"perfectstorm you've assumed gaelicsheep is a man because she's dared to stand up for a man. I'm pretty sure gaelicsheep is a woman. You're prejudging gaelic sheep and you're prejudging the OP's man."
No, it was the "who'd be a man!" comment. (Standing up for A man, singular, wouldn't annoy me.) If a woman said it, IMO that's even dafter. DH wanted our child to be a boy because he says men have easier lives, on the whole. Stats tend to bear that out - though not, as I said, in family law as a rule.
Gaelic if YOU do a search you'll see I've posted on a thread about "do women ever lie about DV?" saying yes, of course some do, as they secure legal advantage by it, and while there's no way to stop that given you have to protect genuine victims, you can't assume every woman claiming it has her children's best interests at heart. I am well aware some human beings are vile, and gender doesn't alter that basic fact. It does not mean all men are poor, piteous creatures bullied and abused by women - the facts tend to bear the other way, on average, but averages don't apply to individuals.
Interesting that some women leap on any objections to a blanket sympathy for all men as in some way "typical" for Mumsnet. I would hope for better for women, from other women, so yes, I assumed such sexist rubbish came from a man - just as I tend to assume the vitriolic anti-men posts are from women. My bad. 