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Personal Attacks on 'Other Women'

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YvaineStormhold · 16/04/2016 11:25

I've just been on yet another thread where a woman is being called horrendous names such as 'slag', 'bitch' and 'scumbag' because she's confessed to sleeping with a married man.

I've reported the posts to MNHQ, but I wanted to discuss this as a general trend that I've noticed developing on MN in the 10 or so years I've been here.

It seems that personal attacks and judgement are off-limits, except when it comes to OW, and then anything goes.

Is there anything that can be done about this? Surely no matter what someone's relationship history, they should be able to talk about it on MN without being subject to vicious and often misogynistic language?

Could a special eye be kept on OW threads, for example?

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DawnMumsnet · 16/04/2016 17:28

Afternoon all,

We've had a number of reports about this thread possibly being a thread about a thread, but we take the OP's point that while it may have been influenced by a certain thread that we deleted earlier, it's asking general questions about the way OW and OM get responded to on the Talk boards. We're therefore happy to let it stand.

As ever, we rely on you lot to report any posts which you feel cross the line. If we take a look and agree that a post is a personal attack, we'll always zap it. We usually send out a mail to the poster in question letting them know why we've deleted their post and asking them to post within our Talk Guidelines.

Of course we can understand why this subject is a sensitive and upsetting one for many of you (and indeed us), but we have to be scrupulously fair in applying our site rules to any reported posts. We'd always ask that you try to make your point without resorting to personal attacks.

Many thanks.

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