Any single women put off meeting a man from mumsnet threads?

[Angelfish2021]

Light hearted!!
I like to browse the relationship threads with a coffee when I have a spare 30 mins. Omg the men seem like absolute loosers (massive generalisation obviously) but it's texting other women, sexting other women, web cam girls, escort sites, affairs, sneaking around and gass lighting their partners/wives.
(there are some threads where women also behave as bad but the majority it's the men!)
Puts you off meeting men! Or is it just me?

@Nailgirl

It's taught me that most "decent" men aren't.

And that's RL too. My friends married for 20 years plus -3 kids. He is amazing husband ,father etc. err he doesn't work or childcare- he's a musiciain and contributes NOTHING not a bean to the house- he goes out DJing every night and does lots of cash in hand jobs and keeps the cash -"for going to see family back in SA" etc he can play the great dad 1 day a week or whatever -she thinks they have a great marriage - I don't. I couldn't do it. Another friend -he's a serial shagger but they have been together 30 years and now have granchildren etc -again she puts up with it as "he loves her really and will never leave her". I live in the bleak North north though and I have no chance of meeting anyone here.

You lived in the wrong era, William wallace would have kept you warm up north back in the day

Like Nailgirl too live in the bleak North and can confirm that past the mid thirties, there are few single decent men available. Most of them like to tell you how good looking they are (they will actually say this and no, they're not, it just means they have 2 eyes, a nose and a mouth) and they like to talk about themselves and how wonderful they are, in their opinion. There's a level of conceit and arrogance amongst very ordinary Scottish men, which when allied with a sense of entitlement and old fashioned sexism, is very unappealing.

No William Wallaces I'm afraid. Just a lot of short, slightly squat men who think they're God's gift if they are in the rare subset who have hair! A lot of men in the central belt are those urban types who don't like getting their feet wet. There's nice men in the Highlands and other rural areas but they won't travel so you literally have to go to their doorstep to meet them. Aberdeen has a level of grimness that you can only really understand once you have encountered it. Charm and/or conversation are virtually unknown amongst most single men. Those that have it turn into serial shaggers.

It males me admire all the more the decent men who married their girlfriends and who go out to work each day to support their families and who don't make a song and dance about it. Of course there are plenty of decent men - but very rarely are they to be found single and on dating sites - and where else can you meet them now we have been under some firm of restri tions for 9 months?

MN hasn’t put me off men. My own ex has!