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

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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.

I am really struggling with that Funnier

It's just a narrative about what LaQ thinks people with po attitude might be like

I can't see it as an "attack" on people on MN?

I don't understand the bullying thing at all, seeker

I really want to know who the mysterious bully group are tho.

Funny how they never quite get identified.

I'm with cestlesautres but I dont think that being sneery about lifestyle is bullying. Bullying is ganging up and picking on someone and that should be dealt with properly . However many of the wittiest/oldest/most popular posters partake in it and hq doesnt want to lose them so nothing ever changes.

I take issue with your use of "wit" there, polly.

I think Funnier has a Citroen Picasso

I had a Citroen Picasso years ago. Thought I was the dogs bollocks too.

What the hell does that make me?

could we have examples of this polly?

It's not really on to make that assertion and not back it up, is it?

Two examples will do.

IM(Po)O there are bullying posts and bullying comments every day.

No they do not want your lunch money but there are a fair few posts made in an attempt to belittle and humiliate the poster rather than debate the arguments made by that poster.

God, please don't LaQ. Once was enough.

Please do LeQ

No Hully you can't from me I won't get drawn in. You need to reflect if you don't get the bullying thing.

yellow and green, do you mean like what is being done to LaQ?

If not and you mean something else, would you point me in the direction of a couple of examples so I can understand what you mean?

Laqueen, it was spectacularly wanky post, very sneery and yes, seemingly all about wealth/class. That is how it read. That may not have been your intention.

And no, I don't shop at Morrisons, I have never driven a Citreon. Don't even consider myself PO. It didn't apply to me at all, in all honesty. I still thought it nasty.

I just think that on this occasion it was a joke that went rather too far and didn't come across as you perhaps intended.

But polly, I don't understand.

You say there is bullying, but won't back it up.

How can I understand what you mean and agree/disagree if you won't explain and exemplify?

What am I to relfect upon??

That's like me saying, There are closet racists all over MN. No I won't point it out, you must reflect.

Meaningless.

Someone said ages ago that there is tryly nasty stuff on MN about people on benefits etc yet no one starts threads to protest about them.

Troo dat.

Why is LaQ's made-up narrative so much more offensive than the true nastiness?

It's hard to avoid thinking it personal.

I will find some examples.

It was the compartments that swung it for me too. I bloody loved it.

Of course we protest against benefit bashing/disablist/racist whatever threads.

People who post in a cunty fashion are almost always pulled up on it. It's one of the reasons I love MN.