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.

As Porto summarised at the beginning
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.

The poster is attacking poor women, those in unhappy marriages, those who are perhaps a bit shy and struggled to make friends at school. The women who worry about their children struggling at the school. Those who have to work in a job they hate, having no money to buy nice clothes and feel a bit shabby. The women who struggle socially or stress about not being invited out. Those common insecurities have been picked up on and used as some vicious blame game to sneer and belittle them if they dare to disagree. The women who "sparkle and glitter" clearly chose their own delightfully happy destiny and deserve every bit of it.

It's fine to be humourless. It's just that an Internet forum isn't a great place to do it. People who are trying to enjoy themselves feel put upon and may retaliate. Not edifying but there we go.

I have no idea why anyone is getting so hung up on the polyester/morrisons/Picasso nonsense. A year ago I lived in a five bedroom house in the country with a six figure household income. I'm now a single parent in a rented mid terrace. Did I think laqueen was in any way sneering at me? Nope. Because (and I fear I am repeating myself) she was sneering at small minds, not small incomes. If you're not a small minded tede you have no reason to be upset. She want talking about you.

I read the thread yesterday and thought more or less the same as Pinot.

More than. I read the thread, remember. I read the thread before someone took the trouble to remind me not to be offended. I Am offended because there was a lot of misogynistic nastiness, that was NOT joking, sorry, and I want to understand if that is was what MN is like now.

Alcazar that's it.

What's wrong with being a part time dental receptionist?

The point is somewhere back there, redbindy. I think you've missed it.

Chub Just because people don't find the spoof threads funny, or don't have the same sense of humour as you, or other posters it doesn't make them "humourless"![bhmm]

Alcazar,you described my thoughts fantastically there.thank you.

Northern

Have you read the thread, because I saw several posts where people had an affinity with the character they were talking about because it was them or where they had been at some time in their life.

You're a bully making me use dental floss Fanjo? Who the hell has time for floss! I use plackets.

Holy molie. A very boring post there. Damn my small mind.

Perhaps not. But not sharing yours or the ops doesn't make someone a misogynist.

Portofino

Yes it is what Mnet is like to the posters who would like to post on that thread, the same as it has purposes for other posters to post on threads they want to. It is one thread among many. I can't see why anyone would be offended by something meant to be funny.
FFs it is nothing compared to the horrible and nasty comments slung to one another on a sahm/wohm thread. Now they're horrible.

Sorry..it gives me a power trip

Oh FFS, it was a fun thread, if you didn't like LaQueens posts take it up with her.
She made a very generalised post about miserable people.
And no, I didn't agree with it all, but I've never seen her come on benefits threads, or call people scroungers, or knock anybody that is struggling.
Save your ire for them.

How do you know it's not their lives? Of course it bloody is, just because LaQ is loaded doesn't mean we all are

I've just bloody posted to say it is my life.

If you'd read the thread or knew anything about her history you'd also know that she hasn't always been well off either and has actually been through some pretty crappy times herself.

It's just someone else's sense of humour, nothing more nothing less.

Do you wave a mirror over the open gob to shame your patients ? Eh? Come on...fess up.

I am Mrs Po. BUT despite all this shit I am actually quite happy, does this make my opinions of the po variety or are they as valid as those of leQ?

If you did not like it, why on earth did you read it, then start a thread about a thread?

Cabbage -Yes, it makes me feel fulfilled

We have to have glitter on here now? I thought that was reserved for nethuns.