Why do the British press hate people like me and my friends so much?

[GrinitchSpinach]

266 upvotes on r/mtf

Mumsnet (or Momsnet? poster not sure) gets a special mention because although our posts might seem reasonable at first, they hide an underlying "hateful garbage" aimed at persuading "honest nice women."

For clarity, this MNetter does not wish any trans person out of existence. I do wish trans people happy lives free from discrimination in housing, employment, etc. I am not concerned about potential grandchildren.

[VickyEadie]

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer

No, it's great! I'm massively more choosy about what carbs I ingest and as a result have lost weight without much effort for the first time in my life.

Still love chocolate, but only eat really good stuff and will only have a pudding if (a) I can look at it first and (b) it looks good enough.

[ScienceIsTruth]

Personally, I think they mean datun, angryattackkittens, and lang to name but a few.

They've definitely ruined me, all I used to think about were fluffy whites kittens and baking. Now I have opinions!

[Rufusthebewilderedreindeer]

vicky

Really?

Oh hopefully I'll get that as well...I bloody doubt it but you never know

[AngryAttackKittens]

Wait, is this lack of sweet tooth in menopause a thing that happens to all/most women? If so my dentist will be delighted.

[Rufusthebewilderedreindeer]

angry

I dont think it hapoens to everyone

But everyone i know has stopped or is skipping periods and mine are getting more sodding frequent

There must be some sort of trade off as thats well unfair

[Micke]

I'm staying in a temporary house right now, and the boiler is under the worksurface. It's bloody weird, and warm enough, that if I had a cat, it would definitely be sat there.

I'm from Kent, treacle tart is too sweet, but I do miss Gypsy Tart - I was visiting my sister the other day and saw that Morrisons sold them there, but I was mid-trip and didn't buy one (been kicking myself since)

[ScienceIsTruth]

I don't really like sweet things anymore, VickyEadie, do you think that could be a sign that I'm nearing the perimenopause?

[FlyingOink]

5 a day, UK style

Chips
Biscuits with chocolate
Biscuits without chocolate
Curry
Just plain chocolate
Sticky toffee pudding?
Wot no lager?

[FlyingOink]

This made me laugh though

[AngryAttackKittens]

When people ignore everything you say in a meeting, and then a man repeats your point and is greeted with enthusiastic applause and plenty of well done's and brilliant idea's, that's when you'll know that your dream of living as a woman has finally come to pass.

[WH1SPERS]

I though you knew you were a real woman when it “made sense” for your to give up your well paid career to look after the kids. Then take a NMW job on a supermarket till that “fits around the kids”. Only to have your partner complain 5 years later that you are not pulling your weight financially.

I thought that was what made me a woman.

[Micke]

I though you knew you were a real woman when it “made sense” for your to give up your well paid career to look after the kids. Then take a NMW job on a supermarket till that “fits around the kids”. Only to have your partner complain 5 years later that you are not pulling your weight financially.

Hollow laugh through gritted teeth..

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

Or when you become invisible at ‘that age’?

[VickyEadie]

I don't really like sweet things anymore, VickyEadie, do you think that could be a sign that I'm nearing the perimenopause?

I can only speak for myself! My partner has found the same has happened to her, but only in the last few years (she had a TA hysterectomy aged 46 - is now almost 63), so that might be just 'social contagion'!

[AngryAttackKittens]

My gran loved sweets right up until she passed away in her 90s so I suspect I may be one of the ones this doesn't work on.

[CigarsofthePharoahs]

When I make pastry I roll it out on some clingfilm, which makes it much easier to transfer it into the pie dish.
Feeling pretty sodding feminine right now, I've spent two weeks with flu, finally on the mend and my period has arrived, exactly two weeks after the last one. I'm actually looking forwards to the menopause, then I know I can be done with the whole malarkey.

[VickyEadie]

I'm actually looking forwards to the menopause, then I know I can be done with the whole malarkey.

Don't be too hasty...

Menopause feckin' awful, in my experience - and I had 11 day periods, with pain that was just dreadful, every 23 days.

[Nudibranch]

"A few loud TERFs"

They really refuse to accept that the vast majority of the population don't agree that "trans women are women". It's not simply a "radfem" point of view. It's what everyday men and women believe.

[FloralBunting]

Frankly, early peri-menopause has been a time of losing all desire for sugar and so much increased desire for, ahem, other pursuits that I've found myself trying desperately to control my train of thought when an extremely handsome visiting priest took Mass some months ago.

I would gladly swap a bit of treacle tart overload for a libido like a speedboat on rocket fuel, tbh.

[OlennasWimple]

DD told me today that I must hate her. My heinous crime? I insisted that she had to finish tidying her room before she could watch Teen Titans

This Redditor sounds just as petulant as an 8 yo who hasn't got their own way, and reasons it must be because someone hates them

[Coyoacan]

Sorry, I'm working so no time to read all the comments, I just wanted to say that I find the accusation of not being capable of thinking for myself and only voicing ideas that someone else gave me to be a particularly fine example of toxic masculinity.

[Weezol]

I'm good at pastry but awful at all other forms of womanning.

[Illyria47]

Micke
My sister (who also comments on Mumsnet) and I were brought up in Kent, nobody else except us Kentish folk seem to know what Gypsy Tart is. Mum made it as did the Cook in Junior School. Naturally there was a rush for seconds. A very fond memory.

[DancelikeEmmaGoldman]

I’d happily accept a good recipe for almond tart.

As for women talking about women things? This woman has spent two days talking about livestock watering systems, and crawling around under tanks connecting up pipes.

Feminine enough for you whiny, little fuckers and your whiny little friends?

Look kids. Get out of the house. Have a conversation about something other than yourself with someone new. Get a job. Deactivate your GoFundMe. Wear whatever the fuck you like, but do it outside in the fresh air. Pay your bills, finish your education, vow off selfies and go cold turkey on Tumblr.

Then when you have something substantial to talk about, which is not your navel, come back. Bring recipes and a sense of humour. A small gauge poly cutter would also be useful.

[Illyria47]

Of course, we are pretty ancient now, in those days the School provided a hot meal at lunchtime, meat and veg etc plus the pudding. Subsidized for families on low incomes which was us.
I don't remember a concerted rush for seconds when it was Tapioca pudding!