Mumsnet being defamed/libelled about Christmas?

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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?

We might go to my parents this Christmas. They refuse to eat a traditional xmas dinner as they don't like it and don't bother with a tree. So yes, it must be true OP.

It's interesting that someone is trying to make people believe that Mumsnet feminists have nothing important to say.

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

And schools banning nativity plays, remember.

(I visit schools as part of my job and you can't walk a feckin' step in a primary school from November onwards without hearing 'Little Donkey').

It's a ridiculous fake. Personally I'd be ripping the piss out of your friend for not noticing the very obvious typos and other errors. What a plank!

It's a breach of the trademark of the Times.
They should have added Mary was only 12 or 14 years old and engaged to a much older man if they wanted to give the full picture.

Hahahaha. So bad it's almost good.
Tanith how about goose? Utterly delicious and as festive as you want it to be. More expensive,, but it doesn't outstay its welcome and hang around forever like turkey does.

Oh Bigotwoman now you given TRAs idea, they will be on the batphone discussing baby Jesus and getting the whole transphobic school Xmas plays cancelled.

Don’t tell them Santa & Mrs Claus are not real as I’m sure they be posting hate mail to the North Pole!

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

I’ve certainly never heard an atheist wanting to ban Christmas and I’ve been an atheist all my life.

Admittedly we don’t like people dragging religion into our annnual week-long booze and chocolate binge.

Oh dear. They're going to look rather foolish next week aren't they 

The virgin birth prediction was surely an example of a horoscope, it was revealed in the stars etc.... I mean horoscopes have been around for longer than Cosmopolitan has.

I always check mine to see if I'm going to have a good Christmas or be pregnant, science innit...

Tanith My friend swears by the turkey crown - not so much of it and easier to cook well than the whole bird. Goose delicious but expensive. Cooking a ham also a good bet, you can glaze it with something delicious and enjoy splendid ham sandwiches for a week or so afterwards if that’s your jam.

Admittedly we don’t like people dragging religion into our annnual week-long booze and chocolate binge.

I was talking to a British Jewish bloke a few days ago and we agreed that religion has no place in Xmas.

[Though you must not neglect to boil the ham - it gets all the meat up to temperature and prevents it from getting dry]

Oops forgot the ed on my bold username reply.

Yes turkey crown, I can’t be sticking my hand up a turkeys arse. I put my stuffing underneath turkey crown instead, no fiddly bones or veiny stuff to deal with.

I also go to the farms local Xmas events to traumatised child be seeing the lives turkeys running about.

Ha! TBF I've never been keen on the whole teenage girl raped by God story. Ban Christmas, and all its patriarchal storylines.

Saturnalia sounds more fun, tbh.

I always do a ham and DP does bubble and squeak, and on Boxing day that is what we eat with mince pies or whatever we have from xmas day. Someone else puts it out on the table/tidies it away. Means I do no cooking at all on Boxing Day.

Said friend is a bit of a conspiracy theorist nutter to be fair, but I found this one to be a bit much even by his usual standards!

Turkey crown in our house too btw, I wrap it in streaky bacon, roast it on a bed of apricot & chestnut stuffung and glaze it with a mix of jack daniels & honey

What the fuck?! I would like to ban the xmas topics in all honesty until December, but 'Mumsnet wants to ban xmas' is just ridiculous I think this is fake, to be quite honest. Noone would be daft enough to print that surely..

We're still thinking about what to have on Xmas day this year. I did consult Bunbury for ideas, but as she's a Kiwi, she witters about throwing shrimps on the barby...Quite how they go with sprouts is beyond me, but that's our Germaine for you.

I was talking to a British Jewish bloke a few days ago and we agreed that religion has no place in Xmas.

Ruins Easter too. I mean, who wants to listen to all that religious stuff when you are trying to stuff your face and watch The Great Escape?

Aspie

Agreed. Though I have to say - and it's bizarre, given that I'm an atheist - that I found myself perusing the Radio Times last Easter and commenting on how little religious content there was!

You can tell they are teenage boys. Lol. Silly things

My kids have left school and when they were in primary there was never a nativity anyway because not inclusive. There were Christmas shows and plays, but never a nativity. Not one time. Church school included. That's since 2000.