3 strikes and you're out

[spontaneousgiventime]

Sorry to start this thread but I'm livid. I'm beyond livid to be fair.

I'm now on strike two and have been warned my posting privilege is at risk.

The reason for this thread is; please don't take the new guidelines at face value. I got a strike today for calling a man who presents as a woman a name NOT on the banned list. Obviously now I can't say what it was, I am effectively gagged.

I now have six weeks of no free speech until the strikes I have are wiped - again effectively gagged.

So, you won't see me much as I will NOT refer to men who present as women as the names we are allowed to call them, so will end up banned. I will post bland banal comments that can't offend any sensibilities here and let rip elsewhere where free speech is encouraged.

PLEASE, please, watch your words or MN will use this as a reason the close the FWR board.

[ItsNachoCheese]

The way i see it through my 26yr old eyes is if you have a uterus, ovaries etc you are a woman.
If you have a penis and testicles you are a man
spontaneous

[CertainHalfDesertedStreets]

Afford adoption?!!

You're in the US then? Thanks for stopping by to visit us here. Are there no women you can annoy more locally?

[Maryzsnewaccount]

"we want to allow everyone to express their opinions on this issue"

Bollocks do they.

There are no guidelines that are possible to follow accurately, just lots of "probably"s and "maybe"s and "likely"s and "depends on how many reports we get"s.

We are three days in. I doubt any of the regular posters will be here by this day next week.

[BeyondSceptical]

Infertile woman, eh? That appears to contradict your introductory post.

🤐

[AngryAttackKittens]

More goading. They want us angry enough to say something MNHQ can ban us for.

[Maryzsnewaccount]

More fucking references to infertility and adoption.

This is ok, MNHQ? This is what you want? This is the way you want your site to be seen by everyone outside it?

Men telling women to shut up. Men telling women how to manage their bodies. Men minimising women's problems. Men belittling women for infertility.

This is all ok, and referring to men as being men, and male, isn't?

[BesmirchingMotherhood]

The thought of some poor traumatised kid having to call mum someone it can clearly see is a man sickens me.

[BeyondSceptical]

From the first Spartacus thread...

[stealthsquirrelnutkin]

Under these unfair rules it makes sense to hop over posts by provocative arseholes without bothering to read them. It will keep the shitstains out of your head, and save you from being provoked into responding and getting banned.

Mumsnet lacks a block or mute feature, so you have to do it yourself. After the first couple of moronic goady posts you recognise them for what they are, and after that you can save time and energy by not reading anything else posted by that person.

I agree with Spontaneous that the new forum is the place for unbridled conversation.

[GhostTess]

HalfDesertedStreets,

No Australia, but the adoption process is long, arduous and expensive

[BlackeyedSusan]

FWIW I'm going to try to start threads about Other Things in FWR so we can still use it as a place to stay and chat and be connected and share ideas, even if we're trying not to get permabanned.

does that mean we get to talk about Christmas? now?

[BeyondSceptical]

Mumsnet is now the place for [ACRONYMs] to compare themselves to infertile women.

I'll start the slow clap...

[AngryAttackKittens]

I'd say think of it this way - some people tell you very early on exactly who they are. Once you know that, you also know how much their opinion is worth.

[BeyondSceptical]

Yy aak. Mentally drawing a line under That Poster now.

[R0wantrees]

GhostTess
With respect, our experiences are not the same. Please do not claim they are.

[Beamur]

There was a great exchange of jam and cake recipes on a thread last night which was a very constructive way of refusing to engage with a poster who had just come on to goad.
It was funny too.

[CertainHalfDesertedStreets]

FWIW the adoption process in the UK is pretty rigorous and starts with the best interests of the child. There are also lots of approved adopters waiting for children and therefore it's quite competitive. This means a child is usually placed with whichever set of prospective parents are best placed to meet that child's needs.

This may be reassuring for anyone with...questions.

[Maryzsnewaccount]

GhostTess had at least three deletions on the last Spartacus thread, why are they not banned?

No Christmas

[BeyondSceptical]

We gotta plan Xmas now maryz - I don't think we'll be around in the autumn to do it

[CertainHalfDesertedStreets]

I found myself looking at some nice serving platters in the sale yesterday and wondering if BIL and SIL would like them for Christmas...

[ErrolTheDragon]

DH bought some gooseberries- I'd been saying I'd not seen them in the shops for years. What can I do with them that's a bit lighter than crumble or pie?

[Picassospaintbrush]

I have reported again.

[BeyondSceptical]

I'd just stew them and eat them with yoghurt I reckon. Nothing fancy.

My gooseberry bush is one of the many plants I have managed to murder