For all who want GF banned from MN - so does she!!

[mummygow]

As you are all prob aware I follow the Gf routine and am also on her website and this was posted for us to see.

Dear Members,

In response to your emails regarding the statement in The Times Newspaper on 9th May 2006. We would like to confirm that neither Gina or her lawyers have put pressure on Mumsnet regarding the criticism that her methods receive on their forums. Gina was forced to seek legal
advice regarding other very serious issues with Mumsnet, and we will in the near future make a public statement as to her reasons for this. It would appear that some Mumsnet members are demanding a ban of the
Gina Ford name on the site. Gina herself would welcome this, as her forthcoming statement will confirm, she has for very valid reasons, no wish to be associated with the Mumsnet site.

Yes beety the dingdong was with ginababe. The thread has long gone though.

I'm fairly sure that the poster on the big gina thread who claimed to be gina used the username ginababe. I was fortunate???? enough to see the whole thread develop and it wasn't very pretty but probably makes this thread a little more believable IYKWIM:)

what happened exactly?

MP - I really don't think it is wise to drag it all up at this time, but suffice to say it was more emotional than logical in the way it developed.

i printed a copy of it off as I had loads of netters in my field. That was nearly two years ago.

yes
i was on it

fodn it hard to belive tbh the poster wasnt lucid enought to eb gina

Cod - MN did confirm that it was her though, did they not?

was just on the contented little baby website, love the feathers.
Gina Ford bears a stricking resemblance to someone and I cant quite put my finger on it.
Beautiful smile...

Ah, I have been nobly resisting pointing this out, but since it's been brought up already, does anyone else remember the posts that have now been withdrawn in that famous thread? Because I do, and to say there was a lot of swearing would be to understate things somewhat... interesting. The word hypocrisy would never pass my lips though, of course.

(beety, yes, it was confirmed)

Ah I have found all the details in the archives

bloody hell

this is really weird

how did you find them MP

.............O

I remember that thread, I got to it about third or fourth poster as you lot were on your summer jolly.

I thought the Ginababe poster had been at the pub it wasn't terribley coherent, allegedly

I feel a bit mean letting people know

Poor old Gina

There's a discussion in \link{http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:sp5mlYfYWRsJ:mumsnet.com/Talk%3Ftopicid%3D1375%26threadid%3D33582%26stamp%3D040823205256+ginababe+site:mumsnet.com&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=4\Google's cache}

Can you picture the court room scene - MN defence counsel stands up and says 'Ms ford does exhibit 25 look familiar to you? Can you confirm that you are posting on this thread as Ginababe?...'

We had some neighbours down the street w/a daughter called Gina. She always rubbed me the wrong way. Ever since, that name makes me bristle.

Soapbox - I am looking forward to the scene where the jury are made to listen to the whole 'swearing' thread read out, as the prosecution's evidence of why MN isn't fit to be seen on!

Now ,of course hypothetically, if my scene and Blu's scene are sequential, then Ms Ford is going to look a tad hypocritical. Her posting on that thread was not, shall we say, fit for the ears of sensitive folks:)

She seemed to think that she was GF on this post:

'A bad reaction to tomatoes is one of the foods that keeps coming up in the food diary's that parents send me. I am not sure whether it is a true allergy or just a reaction when given too early to some babies. I believe that it is a food tha parents should introduce with caution.'

The pathetic pedant in me wants to mention the unnecessary apostrophe, but I will refrain.

That was what I was trying to say further down soapbox, but I was obviously too subtle for my own good!

Dior, I don't think there's any doubt that it was her, I really don't.

Tamum

I wonder if Ms Ford has fully disclosed her previous postings on this site to her lawyers:)

:o