Sympathiser of MN hacking runs blog on childcare provider site

[antimatter]

Troll or not - he has decided that this company site is the right forum for his musings.

On a site which claims "A large part of the My Family Care Group is Tinies Childcare, a well-known name in childcare and parenting circles since 1975"
www.myfamilycare.co.uk

there is blog:
www.myfamilycare.co.uk/news/blog/hacktivism-or-poetic-justice.html

"Ben's no hacktivist but he knows when poetic justice has been done. With some recent reveals from website hacking, he wonders if these people are doing the right thing.

Marriage is tough, but
There have been two big website hacks that made plenty of headlines in the last few weeks. Top of the pile was obviously the Ashley Madison comeuppance. "Life is short - have an affair". I mean I'm all for living life, and marriage can be complicated, but it was pretty depressing stuff. 1.2 million email addresses in the UK! It's just an extraordinary number.
And whilst a few of us sniggered gleefully at the deserving member of the SNP caught up in the mix, overall it's a damning indictment of this wonderful modern world we've created for ourselves.

A real hacking win
And as for the other big hack it involved those holier than thou folk at Mumsnet. Some militant dads took exception to the sexist, opinionated vitriol that often passes for normal Mumsnet comment and decided to take the law into their own hands... Probably not the most sensible approach but I have some sympathy. Just ask Gina Ford or Amanda Holden. Being on the receiving end of a Mumsnet invective isn't much fun.

Positivity doesn't make news
I don't like Mumsnet - all those opinionated know-it-all mothers dominating the bulletin boards simply aren't my cup of tea. Its defenders say that it's nothing if not democratic. For every foul-mouthed tirade there's a positive comment in return, claim the founders. And for some lonely, depressed and grief stricken mothers it's an absolute lifeline. My issue with the site and everything it stands for runs a bit deeper.

And the loser is...
I dream of a world where there is equality between the sexes. I want my daughters to have exactly the same career and life opportunities as their brother, whether or not they decide to start a family along the way. We're getting closer but we'll only truly smash the remaining glass ceilings if men learn to be less macho and mothers stop being aggressively feminist. And some of the most aggressive feminists out there seem to live on Mumsnet. There I said it.
I expect my abuse to start. Let's hope I'm strong enough!
Ben Black

Wow, i can't take any of the comments I have just read in this thread seriously. Get a grip.

Not interested in gripping anything in your immediate vicinity. Lovely as you sound.

Can i have a grip if you are giving them out?

Too opinionated probably.

To have a grip, that is. Vair unladylike

I really hope he loses business over this. He deserves to.

And whilst a few of us sniggered gleefully at the deserving member of the SNP caught up in the mix

One does really wonder about his business acumen. Whilst I wasn't "sniggering gleefully" personally any bad PR for the SNP is fine by me.

However I might be a silly woman but I am savvy enough not to make comments disparaging any political party on my business website.

Wait, WAIT. Did he call Justine "flabby" ??

What a dick. I'll 'ave him for that.

What if someone sent the SWAT team round to his house in the dead of night, and took him away in handcuffs? Would he be LOLing at the poetic justice then?

Nothing like a lesson in glamour from a guy who's hair looks like a bad bikini wax.

Before I read that I was thinking he looks like a billiard ball with a face roughly drawn in with a sharpie. Now he looks like a billiard ball with a face roughly drawn on with a sharpie and then topped with a bad bikini wax.

I don't ever make personal comments on appearance, because it's rude and unkind. But given he thinks it is his place to assign marks to women at a professional event based on appearance, he presumably isn't bothered.

If any MNer is a hacker I think I can think of the first site to have a butchers at!

Why does he think this is a good idea on his corporate website?

Oooh! Oooh! I reckon I know the answer to that one Flora!

It's because he lacks all possible business acumen.

Do I get a badge now?

that website looks really really hackable a bit amateur

I don't ever make personal comments on appearance, because it's rude and unkind. But given he thinks it is his place to assign marks to women at a professional event based on appearance, he presumably isn't bothered.

My thoughts exactly.

Ballard ball Ben and his bad bikini wax barnet can fuck right off.

Billiard not Ballard. :o

My company offers myfamilycare as a service. It has been next to useless whenever I have tried to engage with it. For that reason "I'm out". Now it seems the founder is also unprofessional and a bit of a twit, so I will do what I always do when I need advice about the type of thing myfamilycare deals with and come to mumsnet.

Do you have the clout to raise question marks over them as a provider, TheOddity? I mean, if you wanted to, obviously

It is very strange how a man who is such a bog-standard unreconstructed sexist, is making a living from a service that primarily assists women, in a way that could be construed as feminist. Well I say assists - in the case of TheOddity, they don't even do that

From his website biog:

"A French wife, 3 young children and the occasional marathon keep Ben busy in his spare time."

Now why did he feel the need to tell us he has a French wife (apart from basic twattiness)?

Given that the stereotypical French wife is slim, chic, turns a blind eye to the mistress and accommodates her man's foibles no matter what, could it possibly be that he finds we British women to be horribly opinionated, flabby and ill-groomed by comparison? And thus deserve to be hacked and have SWAT teams sent to our houses in the middle of the night?

Or maybe he's just a big baldy twat.

How did such a total buffoon manage to run a successful business? He really doesn't seem to have any common sense whatsoever (putting it kindly).

Contacts through Old Boys club Lynda?

My employers are looking into child care providers, including this company. They are going to be deeply, deeply unimpressed by that. And by "they" I mean the male directors who will be making the final decision on this, not any MN reading harpies.

Whirlpool, seriously - I suggest you escalate this. As you say, it is wholly inappropriate for your employers to do business with people who make it clear that they despise those to whom they are providing their services, and who condone seriously criminal conduct. Perhaps your department head can have a word in the right ear?

"I don't need passion - I just need to do what you are hired to do , well and at a fair price."

Oh God YES.

Also, stuff your apologies, just don't do it again. (am well known for my intolerance for apologies.. those who are sincere don't need to apologise, and those who aren't always make such a song and dance of it)

antimatter - I was wondering if his mum set it up and passed it on to him and he feels weirdly emasculated as a result :o

I'm going to think on it. I will if I can think of a way without coming off as one of the aggressive feminists on MN that he's complaining about