Is Stonewall advertising on Mumsnet?

[AmusedBoosh]

Because I find it highly amusing if they are. Thanks for the funding

Maybe Twitter people should tell Stonewall to “do better” and express how”disappointed” they are in a really passive aggressive way.

Am I the only one seeing the advert is under a bunch of threads which are all bar one about female biology?

Is the ad generated by Google. In the same way that adverts for gay cruises used to pop up.

If so, epic fail.

Do they pay extra for click throughs?

Reading late at night is a bad move, I just read this as "do they pay extra for dicks though?"

Share the right wing evangelical funding with Stonewall, click more for dollars, I will be passing on my account for commission shortly.

I've always intensely disliked the use of baby blue and pink for a 'civil rights' flag. Not only because of the regressive, mid-20th century sexist stereotyping of it being "Blue for boys, and pink for girls", which, importantly is how their activists also explain it.

I mean, look at other (pre-Tumblr) Pride flags- Our Lesbian flag is strong with the labrys on purple and black stripes, the Rainbow flag is bold, as is every other flag of any group fighting for rights and liberation.
Being careful how I say this, but no one else uses soft pastels, no one else uses colours immediately associated with small children and children's nurseries, and no one else, I would think, would be describing our flags with infantilising references to 'boys', rather than men, and 'girls' rather than women. As a lesbian who noticed our L,G, and B communities were just told, not asked if we wanted our organisations suddenly in coalition with the 'T', it's made me extremely uncomfortable to be linked in the public mind with...that.

@TheGreatWave

Hang on, I thought that MN was a cesspool of transphobia and that any company advertising on the platform was therefore transphobic and should distance themselves, otherwise the company would be boycotted and have to deal with a lot of emails.

Come on then, start giving Stonewall the same treatment as the GMB union, it is only right and fair to do so.

I'm sure the usual 'folk' are composing their angry tweets as we speak to ask how Stonewall can align themselves with such mean witches as us.

Guilt by association and all that, isn't that how it works these days? Everything regarding JK Rowling at the moment seems to suggest that.

Thanks for the link, Highame - great article! It's getting harder and harder to understand what the missing rights are...

@testing987654321

Do they pay extra for click throughs?

Reading late at night is a bad move, I just read this as "do they pay extra for dicks though?"

🤣 Yes,, I think they do.

Same ad has started popping up on the grauniad site. Less surprising to see it there in its natural home.

How could they give money to Mumsnet? Shameful

I don't get why they'd pay for extra dicks, surely they have enough?

I've always intensely disliked the use of baby blue and pink for a 'civil rights' flag. Not only because of the regressive, mid-20th century sexist stereotyping of it being "Blue for boys, and pink for girls", which, importantly is how their activists also explain it

I only just got that. I thought the pink was a derivation of the original colour for gay men/rights.

Here is a complete guide to Pride flags.

www.pride.com/pride/2018/6/13/complete-guide-queer-pride-flags-0#media-gallery-media-10

Note the subtle snidey put-down in respect to the lesbian flag.

The first time I came across the labrys as a symbol of female empowerment was way before 1999.
It was on a Greek red-figure pot, in the hand of Clytemnestra, striding into Agamemnon’s bath house with a serious expression.
He sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia before setting off for Troy.
She waited 10 years for him, and slaughtered him on his return.

I remember the labrys, I'm desperately trying to remember any flags. The women's flag was either all purple or suffragette colours.

Do you think Stonewall are here to pick up supporters?

Or perhaps to persuade Mums that safeguarding is silly nonsense, or maybe TWAW, or even looking here for the kindness we women are famed for?

Men really, really love flags.

I'm reminded a little of 'What colour is your handkerchief?' a little myself :)

Demisexual: someone who needs to feel an emotional connection with a partner before they can be sexually attracted. So that's what I am - who knew?!

As opposed to "anything with a pulse" attraction? Funny, there was no flag for that... 🤔

😂😂

I thought demi meant partially or half size?

It looks to me like it's meant to look as if Mumsnet are making the statement. It doesn't say who the "we" referred to is and the website shown at the bottom of the advert doesn't show which organisation the advert is from.

Perhaps it's part of the apology package from MN to a certain person whose feelings were hurt yesterday. They cherry-picked part of my post and quoted it on their Twitter where the usual nasty things were imagined about me in the comments.

I was quite flattered though I felt a little guilty for making trouble, but hey, the patriarchy won't smash itself, amiright?

Will stonewalls have to now boycott themselves?

I periodically click through it a few times and click/linger on a few things on the site.

Every penny helps 😂

@Binglebong

I spotted that too.

I don't know the individual set up of course but with paid for links they usually can see what you went on to do: how long you stay on the page, where you clicked after, if you made purchases etc. Companies such as mumsnet use that info to show it's not a pointless click, that people using the link result in sales or info read so they can provide evidence it's worth the money. I'm not aware of anyone getting email or IP addresses and I would be surprised if that happens.

I'm not worried about what data an advertiser can get from me, but if you are, you probably can't go into your privacy settings and change them. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3995461-Cant-see-or-update-privacy-settings

I notice the careful hijack of tye suffragettes flag too.