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

857 replies

mummygow · 11/05/2006 18:41

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.

OP posts:
morningpaper · 11/05/2006 22:03

So ... WAS that the "official statement" or does anyone have a copy of that? Or have you requested it by email yet?

chapsmum · 11/05/2006 22:03

HAve decided to write a letter to the editor of the independant ( and the daily mail cuase Gina seems to have link to theire article on her website)
How can you write a book called good mother bad mother when you have just discarded the opinion of a vast number of mumsnetters....they must be the bad mothers she is talking about.Angry

morningpaper · 11/05/2006 22:03

Mind you it IS very convenient that all this rumpus occurs during the week of her Book Launch

snafu · 11/05/2006 22:04

Is she...perhaps...hunkersnafumunker?

Shock
HunKeRMunKeR · 11/05/2006 22:04

So swearing makes one a bad mother then?

Oh shite.

Snafu...really?! Grin

chapsmum · 11/05/2006 22:04

and thanks to those of you who read my psot was starting to thng my ramblings didnt make any sence!

GamelanCarrier · 11/05/2006 22:04

all three expat
in fact I like to bf both my children so that I can swear at them, very quietly, in their ear
I find it increases the bond between us

SoupDragon · 11/05/2006 22:04

Will the Bad Mothers Club site get a slapped writ too? They have a section called "F@@k S@@t B@@@@cks"

HunKeRMunKeR · 11/05/2006 22:05

Sorry, Chapsmum - keep meaning to post to say, yes, I agree with you, and also with making this madness more public.

soapbox · 11/05/2006 22:05

Hmmmm!

Are you all sure that this is not just a name changer trying to get a laugh?

I've met some strange lawyerish folks in my time, but this would be taking 'strange' to a new level I believe!

Tutter · 11/05/2006 22:06

lol snafu at soapytitwank

enjoy Grin

bum! (said in naughty schoolgirl tones)

beansprout · 11/05/2006 22:06

Good mums, f*cking awful MNers. Grin

HunKeRMunKeR · 11/05/2006 22:06

Hmm, MP, yes.

Any publicity is good publicity and all that.

But I'd rather have flagging sales than this!

soapbox · 11/05/2006 22:07

Excuse me titter - but do not use my chatname in the same sentence as swear words or I will be having words with my lawyersGrin

morningpaper · 11/05/2006 22:07

beansprout Grin

kiskidee · 11/05/2006 22:08

your post was appreciated by me to chapsmum.

Blackduck · 11/05/2006 22:08

this is just too bizarre....

tamum · 11/05/2006 22:08

Oh god, I just nearly fell off my chair laughing at the post about breastfeeding your children so you can swear gently in their ears (is that you, harpsi?)

arfy · 11/05/2006 22:08

this is madness, madness

Please tell me it's not happening....

Anyway, herewith 3 quotes from the Daily Mail:

"I see women blaming and punishing themselves — and each other — for not being perfect".

"It doesn't help that parenting is one of the subjects on which strangers feel at liberty to offer an opinion".

"The same goes for mothers.

Sometimes my advice to them seems pretty flippant: shave your legs and paint your toenails, I tell them.

And I mean it!

Feel good about yourself. Take care of yourself. Ask for help. Tell the truth about how you feel to your friends. Don't, please, kill yourself trying to be perfect."

I'm going to take all that advice and swear like a trooper when I feel like it

GamelanCarrier · 11/05/2006 22:08

I don't think she's a lawyer
she's a website minion

arfy · 11/05/2006 22:09

in the light of the 3rd quote, doesn't the toenail thread redeem us in any way?

plummymummy · 11/05/2006 22:09

I would like a child who shows tolerance, acceptance and sleeps through the night. Is that greedy (Oh alright I admit it, I'm insanely Envy of those who don't get woken up at 3am with a rendition of 'Old Macdonald Had A Farm')? However, I am under no illusion whatsoever that a childcare advisor is going to give me these things. I have to confess to never getting past the first page of that book by that author as I thought to myself what a load of shite (in a purely philistine way, you understand).

GamelanCarrier · 11/05/2006 22:09

(yes it's me tamum. tonight I am carrying a gamelan, for a change.)

snafu · 11/05/2006 22:10

Only if we paint them between the hours of 07.00 and 07.15 and have piece of toast and a glass of orange juice first, arfy.

expatinscotland · 11/05/2006 22:10

Do you think she's reading now?

Oh, dear! Shock

Or rather, oh FUCK.

Why can't it be Sharon Osborne instead? She probably wouldn't give a toss about the swearing and join in on one of the piss ups - I mean, meet ups.