Whats so bad about mumsnet?

[Trio]

Hello, i joined mumsnet about 18 months ago and since then i have become hooked! but dp thinks its crap, and i "need to get a life" i dont spend ALOT of time on here, maybe 2 - 3 hours a week, but he thinks that this place is just somewhere for women who havent got anything better to do to moan about anything how can he be so narrow minded? How come its acceptable for him to spend AGES looking at films/games/porn???? - hmmm, because that IS time well spent!

He's jealous of the time you spend. But he hasn't got a leg to stand on has he if he is looking at porn. Mumsnet is pro family full of help and support, porn just the opposite.

You spend 2-3 hours a week on here and he is moaning.

Hmmmmmmm alot of people spend 2-3 hours or more a day on here.

I'm on alot more than that. But the computer will have to go upstairs when we get or new suite,so that'll cut down my time.

He's a bit envious that you enjoy the "company" of other people, chatting, advising etc etc. Films, sport and porn aren't very interactive (well, porn might be, a bit, ahem ) but you see what I mean. Dh is fine but does wonder what we all talk about.

It's always been like this. Men put down groups of women but at the same time, feel ever so slightly threatened.

Dh will now routinely suggested that I ask you lot for advice on a whole range of things. That's pretty awesome as he has not got anywhere where he can go for the same.

I think I spend more than 3 hours a DAY on here during the week.

I think he was probably just spoiling for a fight!

I agree I think they feel threatened in some ways. My DH never ever complained if I spent all day reading a book, watching a movie etc. But from the first day I've been on MS is all sarcastic ans suspicious. He doesn't mind but he points it out everytime.
maybe they're jealous.

think my dh is quite of it and wishes there was some male equivalent. He loves having a sly look at some of the thread titles and is quite impressed at the selection on offer.

You've taken the right step Trio in telling us about this. My dh also moans at me and I blab on about hwo these days we don't have extended family, blah blah and I can't get out of the house to talk to grown ups very often and how women like sharing ideas and advice.

When he does something annoying I say to him, 'Right I'm telling Mumsnet' and it can act as a deterrent.

Just you wait ... soon he will be saying, "Can you ask Mumsnet about this?" ..... the first time my DH did that I nearly fell off my chair

DH generally just thinks forums are sad and nerdy...he is out of touch . Also whenever he has peered over my shoulder the only threads he notices are the ones that are a bit gossip magazine sounding or pointless ( I won't give examples!). He leaves me to it pretty much, with the occassional teasing about being addicted, especially when I start to say "someone on mumsnet said..."

What's so bad about mumsnet?

We might all tell you to divorce him.

Internet forums are highly addictive once you get started on one. DS's dad is hooked on his football one so he doesn't have a problem with MN.

give him MorningPapers article to read so he can realise how influential and active MNetters are

I admit it does sound bad when I say to the kids, 'I'm off to meet someone I met in an internet chatroom'.

Oh, no, spidermama, we're not people you met that way - we're your imaginary friends.

(I was slightly twitchy when a blanket sew-up was happening in my living room when MIL visited. I just claimed they were local knitters that I knew, though.)

Yes - my DH is rather sceptical about MN. Doesn't really believe in it, and gets a bit annoyed at the amount of time I can spend on it. This from a man who checks his email on his mobile phone at the dinner table - pot/kettle/etc.

Dh plays online games and met most of his RL friends through it, so I am on a fairly even ground with him

We do have to battle for the computer... hence our new "laptop fund"

tell him your knocking mn on the head and intead your going to wank over this

custardo, i haven't gone to your link as scared it may be porn & i'm at work.
i only discovered mn 2 weeks ago & am hooked. I very occasionally tell my dh about funny threads (eg the one about the woman who refused to give someone else's kid a third choice of meal, and the shaving one last week) but i don't tell him too much as i want him to believe i spend every day at work doing important grown up things when in fact i'm a lazy cow who only goes to work for the biscuits and gossip.

Well thanks ladies! i think mumsnet is great (obviously) and i might tell him to get his butt on the mens area here so he can see for himself, MEN!!!grrr

My dh was the same when I first started Mumsnetting. Three and a half years later and he's realised he's wasting his breath.

Definitely jealous.
I never think MN is a waste of time.We are talking not dribbling over some tart's nether regions or blowing someone away in a video game.

Arse.

YES exactly! this doesnt cost me anything unlike HIS hobbies!! hmm lets work out how much is spent on football, xbox, playstation, fage, lager/beer etc shall i go on?.... hmmm dont think i need to!

Lol - fags rather!