So, us rotten lot....

[scarredpierced]

How many of us actually meet Shona's little sidekicks criteria?
She states that all of us on Mumsnet are in our 30s, living in London and have a degree. How many people here meet that criteria?
How many are popping prozac depressed at the shit life we now have with kids?
Damn that woman is nasty!

Brecon, she is a lemonsucking "journalist" who wrote about poor poor Amanda Holden being bullied by MN.

I am in my 40s, have 2 degrees, used to live in the Home Counties but now live in Australia. I hate Boden but am a bit of a lentil weaver (cloth nappies, co-sleeping, bf'ing as long as poss, preference for organic and fromscratch cooking/food)
Happy SAHM with 2 DSs and no pills (apart from vit/min/oil supplements).

Don't give much of a toss what anyone else does so long as it's a) legal and b) doesn't do any actual harm.

Hadn't heard of this woman but looked up her articles and her opinions are vile imo. Drugging children, smacking 14 year olds, wtf?

Had to tee hee at this comment under her article: "Hate mumsnet, full of opinionated, superior, breast feeding, communists."

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1724574-Does-anyone-else-FLIPPING-despise-this-women - here you are, thread about it. :)

Sorry, thread about Shona Sibary - the link is to a different article, not the one about Poor Amanda Holden.

Oh, and I am in my 30s, am doing a PhD, but don't live in London, am not depressed, only stressed trying to juggle being a single mum struggling financially and feeling like a PhD failure. Not interested in criticising boring, annoying DM people's parenting choices

I am a bit of a breastfeeding socialist though!

Does she not know that Prozac is soooo 90s! The world of SSRIs moves fast.

All the cool kids (and I assume the Boden clad London mothers of this hack's imagination) are popping Citalopram.

Was living in London but recently felt an urge to move to Hull, only to find estate agents over run by leopard-scarfed women with slightly askew haircuts.

Can't wait for the next Mumsnet census. Reckon Hull will be massively over-represented.

Sorry, I'm a bit fick, (well not really, 2 degrees and a postcard, hobnob loving, in 30's but not from London), but is this the response from the DM to the heavy criticism it received from MN about the Philpott cover? Because that's what it feels like to me.

I'm 23 a single mum and live in Glasgow. Complete opposites!

Yes, London (but only half British), Yes degree, no ADs, yes in 30s.
Didn't grow up in London, or England for that matter.

HOWEVER
(in seriousness)
Have interacted with so many different people from different walks of life and learnt so much from Mumsnet, that, if anything, it has the potential of bringing any stereotypical middle class Londoner out of her bubble.

Mumsnet has been an eye-opener both in terms of insights in to other people's lives as well as on a more personal level.

It can be a place of comfort, laughs companionship and support and I only wish I'd known about it when I was having a tough time a few years ago.

And we really aren't allowed to make bitchy remarks about her looks on here?
Pity.

MN is bluddy marvellous.

40s
Degree plus other qualifications
Midlands
No hobnobs
Bit of Boden
No Prozac

Love MN

I resent the implication that I iron my kid's clothes.

Oh and...

30s
Degree
Used to live in London
Boden hand me downs for the kids from the friend who introduced me to MN yonks ago (but none for me)
Sertraline

and for the record, why should it fucking matter if a mnetter does have a degree, live in north London, take prozac, and blah blah whatever other shite they want to spout... oh yeah, shop at Boden... Fuck the fuck off nob heads

I was 30s, with a degree, living in London when I first joined here.
Am now out of London but the other two still apply.

Loving motherhood, no Prozac, no hobnobs.

Degree: Check
30's :check
London : Nope
Chn : 3 lovely ones
Prozac : Nope
Hobnobs : Occasionally
Boden : What is that?
Wine : Red once a fortnight!

only just then-

Don't jump on me, but I actually do think she must have felt shocked and sad to have found a thread slagging her off. Not everyone can take the kind of gloves-off honesty (and lets face it sometimes bitchiness) that exists on an anonymous forum.

Unfortunately her article was written as a form of revenge and really she has ended up being hurtful herself.

For the record, 40s, living in Canada but I do have a degree! No prozac and love having children. Have no time can't be bothered to iron children's clothes, or my own for that matter. Oh, but I am a co-sleeping, extended breastfeeding type.

Also 40 something in Canada with a degree or two. Bf and bottle fed (would have bfed them all but dd born with no suck reflex - not sure that fits with her neat little stereotype.)

No Prozac. Or any other meds/ drugs.

Ironing? Wtaf? I have a husband to do that for me!

And they don't sell boden or hobnobs here. I don't think.

I can do a nice line in donuts though?

Who iron's kids clothes? Everyone I know has the sense to spend the time on something more worthwhile

30s, yes, 2 degrees, live in Germany, no pills :) Also only read the first page and no idea who Shona is - was assuming a hairy handed one til I got to the Daily Fail reference.

No pills

Younger than 30

Degree

Live in Scotland

Hobnobs are Nice but need dipped in something tea like

Hadn't even head of Boden until I started on MN

No kids but MN is helping to put me off/plan fertility