Mumsnet being defamed/libelled about Christmas?

[Yambabe]

I've seen this posted by a friend on facebook today. He says "I got it from a media source, & it's apparently embargoed until midnight tonight as I think it may be hitting national news outlets some time this week. I don't have such reporting restrictions, so here it is." Direct quote.

People (not mutual friends thankfully) are commenting, a few have asked if it's a spoof but most seem to believe it. I've declared that it's absolute bollocks but even so. "Militant feminist forum"? Fuck off!

Besides, if we banned Christmas we'd lose half of AIBU at a stroke because people wouldn't have anything to argue with their families about.......

I'm still varying between amusement and anger here, why are people so very gullible and not engaging their brains these days?

Can you reply to your friend "why on earth are you sharing such obvious utter rubbish?"

Funny that a search doesn't show up any posts at all from those two usernames?

FFS, these people are desperate, aren't they? And not terribly mentally healthy, I think.

These two threads are together in my Active feed

Hmm not posted very well
It’s you thread
And underneath a chat thread called
Xmas

It's not even a good spoof - doesn't capture the Times style at all.

I'm sorry your friends have no critical faculties whatsoever.

I love Xmas. Am completely atheist and feminist.

That's so obviously made up it's not funny. How do people fall for it?

Why wasn't this posted in the Christmas topic?

I'm just surprised someone hasn't called for a gender neutral nativity yet. Men can experience immaculate conception too you transphobes!

Just went and checked what Bunbury has to say about Xmas.

She says "Be sure to put your sprouts on in November."

Ha ha. This is the same as those people who get the rage about 'Easter' supposedly being removed from chocolate eggs packaging every year, and yet somehow it never is.

Not sure about The Times headline. Pretty sure they get unhappy about people falsely using their name and typeface.

Vicky 😁

Humans are a waste of opposable thumbs

They haven't even bothered to spend enough time here to realise that the mods/staff use their real names

The quote from forum mod 'wonderwomxn1918' gives it away somewhat.

Is it the writing style or the spelling mistakes, that so clearly scream ‘authetic’ to your friends do you think?

Mumsnet is really coming under attack these days isn’t it. Was it Atwood who said men don’t like women talking.

Oh and I realise there’s a spelling mistake in my poorly written post!! Maybe there’s a future for me in poorly composed Facebook histrionics

Does this mean we are third in line behind atheists and Muslims - the other two groups supposedly out to stop Christmas?

Or fourth, behind the EU because tinsel is a health and safety risk?

It reads more like the Daily Mash tbh.

Christmas already?
Bloody hell.
I'm still preparing myself for social media claims that Muslims hate Remembrance Sunday and have a conspiracy to murder anyone wearing a poppy.

(Already had the illegal immigrants get more benefits than a pensioner share this week).

Does this mean we are third in line behind atheists and Muslims - the other two groups supposedly out to stop Christmas?

Wasn't it mostly woke councils who were alleged to be out to ban Xmas? 'Winterval' and all that?

Trying to decide on an alternative to Turkey. None of our family likes it.

Between woke councils and prisons serving 5* Christmas dinners whilst pensioners starve, it's no wonder Britain ain't what it used to be.