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Official Complaint to Mumsnet

639 replies

CoconutQueen · 02/02/2023 09:47

Totally inappropriate enormous vibrator adverts now ALL over Mumnset.

What on earth are you thinking of? Is Mumsnet really that short of cash that they have to stoop this low?

Not to mention the ridiculous woke language ie "people with wombs".

Totally inappropriate on ALL levels.

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Youwhatnowbiggles · 02/02/2023 12:27

But then it would be a TAAT @ThisWOMANWontWheesht and it’ll get zapped by the ‘censors’.

ThisWOMANWontWheesht · 02/02/2023 12:30

Youwhatnowbiggles · 02/02/2023 12:27

But then it would be a TAAT @ThisWOMANWontWheesht and it’ll get zapped by the ‘censors’.

But it doesn't have to be referencing this thread... a poster just happened to notice the ad, got annoyed and posted there about it, with no knowledge of this thread ever having existed.
😉

Toomuchinfor · 02/02/2023 12:33

It's super patronizing. It's a vibrator. Mothers aren't a different species needing different sex toys. Mumsnet has clearly just decided to cash in by selling new mothers the idea that they need a mumsy vibrator. They don't.

What not stop trying to make a quick buck and sort out your woefully slow and clunky site.

YesitsBess · 02/02/2023 12:34

Youwhatnowbiggles · 02/02/2023 12:27

But then it would be a TAAT @ThisWOMANWontWheesht and it’ll get zapped by the ‘censors’.

There's already one in aIBU about 'vulva owners?' Which is also now missing from active and trending.

Pisspoor behaviour from MN. I've been here for years and rarely seen the like.

ValerieDoonican · 02/02/2023 12:35

I was expecting to find it in active too.

Odd, tehre are threads in there where the last post was 5 minutes ago and yet this one...

SomersetDreams · 02/02/2023 12:36

Finally got a vibrator ad....the site looks like a fake site. lol

ANyone ordered The Whisperer...sounds like a seril killer name lol

Mumsnet Standards darlings Standards!!!

SalviaOfficinalis · 02/02/2023 12:36

There’s one in the sex topic - mumsnet are launching a vibrator.

YesitsBess · 02/02/2023 12:38

They can launch it into the fucking Sun.

CoffeeRightNow · 02/02/2023 12:38

Called a vulva owner.

Given an embarrassing GenderWoo101 lesson on ‘cis gender’

Presented with a green thumb thingy.

Told I need it because as a mother I must be so <coy giggle> embarrassed about the fact I am a sexual being

God, I feel horny now. Horny and empowered. In fact, horny and empowered and educated.

You really have made me smile @SmileMakers

Youwhatnowbiggles · 02/02/2023 12:39

Yep, I went to post on the other one when I realised this one was being (to all intents and purposes) covertly hidden. That’s why posting a new thread is pointless, they’ll just zap it. But I’ve posted on here to alert those who’ve previously replied that they are being censored in case they look back.

TrashyPanda · 02/02/2023 12:39

ZeroFuchsGiven · 02/02/2023 11:49

Another gem from their site.

To be cisgender or cissexual is someone who's gender identity is the same as the sex they were assigned at birth. Someone with female genitals for example, may identify as a woman and so would be known as cisgender, often abbreviated as cis.

Well, we all know which vibrator company to avoid, don’t we?

what a load of arses.

Cis is a made up term.
it is highly offensive to impose this term on anybody

TheShellBeach · 02/02/2023 12:39

CherylMumsnet · 02/02/2023 11:26

Hi everyone - thanks for your comments. We appreciate the strength of feeling. Clearly, some of the wording used is unpopular with many of you. We’re going to discuss all the points raised with Smile Makers and will get back to you asap. Please do continue to share your thoughts - we are listening.

I actually don't care about the vibrator ads but I object vociferously to your using language which TRAs use in order to denigrate women.

I am very angry that you see fit to call women "people with vulvas" and other things on the same lines.

We are WOMEN.

@MNHQ Can you clarify what you think a woman is?

YesitsBess · 02/02/2023 12:40

@CoffeeRightNow and charged 35 quid for the privilege.

THIRTY FIVE QUID?!? IN THIS ECONOMY?

SausageInCider · 02/02/2023 12:40

YesitsBess · 02/02/2023 12:38

They can launch it into the fucking Sun.

😁

MuckyPlucky · 02/02/2023 12:41

@MNHQ Why is this thread now hidden from ‘Active’ ? Could you enlighten us all please? TIA

ThisWOMANWontWheesht · 02/02/2023 12:41

CoffeeRightNow · 02/02/2023 12:38

Called a vulva owner.

Given an embarrassing GenderWoo101 lesson on ‘cis gender’

Presented with a green thumb thingy.

Told I need it because as a mother I must be so <coy giggle> embarrassed about the fact I am a sexual being

God, I feel horny now. Horny and empowered. In fact, horny and empowered and educated.

You really have made me smile @SmileMakers

I think I love you.

Moopsi · 02/02/2023 12:42

SausageInCider · 02/02/2023 12:40

😁

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But Shrek's earwax will melt. Have you not heard of Icarus?

MuckyPlucky · 02/02/2023 12:42

I wonder what might be the response if every single person on this thread were to post asking innocently why our legitimate, non-rule-breaking thread has been hidden from ‘Active’?
🤔

YesitsBess · 02/02/2023 12:43

@Moopsi Precisely! Job jobbed 😁

MuckyPlucky · 02/02/2023 12:43

(Post to MNHQ I mean)

Beyonsp · 02/02/2023 12:45

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Official Complaint to Mumsnet
YesitsBess · 02/02/2023 12:47

Beyonsp · 02/02/2023 12:45

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Oh Lawks. Thankyou so much for that. Muttley laughing here.

ThisWOMANWontWheesht · 02/02/2023 12:47

@Beyonsp 👏👏😂

TrashyPanda · 02/02/2023 12:48

And what is the crap about sex being taboo for mothers?

Ann Summers is a high street shop.
they don’t ban mothers.

this free marketing from MN is not going well for Smile Makers.

would anyone buy from this company now?

kind of an own goal.

SalviaOfficinalis · 02/02/2023 12:50

Smile Makers (and their smiley face logo) is very creepy for a sex toy brand, it looks like a chain of nurseries.