what's this PO stuff all about? I have just read some really vile stuff on here....

[Portofino]

Women presumably who don't have a certain sense of humour, or don't agree with certain (long standing) posters being described as beige admin workers who nag their ugly husbands, who were friendless at school, wear cheap clothes, have no fun in their sad little joyless lives etc etc Literally paragraphs and paragraphs of nastiness.

This is some of the most vile and misogynistic stuff I have ever read on MN from other women. These kind of comments normally come from trolls and MRA invasions. Is this really what MN has become? Does everyone think that this sort of shit should stand? What happened to the fucking sisterhood?

I am astounded to be quite honest.

If Porto read the thread after it had 1000 posts, how was she supposed to have posted on it

It is personal though. would it be funny if you had said, "This po man is bitter about his miserable life. He doesnt see his adult sons or grandchildren now because of his bitter attitude to life. He shops in lidl because he didnt work hard enough so its self inflicted poverty really. When he thinks of his marriage breakdown, he wallows in the patheticness of how his life has panned out." Funny shit eh? What a hoot.

Oh the flip side is the wealthy silly women on here who never fail to mention they live in a market town or even fashionable village and spend alot of time banging on about what shade of F&B sludge to paint the pantry, husbands job, degree in something, what they are spending hubby's money on etc

there is a part deux Quick

Seriously though...I am slightly miffed..it is just a bit hypocritical to be outraged by laqueens post then say 'is that ironic given she's a part time dental receptionist'. Which is also putting someone down because of their job.

Yes it's not the best job ever but is not that sneer worthy.

When you say "larks" you mean slagging off other people whom cannot complain because you are "only having a laugh" says my PM inbox. Nice. It is like being at school.

Sneering at a "certain type of woman" is not misogyny. Women are not a special interest group, we do not need to be protected from ourselves. Some people (who are women) are a joyless PITA. I could sketch a similar vignette about PO men. Easy peasy.

Otherwise I think both threads are MN being a tad intense and navelgazey.

it wasn't about actual people, it was made up. Fiction. A story.

Everyone can be offended by whatever they want to be offended by, we're all adults and this is an open forum, you cant possible like all of it. It's inevitable you will think some of it is shit.

I'm hugely offended by this thread actually.

Who has the right to decide who is 'PO'? And, why, because my sense of humour is sometimes different to yours, does that make me a dickhead?

I have tons of glitter my sodding daughter got given tubes of the stuff and it is still in the floorboards six years later

but it still reminds me of the best post I ever read - someone can remind me who it was - who used her daughter's glittery flannel pre smear test- and the gynae said 'Someone's made an effort haven't they?!'

I don't care if that happened or not - tis what keeps me and DH going when he calls me glitter girl for the umpteenth time because of the blasted stuff everywhere in our flat.

And did you know that tiny bits of glitter in your hair look just like tiny headlice? Aaaarrrggghhh! Curse of the black spot - noooooooo, not again.
Oh, hang on a minute, different light angle...it's just glitter.

oh Fanjo , folk hate LaQ and we all have to accept that. She is funny and witty and quite cutting and no one likes that so the riposte is to try and cut her to the quick. I am certain she doesn't truly give a shit though

Also i don't think that post was misogynistic so much as...well...snobbery. It's all rather Hyacinth Bucket, isn't it. Bourgeois.

Re 'PO' yes that can mean 'po-faced' but it is also used to describe the 'professionally offended' which translates on here as a person who objects to for example disablist comments.

First I heard of it, it meant professionally offended, now it seems to have been watered down to meaning only po-faced.

Land of, I don't think anyone on that thread thought they had the right to decide anything. It was opinion, and joshing, and more than a dash of exaggeration for comic effect.

LOL I was being O not PO

So there

I don't understand what you mean FunnyInLaJardin, I said I thought it was funny.
Even though I've got a Citroen Piccasso [bublush]

Porto you could have joined in the fun. You are miffed because you missed it. It was a thread booing at the folk who piss in everyones fun, there are plenty of them out there. None though on this thread, note the absence of deletions!

So you've started a thread about another thread. Quoted out of context. Accused alot of people of being misogynistic.
Frankly, I find that offensive.
Do you read every thread and then start another thread if you don't like it? Or were you just trying to whip up a storm?
Have you ever watched a drama on BBC? Do you write to them if they portray a woman in a light you don't agree with?
Not one of those comments were aimed at one person/poster.
Irony.

I need some better comebacks

Objecting to disablist comments does not make you "professionally offended" FFS! Would you say the same about someone who objects to racism?