I just found out there's a site called netmums

[Frans1980]

Did they steal the name mumsnet and swap the words around or did we steal their name?

I have no idea

Why is this a feminist issue?

They have been around since 2001 ish i think maybe before. No idea about mumsnet.

I've no idea but would like to know as well

they arrived after MN and for a time there was a sport here on MN to go over to NM's and report back on how much tumbleweed was blowing about because they had about 2 members.

This question is a bit like DH last night saying he had seen some report or other about something interesting on one of the parenting sites 'like MN'. I had to put him straight that there is MN and there are other sites. The two are mutually exclusive

This is not really a feminist issue.
More like a Million Pound Drop final question.

I 'think' from way back, I've been here since early days of Mumsnet, that Netmums founder is an ex mumsnetter.

Could be wrong though.

They are not the Judean People's Front......

Not a feminist issue, unless you have taken notice of recent results about a poll that was carried out over there. Feminism is apparently at best, dying out and irrelevant and at worst, extinct according to their members.
There have been threads about it on this site.

They both claim to be founded in 2000 so it must be a bit of a moot point which was first. I don't think their names are confusing so it's not a problem.

Both of course are dreadfully working class. Who calls their mother mum? Gosh, only plebs presumably.

We poor mummies are right out in the cold, excluded, rejected because we don't use that dreadful word mum.

Do your children call you mum, Xenia?
Or mummy?
Or by your first name? That used to be very cool when I was a teenager. Very trendy upper-class.

Xenia

Of course they call me mummy. Loads of upper middle class mummies are called mummy. Every time I see the word mumsnet I wince. Ugh.

Netmums is a little bit older than mumsnet, and it actually has more members. Mumsnet is better conected in the meeja and so gets much more press (mumsnet seems to really 'court' the press, but is actually less succesful in terms of ad revenue and members.

Netmums is a lot more annoying than here, but is more successful. I prefer it here, but I really hate all this netmums snobbery.

Doesn't The Lady have a website for the better classes to chat with other mummies?

mummysnet?
mummiesnet?
mummies'net? Perhaps that one.

MaMa'sNet? MaamsNet?

The second one

I am mumomum

I want a mumomumsnet

I'm now laughing at the idea that people are judged by how they refer to their Mum/Mummy/Mother.

I live in the north so I think we should have mamsnet

actually it shoudl be Parentsnet

Indeed.
Currently it is both arguably "common" and sexist in title.

I love the idea that "mum" is common

I shall tell the members of my family with titles to stop it at once

Ah it is starting to make more sense now.