Sorry for any offence caused

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I apologise to fellow mumsnetters if my post have offended anyone, That was not my intention

Oh, and for the record, I didnt complain either. But I don't blame whoever did. Sorry.

neither do i!

for the record, no issue whatsoever with the vibrators discussion, just the subsequent turn of the conversation.

but while we're talking about this, i have complained (and would do so again) about comments i have found deeply offensive, specifically racist ones. mercifully, very rare.

It saddens me that there arent very many 'obvious' men who post on mumsnet, WHY WHY WHY do they have to be the ones encouraging the sex/flirting conversations? Is it really true that its all they b**y think about?

glad i'm not the only one who has noticed this!

bring back tom! and yes, why don't more non-flirting men join in?

I didn't complain - I thought about it (because nobody was flirting with me!)
As for participating on threads which have a sex theme - I've never started any, I've just continued the existing discussions. Is it wrong to have an opinion or to ask questions about women's viewpoints on various issues?
As for "don't we think about anything else" - give me 24 hours and I'll let you know if anything else springs to mind.

oh for goodness sake! that wasnt flirting it was a piss take any one in doubt go into any chat room after 10pm on a friday night.
think this has beent aken out of preportion and for the record i think women can think as much about sex as men do. this could quickly turn into a blaming simonhoward thread ..why because he is male - how sexest

Very comical that this is still going on. Surely enough people have not been offended for this to be put down to a difference of opinion. Still do not see what all the fuss was about, I had heard to very wary because of narrow minded people on here that can turn something that in this case was merely harmless fun, into something that it is not. I don't think I will bother coming here again, I am sure they will take offence to anything any one of these people say in the future, and no longer wish to be part of this.
I have been friends with breeze for sometime and some of the comments have annoyed me.
Maybe somewhere I will find a fun website.
Thanks for all the great advice I have received from most of you in the past.

Custardo, totally agree, I do not like sexist comments, perhaps we should complain.

My goodbye comment

I didn't read the thread initially only after I caught sight of Carrie's warning. I just thought it was a bit of banter. I did complain though but only to Breeze personally, told her she should have been ashamed of herself for having a bit of fun and getting told off to boot! (Would do a grinning face but am so technically stupid I can't work out how to do it.)

Well. I have to admit,when I post on threads I imagine I am addressing my comments to other women. When I see a man on a thread I do feel the dynamic changes somewhat. I would never want men to feel unable to post on this site, but I would hope that they would be sensitive enough to realise that this is foremostly a forum for women. The flirting thread was rather juvenille, butitwasn'tcensored,theappropriatnessofthethreadinthecontextof Mumsnet was all that was questioned.

Obviously men and women are different, and thank goodness for those differences,none of us would be mothers without them. I remenber my mother trying to go to a radical feminist meeting with my father, he wasn't allowed in. My father was extremely offended as he considered himself a rad fem(?)

Myspacebardoesn'tbloodywork,soyouwouldn'tbelievethehassleIhavebeenthroughtopostthis....GRRRRR

Only been posting on mumsnet for a few months but I find it a really interesting, funny, useful, enlightening site.

I didn't find the thread offensive in the slighest just not of any interest and a bit 'cliquey'.

I agree that people should just ignore what they find irrelevant. As long as you're not insulting anyone I don't see the harm.

I think I'll go back to the yurt!

I just thought the thread was a bit of banter that had gotten a bit out of control, not that I was offended, the only thing that offended me was the use of the "f" word although I didn't see fit to complain, just figured I would leave the thread alone. Would agree that the bickering has got a bit out of control lately and certainly isn't the Mumsnet I joined, just hope things calm down again.

Yeah, peace, dudes.

Katierocket, what you said about it being a bit 'cliquey', well thats how I feel when I have stopped myself from posting on other threads with more 'serious' discussions. The 'cliquey' has not been the women and man on her being told off, rather the ones being disapproving!

There are a number of women on here that I find their opinions, and they have one about everything (!), to be quite scary, its like a fight to the death. Also they seem to spend their entire lives on Mumsnet, do they actually have children! I'm sorry but thats just how I feel.

In the past I have wanted to discuss something very important to me, but I could not face the replies I would receive, I recently wrote something in reply to a thread and thought about trying to discuss it again on a new thread, but after having my fears comfirmed by reading this threads and another few which have gone mad over the past couple days I'm afraid I currently cannot.

If the Mumsnet team are hoping for extra visitors and users over the next couple of weeks with their publicity, maybe they should look at some of the other more 'serious' threads, what I have read of those they are just as hurtful as what this one was linked to.

Sorry about bad grammer and spelling, but I have been ranting!

oo-er fairy, you've got me like Marvin the paranoid android now. Do I need to get a life? I tend to post on lots of threads at once because I'm in the mood. Then I get busy and go away for a while.

Drolie I can assure you I aimed nothing at you, you have warmed me through on another thread!

Oh phew!

Droile, I'm as paranoid as you, I'm sitting here thinking, it's me, I'm here all the time, cringe, cringe, yes I do have children I just like to escape a couple of times a day and then usually again in the evening, is there is clinic for Mumsnet addiction?

If there is, I need it. I came on here when DS went to bed just to check a couple of threads, then I was going to do some work. I haven't struck a bat and I can't believe I'm still here.

Changed my chat name for this posting.

I think this thread has given newies the wrong idea, not the content of the thread, but the pathetic attempt to end it.

I view this as a bit of fun, and totally agree with all the comments about some members trying to push their views down our throat. (Before I get corrected I know that wasn't a quote).

I also strongly dislike when people put, don't see why you have written that, people write what they believe and if they are worried that someone is going to argue their point everytime, they will be put off by it.

I do not see how anyone can be offended by this really, probably the same people who look on office practical jokes as childish, nothing wrong in having a laugh IMHO, especially with what is going on in the world right now, does it have to be all doom and gloom.

There have been much worse threads, for example "celebrities (or something) that you could easily punch in the face", can see how this didn't offend anyone, promoting violence, no I am sure this was pure harmless fun, as was this thread.

Ok if you dot like it, do not read it, and certainly do not complain. Is it a case that some of the people that have been on here a long time think their opinion means more than someones elses. I hope not

Ks, I used to agree with you, but this thread proves that you can't do any thread, not even for a laugh.