Bunburying and wassailing into winter - thread 7

[CaraDuneRedux]

Time for a new thread. Please can someone c&p the header post? (Am on phone.)

@Wrongsideofhistorymyarse

The antenatal group stating that men get pregnant too.

I'm getting confused about the rules of this new doctrine. Ben Cohen just targeted the LGB alliance on twitter for not being pro commercial surrogacy, which he implied was against male couples... Because (he implies) men can't get pregnant?!

My head is going to explode trying the mental gymnastics

The best response was the person who said "if every women in the world identified as a man, would you still find a way to exploit their wombs?"

Mumofgirls none of this is logical.

@Wrongsideofhistorymyarse

Mumofgirls none of this is logical.

No, but it is tedious and frustrating how they can deny sex when it comes to women's rights, and then uphold it when it comes to men's.

I've noticed that typo "a women" crop up again recently. I'm leaning towards coincidence but still... it does seem to happen with certain types of poster?

Sxheavy moderation going on already...is it a Friday thing?

Whisky please
Large enough to knock me out
Hangover be damned

[Pours midge a bucketful] want a chaser? Cigarettes? Ketamine?

@midgedude

Whisky please Large enough to knock me out Hangover be damned

FFS I'm joining you and I hope I pass out before I give in to that Part 3 AIBU.

I am still a lurker at heart and read through threads from start to finish.

I also see a huge value in bringing matters to wider attention.

But I am asking myself: at this particular time, with so many consultations near deadline, am I allowing myself to be distracted from doing something that would have more bang for the buck?

(As I wrote that I wondered if it had some sleazy connotation to be avoided but I checked and it doesn't. Thank heavens because I always thought it was to do with fireworks. It's not, but it's not dodgy either.)

Wakes clutching head....thanks all

Although I am finding it interesting that these are in AIBU and a year ago would have gone " go back to the feminist board none of us care "

Just posted on this thread seconds ago and looking back it’s now been zapped www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4150901-To-think-that-third-spaces-might-be-a-compromise-for-men-who-believe-they-are-women

We need to be able to talk about this stuff!!!

So I’ll have a Bloody Mary please since it’s 8am.

Whoa Chatty!!

Obviously we cannot have too many escapees. Otherwise it might seem like, you know, not only regulars on this part of the forum are concerned. I mean, that would destroy the argument that we are the only people on MN, the country, the planet who cares about such a niche, major, all encompassing, issue.

It would totally show that argument like so many are pure bollocks!

Inflammatory title
Use transwomen not men who believe

Mn have left the AIBU threads quite loose and will be getting flack

Totally bloody agree with you there

Oh I didn’t realise the above was inflammatory. But these matters are clearly worth talking about for women in AIBU too and there does seem to be an awful lot of inflammatory there to be sure. Should mn publish a list of expressions and words which we can’t use, rather than waiting till we wrong think /speak? I kind of thought more or less anything was acceptable in AIBU. Perhaps someone could reframe the wording and repost that thread.

mole I would really like to believe that all our submissions eg to the various enquiries were considered...the fact that some don’t even get published makes me wonder if the buck is just being passed, without much bang at all. However we still need to do them, you are right.

mole is there a part 3?!

Now I'm intrigued. What then is the origin of the phrase more bang for your buck?

It was a catchy way to say that nuclear weapons are cheaper per enemy killed than soldiers are.

Variously attributed, some time during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, 1953.

www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/more-bang-for-your-buck.html

Datun - thank you! 😘

Wordsinourmouths - no - just a two-parter because I exceeded the character count when I tried to put it all in one post

And another one gone.

Apparently discussion of YouTubers making offensive and untrue claims about women's health issues is not allowed.

We still have the one. If we keep it focused on just what was wrong with the statement , it might stand.

Everytime I read it, I hear Magdalen in my head saying ‘fuck of you **er’.

@CaraDuneRedux

And another one gone.

Apparently discussion of YouTubers making offensive and untrue claims about women's health issues is not allowed.

It's a shame that's gone. It was very enlightening to read the interview with said youtuber that was linked on there. Their statement all started to make sense after reading that.