it's all kind of rumbled on from there.

But she did say she'd been introduced by a friend.... Chalmers says a friend introduced her, she's a journalist (obviously) Schmauskin - I think we can fairly safely assume is indeed a TV presenter - so perhaps they're got to know each other through "media'y'" type work and Schmauskin introduced Chalmers??

maybe... it's just that there isn't a whit of evidence that's all.

And got the hump on her behalf? Maybe.

"maybe... it's just that there isn't a whit of evidence that's all. "

Am I bovvered???

lol.

I was kind of joking about the Judith Chalmers connection - but then again - isn't her son called Mark DURRden something or other?!

lol it's Mark Durden-Smith (his fathers surname}

Ok, I agree that everyone is entitled to their opinion - however.... if we cannot discuss nappies, feeding, names etc on a parenting site where should we discuss them? I am honestly confused, what would she like to see discussed on a parenting site if not elements of parenting?

For the record...To the journo in question, if the "who stole my milk" thread was yours, well, firstly, it was me (along with many others) and secondly, what on earth are you doing discussing such dull crap as the milk you feed your child? You can't start your own thread and then call us bores for doing the same thing can you?

Very odd, but I do agree that a war with DM will be far more interesting than a love affair! [sharpens talons]

I have another theory (I'm still bored - waiting for my cows and sheep to finish eating on Facebook).

This journalist has another journalist friend that post(ed?) on MN, the latter friend used MN for some of her work and got a bit of a pasting a little while ago, obviously said journalist coudn't really have a swing back at MN herself, too obvious so gets friend to join and have a swing at us (see told you I was bored )

I have to agree with something someone else mentioned a while back: mumsnet tends to reflect ourselves. So if we're in a good mood, everyone one mumsnet seem to be cracking hilarious jokes. Then you're a bit down, you log on to find a load of miserable posts, or aggressive people. I really believe this. I think the writer of the article logged on and was confronted with herself...I takes one to know one and all that...

I have another theory on who it is - but it's very very vague and I'm still working on evidence.

It's someone that joined just before the DM thing started, seems to say very little about themselves, but posted very prolifically when they first arrived - got "around" the boards they did....

Only "link" so far is that one particular word in the article in the OP on here has only been used once on MN all year

nope - not them - have a DD - but wrong age >

I clicked on the link she put to her actor husband on heatbeat, coz I thought it was going to be that fit one.

Ugh, that part about the "big business" of buying and selling poor women's eggs like commodities in America...but thats for another thread .

my word!! who stuck that rod up her arse??

i have left a nice MN-loving comment so if you look at the article tomorrow it will have ei, liverpool under it

i, myself, LOVE the they add colour and punctuation to the threads

Ah, the other thread is more where I should be.

Weird. I have no idea why that post from me has appeared on this thread. Crap article though. I'm not sure why one would expect posts on a board called "Mumsnet" not to be mainly about children. I don't know why she thinks that Mumsnet is riddled with acronyms. Most of those used are pretty standard to the internet, are there really nine pages of guidance? Seem unlikely to me, but then I don't think I've ever looked at it. Perhaps she's just rather slow/unintelligent? The Mail sure does publish total drivel.

"There really are women who spend hours having online conversations about....."

So, she doesn't spend hours tweeting, facebooking or any other kind of drivelling then??

No-one says fecking babydancing on here.