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!

[HoobleDooble]

Just turned 40, live in Derbyshire, but do have a degree. Not on Prozac.

[JammySplodger]

Nice response Justine.

[MrsBucketxx]

ooops

[GoatsHaveStrangeEyes]

Not that I give a shit about what she thinks but no I do not fit into any of those categories.

In fact after having DD1 at 17 and coming from a family raised on benefits I didn't think I would fit in here at all.

But I luffs it so any MN bashers can fuck off.

[HelenMumsnet]

@habbibu

I don't think her looks are fair game, though. Plenty to criticise without doing that.

Yes. Please, folks: feel free to criticise opinions as robustly as you like but personal comments are against the site rules - and generally not on.

[TSSDNCOP]

Well annoyingly I had to go and look her up.

Tis her of the smacking, drugging and publicly humiliating of the husband fame.

Surely the dresses she's wearing are Jonnies finest?

Is Liz Moans in rehab on holiday? Is this why this woman's getting so many column inches?

[WitchOfEndor]

Thirties (for the next 2 months), degree and postgrad, live in Shropshire. We don't fit into a neat pigeonhole so they can label us.

[TSSDNCOP]

Her dogs look nice though

[CarpeVinum]

Good response from MNHQ.

I'm a bit startled at all the MN hate, people never used to exploit iVillage in the day a newspaper fillers, perhaps it is the longer term sucess of MN that gets up some noses?

Anyhow

I'm 46
Live in a tiny rurual corner of Italy not all that far from Milan
I left school with 4 O levels. And two of those are in Dom Sci and RE.

I did live in London once though. In the 80s. During my squatter era.

[MrsBucketxx]

her dogs, how did you find that?

[MaisyMooCow]

I have just started a new thread to Ms Sibary. She mentioned me in her article! Never heard of her before today!

[TSSDNCOP]

There's a photo of them in the farticle Mrs Bucket Black one and brown one.

[NorthernLurker]

I think it's rich of Sibary to complain that she was accused of exploiting her child in an article where she uses that child's sleeping habits as a peg for the whole argument and includes a picture of said child. Almost as ironic as her complaining about being on the receiving end of vitriol with errrrrrrr vitriol of her own.

I'm in my thirties, don't take prozac, don't send my youngest child to a school with a uniform, there is nothing organic in the house. However there is a shed load of Boden and I have a degree. Thank goodness I don't live in London.

[DontSHOUTTTTTT]

habibu

If you read the DM backwards does it make sense?

That is sooooooo funny

[Kneedeepindaisies]

I think I have a big girl crush on Justine right now

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Oh, thank god someone has started this thread.

I've not read this specific article but I've been having this bizarre ghostly experience every time MN gets mentioned in the press lately.

According to deeply embarrassing stats BOF dragged up for me, a couple of weeks ago I was one of the ten posters on MN who waffle on the most. Obviously this is because I have no life and am chained to my computer while I churn out my Thesis of Doom, but still.

I wouldn't swear to it but I reckon trills (who also doesn't have kids) probably comes up on there a fair bit too.

And yet they keep being deeply outraged we're all 'nasty mummies', cos you lot are meant to turn into saints once you procreate.

Anyhoo, I'm in my twenties, don't live in London, never have, have a degree. So there we are.

[magimedi]

Justine (it's a pink gin for you).

Old

South Coast

No degree

Gin rather than prozac.



I think this is a sort of 'silly season' , everyone has cabin fever & attacking MN is fashionable & easy for people with no original ideas who have pieces to write for sensationalist rags.

[MrsBucketxx]

oh yeah,

[tangledupinpoo]

Blimey, and she calls us poisonous?! Her writing is vicious. But worse than that, it's lazy.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Oh - I am depressed, though not currently medicating. Lucky me.

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

Blimey, and she calls us poisonous?! Her writing is vicious. But worse than that, it's lazy.

I love this.

This is what makes me love MN. The fact you're more bothered by her lack of writing style than anything else.

[BuntyCollocks]

30 this year, lived in London (but no longer), and have a degree.

[AdoraBell]

I'm way over 30's, no degree, no pills, happy with my DCs as much as you can be with pre-teens and live a looooooooong way from London.

[BuntyCollocks]

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