No wonder the only people who would run with it are a completely unknown and frankly ridiculous zine. It’s such a poorly written and obvious hatchet job that even the Guardian, that bastion of misogyny, wouldn’t run it.
It’s utter bollocks of course, but it is interesting the spacing between these “Mumsnet is awful” articles is just enough to keep the misogynists foaming at the mouth.
The bottom line is this. If all you allow women to speak about is nappies and baby feeding, you’re not breaking any kind of gender binary, you’re reinforcing it.
If you concede that women are allowed to have opinions on issues that will affect every aspect of their lives, but that they have to accord with your restrictive one that has been formulated by men, then you’re again, not breaking gender binaries, you’re reinforcing them.
Give it 10 days and the next “Mumsnet is awful” piece will come out and again the MRAs,who want women silenced, will drool into their cornflakes and we’ll go right on talking about women’s issues until MNHQ finally caves like everywhere else has.
That’s all these pieces and tweets and op eds want. Silent, compliant women.