SW London May 15th meet up - this is the thread you want

[fisil]

The meetup will be on 15th May at zizzi

Table is booked in CountessDracula's name for 7:30 (however only those with wonderful partners or angel children will make it that early - so come for 8 or whenever!).

I will update the list I have at home when I get in from work (assuming internet connection is restored at home!) and let you know who I have for certain on the list.

Very very very excited.

WK - are you having a bad day?

you know what? i don't feel comfortable going along now. fisil, please take me off the list. now i feel more uncomfortable with the prospect that people i'll be meeting share these hostile views than the fact that it won't be an all female event.

oliveoil - I'm not having a bad day (and I haven't got PMT) and I'm not trying to have a go at anyone personally, I'm just voicing my opinion. I just think that men should be a bit more welcome on here than they sometimes seem and so naturally I object when it looks like someone's being singled out just for the fact that they're a man. If it becomes mumsnet policy that men aren't welcome here, fair enough but it isn't as yet.

sq - I definitely won't be going if it makes you feel any better.

HANG ON BK! SQ I mean

What hostile views? No one is being hostile to you are they? We are all allowed to disagree with each other on mumsnet in a grown up way - please don't flounce off I was really looking forward to meeting you

sorry, cd, but i expressed some concerns quite politely and reasonably, i thought. these concerns have been rubbished, and i have been called a sexist. ok, it's free speech here, but i really feel like i'll be meeting a bunch of people who think i'm some kind of weirdo, paranoid, sexist now. sorry but there it is. i was looking forward to meeting you and a number of other people too - but it seems i have caused a problem so think it is better if i bow (rather than flounce) out now.

I think it's very hard to read any intonation into someone else's postings. I am sure PPh didn't mean to offend, she isn't exactly known for it. Hopefully she was just asking if JMG1 would feel uncomfortable, and has been misunderstood. There isn't any need for people to fall out over it is there?

However, having said that, I do think that it is a shame that men don't tend to be made welcome as much as women. I know there have been some horrors on here, but imo I don't think JMG counts as one of those. This is a site for parents after all.

I think this entire thing is absolutely and utterly ridiculous, lets all go and have fun and sod all this debate.

This is such a shame - I've just got to this thread and, in the spirit of the early posts (everyone being welcome etc) was about to ask if I could come along too. Not a regular poster, but was excited at the prospect of a lighthearted meet up with other mumsnetters. Until the later threads it hadn't even occurred to me that it might be considered odd for jmg1 to go - I've seen him banter on other threads and considered him just another mumsnetter. Let's face it, any meet up of 20 or so people arranged via the internet has the risk of bringing with it some oddities - not just limited to the male species. Have to day I think it was great that jmg even contemplated going - even if he'd had any ulterior motives he'd have been outnumbered 20-1!

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cd, as for hostile views - this is also being discussed on another thread here

I have put a more rational pov on there too SQ.

always a bad idea to post in haste and then rush of to sainsburys and on the school run I think.

I don't have any problem with men on mumsnet (obviously!). I'm just not sure their place is on a girls night out (which basically is what this is, lets face it). Which I don't think it is the same as parents meeting up with children in a park looking for child-related adult company. Or at least I hope it isn't going to be!
I just wondered why on earth JMG would be interested in coming as every man I know would rather cut of his.... right arm than spend an evening that way. Mind you I don't know many men who are so good at flouncing off in a huff - you must have learnt that from mumsnet, jmg1
I did rather assume that you were either looking for excessive attention, or a shag, either of which would be pretty dull for most of us, but if that isn't the case (and I didn't know that others had met you before and can vouch for you) then come along! Still don't know why you'd WANT to, though...

SQ/BK I wish you would come Please do.
Only just arrived at this thread and was looking forward to it. There is no need for all this.

That was not in reply to you PPH!

i'm really sorry, i don't like it when people "flounce" off - and now i'm doing it i'm really not a prima donna, honest

i think pph's and my original comments have been blown up out of all proportion and some of these responses are downright nasty.

Right so there we are.

jmg - can you reconcile yourself to what pph was saying? Can you find it in your heart to come along now?

SQ can you take a few deep breaths and think again? No-one thinks you are a weirdo, paranoid sexist.

Can we not all be friends?

(Castle Dracula Mediation Services - for all your little tiffs)

bk please come, you are one of the people I'm travelling up from the sticks to meet! and wobblyknicks' knickers are wobbling ooop north so it is silly not to come.

ahem, all of you who want a slightly out-of-proportion fight, I'm back now, lay off her serene majesty please.

right then guys!

I thought I had done well getting ks to come

Bloosy hell. take a chill pill al of you and lets forget this/

Pph has been said she posted in haste and thats fine, but I do see her point hat a lot of us are coming up to have a great time at personal expense and hassle - invloving reluctsant dhs and so we need some lee way here!

People not comingmay like to bear in mind that we are travelling for 2 hours to meet a group of people we dont know and thta man may be there MAY ( not WILL ) have changed the atmosphere of the meet up.

I am hoping to flog some cookware

oh ks, i can't take responsibility for you not coming! i will be hounded off mumsnet, pursued by a raging mob holding flaming torches... or something...

ok, i'm sorry for flouncing off

i will be there.

jmg1?

at "squirrel instant tiff disperser"

OK

where am I going to and at what time and ewhere am I parking the tractor?

Please some one take me in hand