This is what Helen from Mermaids writes about MN feminist posters

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"If you’re a Mum and on mn that often to have time to engage with ‘feminist’ forums, you’re more likely to be a ‘stay at home mum’. These are bored middle-class women putting their privileged Uni-educated thoughts to oppressing a small, vulnerable, oppressed sector of society"

Nice bit of sexism going on there

twitter.com/mimmymum/status/967731110322036736

Oh, F4J decided we were all very anti-male - you know, the usual stuff MN is accused of. There was a massive row on the boards, where loads of F4J came and accused women of using their children as weapons, murdering their children, having children just to get the benefits etc etc - and then Matt went after M&S for advertising here.

M&S knew full well which side their bread was buttered, and of course MNetters are far more likely to be their customer base than F4J - and so took not one bit of notice of them.

So Matt went and set fire to his pants in M&S and got arrested. And then everything went on as normal

Was he wearing the pants at the time??!

I think what we don't understand is that we are not performing "woman" correctly. To fit into this brave new world we need to have the correct education, (see below) and only use our female brains in the proper way.

We are ruining everything unless we understand our backstage role, as the quiet, submissive, child raising homemaker. Who also works and provides half the cash (as if by magic as it would be foolish to assume we should be paid the same as men or non cunty women) do all the domestic drudge with a smile and leave all the sexy, proper lady stuff, and thinking, to those not cursed by bleeding or hormones etc.

Know your place CisWomen.

Nope - he stripped off.

You might want the brain bleach...

How interesting that his way of protesting about women's discussion is waving his wanger about.

'It was rather liberating".

Aye. Bet it was.

Unsurprising parallels between Matt's protest - willy waving to shut women up - and the TRAs shouting 'suck my lady dick' - to shut women up.

At least the policeman looks like the whole thing was amusing for him.

F4J seem to have taken the cliche about all publicity being good publicity a bit too much to heart. They'd be quite amusing if you didn't know why so many of them have been denied contact with their kids.

God, that F4J article's like something out of the Daily Mash.

Along with four other members of the group, O'Connor took off his clothes in the store to draw attention to what F4J claimed was Mumsnet's "anti-male agenda".

He claimed that the protest was just the start of a series of attacks on M&S in order to draw attention to the "naked truth" that Mumsnet "promotes gender hatred".

"We complained to Mumsnet and, frankly, expected them to start investigating it straight away. It is a popular and well-used website and we assumed it would want nothing to do with this content."

Dissatisfied with the response from Mumsnet, the group decided to target Marks & Spencer, which regularly advertises on the site.

"We decided to follow the money and draw attention to the company's connection with a website that had such hateful content on it. This is very serious issue, but they just failed to engage with us."

If I remember correctly, they then progressed to a dirty protest on DC.

Ignoring men makes them so angry.

"We complained to Mumsnet and, frankly, expected them to start investigating it straight away. It is a popular and well-used website and we assumed it would want nothing to do with this content."

It's quite telling and hilarious that men think adult women talking on a public forum should be supervised and controlled. As soon as they take exception to what they are saying, and are then utterly shocked that no one gives a fuck what they think. Including M&S.

It was also interesting to note that Justine said there were 30,000 comments per day. Scale up to month and it's nearly 1,000,000.

Which would only need a mere 12 lurkers for every poster to get up to that 12 million.

And i'm pretty sure there are way more than 12 lurkers for everyone who posts.

Funny how similar that is to Helens MO.

Meeting in mermaids batcave... (fishcave?)
"Hmm... how can we get across our thoughts on the hatefulness of Mn... oh I know, we'll copy what that famous MRA group did and go for their advertisers! That won't make us look at all like MRAs in disguise!"

So Matt went and set fire to his pants in M&S and got arrested. And then everything went on as normal

That made me laugh!

And, yeah, I somehow don't think that M & S are going to risk alienating 12 million customers, both potential and existing.

ASDA will I am sure will be equally cowed by Mermaids.

This is very serious issue, but they just failed to engage with us.

Hilarious

I did the same yesterday when my toddler hit me with a tonka truck because I wouldnt give him a kinder egg. Just sayin...

Well, every mum knows the standard advice to ignore a tantrum, whether it's your own child who wants a kinder egg, a stroppy Disney dad setting his knickers on fire, or a precious parent who's trying too hard to justify their dodgy parenting decisions

Isn't it a bit adolescent to try to set fire to ones own backside gas emissions?

Ok thanks terf, now in my head I have a really bad Meghan Trainor parody running on loop ‘all about that penis’.

If you’re a Mum and on mn that often to have time to engage with ‘feminist’ forums, you’re more likely to be a ‘stay at home mum’. These are bored middle-class women putting their privileged Uni-educated thoughts to oppressing a small, vulnerable, oppressed sector of society"

I am a stay at home mum. I can't afford to work, it's not unheard of. So privileged. So middle class. It's too bad I wasn't encouraged in to a STEM career making enough money to make it worth my while. I wonder why that could be?

MN wasn't what made me "peak trans" though. I've been on MN for years but it wasn't being discussed on here at that point. It was other feminist groups that had been taken over by men trans activists. They were telling women to stop talking about "female reproduction" and abortion as they aren't women's issues.

For obvious reasons MN was mostly populated by women so we weren't getting silenced and it wasn't discussed very often.

a! So if you're a woman who has had a child, you will not have met the same people that others meet. Hilarious opinion of women! Poor, stupid, impressionable women with no critical reasoning... luckily a trans woman has noticed our sad cause

Do they think women who have given birth are a small percentage of the population? You can tell she's hanging around too many women with with penises.

LUSH can afford to buy in to all this but ASDA and M&S etc can't they know who their consumers are and do their very best to court the MN demographic.

Because they know women do the majority of shopping, food prep, and clean up. Because of our lady brains obv.

"We decided to follow the money and draw attention to the company's connection with a website that had such hateful content on it. This is very serious issue, but they just failed to engage with us."

Did I wifey well?

I just made a chicken last 3 days.

It's wasn't from Asda tho.

(Sorry Asda, sainsbos is nearer.)

Ouchbirthhurted (great nick)

" @dullandold

How old was the child? Were any lobbying orgs involved,"

AFAIK about 14, and I don't know about any lobbying orgs. It is a family I am just acquainted with rather than being friends that I could ask about stuff...

*between 12 and 14 anyway