Why are you making fun of someone's appearance with your logo change

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Can I ask why you've changed the logo to be big ears to poke fun at King Charles?

I'm not a royalist but I don't think making fun of someone like this for their appearance is really fair.

It surely falls under "Not in the spirit" apart from being really poorly executed. It's clumsy and mean.

I am not remotely a fan of the monarchy, but having received a 'warning' email from mnhq last week about some of my posts "not being in the spirit", and basically telling me to 'be kind', the hypocrisy is screamingly apparent here.

Pathetic. Are the Teenagers in charge of that

Where do I see it?

Agreed, this is terrible. Puts me right off this site.

Doesn't surprise me. Whoever is in charge @mnhq, nowadays isn't reading the room on so many levels

It’s not very nice is it? The crown is fair enough, but the ears need to go. It just feels like mocking someone for something that can’t be helped

It's on the website.

Wow!

I use the app so just looked at the website, has Mumsnet been hacked? Really not in the spirit.

Who signed that off?

I completely agree. It's embarrassing that you did that MNHQ. Base humour about someone's appearance 🤨

Agree its really not acceptable! @mnhq what is the explanation for this awful logo??

So @MNHQ personal attacks are now ok as long as you find them "funny". Righto.

I was about to start of thread on this.
Totally inappropriate and unkind. Crown, yes. Ears, NO.

Well I for one thinks it’s fine and people should get a grip! KC is the first person to enjoy a good laugh so would likely find it funny to be featured on Mumsnet in this way.

I'm on the app and hadn't seen this. So mean spirited but also just plain odd. Can't believe anyone would allow that "design" (using the word in the loosest possible sense because it's really poorly executed) to be live on the site. Horrible mocking of a person, and I'm not a royalist just a human being who thinks you don't shame others for physical features they have no control over.

Yikes.

A daily mail thread is incoming, brace yourself

if you want to mock the king, a crown and a leaky quill pen would be a just criticism of how he treats people.

i had class="underline">earsbatearspinnaplasty childhood surgery for bat ears and live with lifelong pain from the cartilage scarring. Images like the current logo endorse the mockery of bat ears that drives parents into agreeing to this purely cosmetic procedure on behalf of children who are too young to consent themselves but will have to live with the consequences. For a parenting website, this logo is utterly tone-deaf.

I'm not a royalist. This is inappropriate mumsnet. Very mean spirited.

Who designed it? It's really unkind.

@Soontobe60 I have a squint. Would it be ok for the logo to be changed to mock him if he had a squint and if not why not? What's the difference? It's a physical appearance he can't change.

I'm also not a royalist, but I agree it's in poor taste. When did making fun of a person's appearance become acceptable? When would it be considered not acceptable? What physical attributes are deemed to be not up for mockery?

Agree

The man is a dimwitted, expensive anachronism, leading an institution that is an embarrassment, but body-shaming is very much ‘not in the spirit’.

Mock his privilege, sure, but not his ears.

Bloody hell, MN! What were you thinking?

I don't think anyone enjoys people mocking their appearance, no matter how much they like a good laugh.

The fact is King Charles's ears aren't even remarkably big! Spitting Image is to blame for that misconception, yet here we are in 2023 having the same hackneyed old gag wheeled out because MNHQ are lazy and thoughtless.