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Hey 'Mums', I have to share this very patronising press release

146 replies

edam · 15/05/2013 14:58

My inbox has rarely been so insulted... patronising, sexist and ungrammatical. Wow.

"New Campaign to give Mums the confidence to get organised, save money and improve family health
"The Five Million Mums Campaign launches today with a call to challenge Five Million Mums to create Five million healthy families by embracing organising and cooking skills and passing them onto the next generation.

"The 2013 Confident Mum survey found that 1 in 3 mums says that they can?t provide healthy meals because they are not organised.

"The new survey of 1,132 Mums across the UK and Ireland reveals that while all Mums know the importance of healthy meals, and most can cook a meal from scratch using fresh ingredients, 1 in 3 have replaced the amount of fresh vegetables and fruit they buy with unhealthy, ?cheap?, processed foods in order to combat rising food prices. Supermarket ?deals? encouraging multi-buy are leading 1 in 2 Mums to admit to wasting more food than they would like, and not getting the intended savings they needed.

"Sian Breslin, home economist and the driving force behind the Five Million Mums Campaign explains that this down to a lack of simple organisation skills in the kitchen. She said, ?I?m not surprised by these figures. Rising trends in poor health is no longer a cooking ability issue, nor is it down to a lack of health education. With the 21st Century Mum being busier than ever before, and with supermarkets and food brands influencing our every food decision, Mums need to be more organised in the kitchen. The alternative is unhealthy, processed, convenience foods and poor family health. We have to take action now to combat the rising epidemic in family obesity, diabetes, and diet related disease. Five Million Mums is aimed at giving Mums the confidence to take the lead and get organised in the kitchen?.

"On an optimistic note the survey, conducted in partnership with My Family Club and Mummy Pages, reveal that 8 in 10 families do eat together, at least 3 times a week! So contrary to popular myth, the family dinner remains a cornerstone for many families.

"The Five Million Mums Campaign launches today with a call to challenge Five Million Mums to create Five million healthy families by embracing organising and cooking skills and passing them onto the next generation. The campaign embraces technology believing that modern Mums can make use of it to organise their kitchen. This makes meal planning and organising skills, which our mums and grannies did so well, really relevant to todays Mums.

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NicholasTeakozy · 16/05/2013 08:31

Can somebody who uses the Twitters tweet Sy-Anne a link to this thread? I'd love to see her reaction to 5 million mums and 2 dads say fuck off. :o

GladbagsGold · 16/05/2013 08:44

That is truly awful.

maidmarian2012 · 16/05/2013 08:45

Nicholas Grin

lubeybooby · 16/05/2013 08:55

I just don't even have any words

apart from adding my FUCK OFF!

BumpingFuglies · 16/05/2013 08:59

Good grief I just looked at this tripe. May I suggest a bombardment of the facebook page? What fucking century is this woman from?

Angry
Bramblesinafield · 16/05/2013 09:43

FGS how patronizing. And yet another twonk perpetuating the myth that my son's diabetes (type one, autoimmune) is down to neglectful parenting. Lazy, patronizing writing.

StealthOfficialCrispTester · 16/05/2013 09:53

Yes and in fact the vast majority of childhood diabetes is t1.
Howver good diet and habits in childhood set you up to not be obese and develop t2 in later life. Not condoning what this idiot is writing and my first thought was does she know the difference between t1 and t2 but on reflection she probably is right on tbag score.
Much as it galls me to say.
So how are all us mums doing today. I have ironed my pinny

UptoapointLordCopper · 16/05/2013 10:00

"Iron"? "Pinny"? What are those things?

WilsonFrickett · 16/05/2013 10:04

It's all your fault Copper. All. Of. It. Quite frankly I am Shock you haven't realised this already. You're a disgrace to Mums.

However for a mere £500 a month you can access my new mumzplaining app which provides simple definitions and instruction guides for such common Mum-based objects such as 'irons', 'pinnies' and everyone's favourite, the 'George Foreman grill'.

UptoapointLordCopper · 16/05/2013 10:19

Thank you for confirming my guilt Wilson. Off to flagellate myself now. But please be reasonable. If I give you 500 pounds how am I going to afford Sian's mealplanners and how am I to feed the poor starving children? I may be guilty but I'm not that stupid. Grin

Pagwatch · 16/05/2013 10:27

Her mummy pages have banner ad for cadburys dairy milk. My chocolate stash is actually one of the most organised bits of my kitchen.

Why is she rallying 'mums' to fight obesity whilst advertising chocolate bars?

WilsonFrickett · 16/05/2013 10:39

Fair enough Copper I will give you a discount of £5 which will enable you to afford some Siansplaining too. I take paypal Grin

Numberlock · 16/05/2013 11:25

Can somebody who uses the Twitters tweet Sy-Anne a link to this thread?

Oh yes please, someone do this!

EuroShaggleton · 16/05/2013 11:31

Sian, 1953 is calling and it wants you back!

K8Middleton · 16/05/2013 12:14

I may post her an Off you fuck pinny. Or an I'm a wank badger tea towel.

Or set up a rival site Quick meals for the stressed and the desperate. First feature: 30 things to do with a potato. 8 of them are even food related Wink

anklebitersmum · 16/05/2013 12:15

Grin Pagwatch

It's "Do as I say, not do as I do" dontcha know..

BIWI · 16/05/2013 12:22

Grin Paggy!

CashmereHoodlum · 16/05/2013 12:35

I'm disorganized because I am a lazy arse, and considerably less busy than my mother or grandmother ever were. I feel queasy when I hear about "busy Mums", and why do we have to write Mums with a capital letter? Why do we have to write Mums at all when parents (with a small p) will do.

CashmereHoodlum · 16/05/2013 12:42

Just looked at their website and they are empowering mums, sorry Mums. Whenever I see the word empowering I know somebody is trying to convince me that something sexist is not, in fact, sexist.

EduCated · 16/05/2013 13:27

This is making me want to get pregnant and how birth in record time just to join the 5 Million Mums Say Fuck Off Angry

RichManPoorManBeggarmanThief · 16/05/2013 13:41

ooh, they have a FB page. Just saying......

Pagwatch · 16/05/2013 13:44

Empowered Mums eat chocolate whilst saying fuck off.

Haha at Facebook glee

YoniTime · 16/05/2013 13:52

Mmmm chocolate, nice banner ad placing there, yes I think we will have some cadbury bars for dinner.

I'm surprised no MRA's have joined in to criticize the sexism of this...it's for Mums only and don't mention men and Dads at all. Actually I'm not surprised

RichManPoorManBeggarmanThief · 16/05/2013 13:57

Sian's empowering is empowering in the same way that pole dancing is empowering.

In fact I think Sian should be forced to find and replace "empower" with "guilt trip"

Bramblesinafield · 16/05/2013 14:01

Nodding wholeheartedly along. Strewth, not sure I know which big of outrage to start with!