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

999 replies

Portofino · 29/03/2013 19:56

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.

OP posts:
LandofTute · 30/03/2013 00:23

I've always assumed that people who are vile and sneery on internet boards were the class bully at school, but are a bit frustrated at not having so many opportunities to bully in adult life, so they use internet boards.

McBalls · 30/03/2013 00:25

None of that is relevant to this thread though, eh Kansas?
So that's something.

LandofTute · 30/03/2013 00:26

People who are truly successful and happy have no need to sneer in my experience.

cestlesautres · 30/03/2013 00:26

Justine made the point that none of us are entitled to tell another poster not to post on a thread; an OP is not entitled to tell another MNer that he is not allowed to post on her thread. On this thread Portofino is being told to do this, do that. But she;s allowed to start a thread as long as it doesn't break TGs; all this stuff about how she SHOULD be conducting her MNing is neither here nor there.

cestlesautres · 30/03/2013 00:28

LandofTute and Pollypandemonium, I agree with your posts although I think calling it wit is going too far.

McBalls · 30/03/2013 00:29

Quite, cest.
I think this has been a largely well received thread and obviously that doesn't suit some hence all the attempts at shushing.

pollypandemonium · 30/03/2013 00:31

She's telling teacher and they don't like that - they want her to fight round the back of the bike sheds where they want her.

McBalls · 30/03/2013 00:32

Just let people say what they want, where they want I reckon.
Disagree with it then feel free to say so. Feel like posting something likely to cause a reaction? Then be prepared to accept the reaction will come.

HandbagCrab · 30/03/2013 00:34

Maybe. Lots of frustrated bullies looking for someone 'safe' to kick out at.

I like mumsnet a lot. I don't like the boring popularity contest bits but I have seen them on every forum I have paid attention to so I guess it is human nature.

FrankWippery · 30/03/2013 00:37

Twenty for some reason I think that was Pag, but I may be way off. That was such a funny thread!

cestlesautres · 30/03/2013 00:38

Popularity is another strange misnomer.

TuftyFinch · 30/03/2013 00:38

The rain's stopped if you lot want to get out of the car and eat your sandwiches on the beach?

McBalls · 30/03/2013 00:39

I am SO tired but made fatal flaw of eating massive sandwich at 11. My eyes are begging for sleep but my digestive system is cracking open the tequila.

pollypandemonium · 30/03/2013 00:40

Grin @ Tufty

cestlesautres · 30/03/2013 00:40

Arisbottle is correct not only in her posts but in her motivation for going to bed.

LadyBeaEGGleEyes · 30/03/2013 00:49

Basically this thread was started to attack LaQueen really.
She was one poster among many.
And it was a rather nice, friendly happy thread which everybody could have joined, it veered in many directions as all the best ones do.
I think the so called Po have just been proved to exist here on this one, sadly.
[bugrin] Tufty.

We all have a different SOH after all.

EduCated · 30/03/2013 00:55

Is there not something somewhat ironic in taking offence at others being offended? Confused

usualsuspect · 30/03/2013 00:58

Was it my post about rich tea biscuits?

cestlesautres · 30/03/2013 01:00

Making everything on MN personal reduces it. The OP is making a really good point in her OP - how can anyone possibly say it's an attack on an individual poster? If nothing can be discussed on MN without reducing it to personalities, then it's all pointless.

MsWinnieBaygo · 30/03/2013 01:02

I've read to page 4 and can't be arsed to read anymore so apologies if the thread as moved on since then but I honest cant see what is so offensive about the comments that were copied and pasted. They read tongue in cheek to me and a good analogy of a typically 'disgusted from Tunbridge Wells' ie. the PO.

What exactly is the issue? Hmm

Or am I not PO enough to understand?

cestlesautres · 30/03/2013 01:03

Also the personalisation of every issue plays into the stereotype that women lack intellectual rigour.

cestlesautres · 30/03/2013 01:04

Grin MsBaygo. I don't think that was the aim.

MsWinnieBaygo · 30/03/2013 01:06

P.S the comments that were copied and pasted were vile? Vile? Really?!

Maybe I just have too much real life sparkle to see the vileness in them Grin

notimefors · 30/03/2013 01:07

My DH is forever saying that I am "no fun anymore". I always tell him I was never fun in the first place and he must have been confusing me with someone else. Then I laugh out loud because it's true, and he's stuck married to a miserable fecker like me. Haha. But seriously, the poor chap.

Anyway, I must be PO! Is there a quiche I can join somewhere?

LadyBeaEGGleEyes · 30/03/2013 01:07

Er, the Op made it plain that it was personal cest as she copied and pasted the comments of one particular poster.
Didn't you see that?