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What are your most useful/memorable threads on FWR?

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ArabellaScott · 17/06/2021 10:58

Some have been archived -

  • Break it down for me
  • It never happens resource thread

Any others you would nominate for saving for posterity?

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highame · 17/06/2021 16:35

DialSquare that was one of my favourites too. It meanders through with both side splitting fun and good information. Poster names that no longer appear Flowers

How could a thread about absolutely bloody nothing end up being so good. However, it just shows how desperate we were for positive information that we would keep checking in for days. In just a year, we get positive stuff on a regular basis.

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ArabellaScott · 17/06/2021 16:36

thanks, 334bu. Noted.

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ArabellaScott · 17/06/2021 19:06

Magic, highame, ta.

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ArabellaScott · 17/06/2021 19:06

Oh, god, THAT one!! Grin

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DialSquare · 17/06/2021 19:08

Agreed highame. It felt like a load of women in a room having a good chat.

Thelnebriati · 17/06/2021 20:44

The trans widows threads.

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ArabellaScott · 17/06/2021 21:22

[taking notes]

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MarshaBradyo · 17/06/2021 21:24

Where we listened to HoL decision

Found it very moving and good. I wouldn’t have known about it otherwise.

SuperLemonCrush · 17/06/2021 21:31

The one about the “who had access to the flat” (allegory about women’s spaces). Can’t remember all details but it was funny, illuminating and had very revealing comments from posters who thought it was a real-life scenario.

LangClegsInSpace · 17/06/2021 22:03

Yes, all the trans widow threads.

LangClegsInSpace · 17/06/2021 22:10

The threads about Jane Garvey's Woman's Hour proximity talks debates from a couple of years ago.

I think this was the first one but there were 4 or 6 altogether:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3428918-Womans-Hour-Tues-20-11-18-Why-is-the-current-debate-about-sex-and-gender-so-often-called-toxic-we-hear-from-Bex-Stinson-and-helenlewis

R0wantrees · 17/06/2021 22:14

This is a fun one and timely given the current football focus
(I still have my #ManFriday team Sporticus T shirt):
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3282452-A-temporary-cessation-of-hostilities

This had a profound effect on me:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3412053-Mumsnet-FWR-Guide-to-De-Programming-Yourself-From-Self-Harming-Kindness

This one is very useful:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3463920-Lets-go-back-to-2007

ScreamingBeans · 17/06/2021 22:17

All those cognitive dissonance ones. They were great

Thelnebriati · 17/06/2021 22:44

3 strikes and you're out
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3281582-3-strikes-and-youre-out

Interesting thread from when the 3 strikes rule was introduced, and posters had to ask Mumsnet to put the rules as a sticky at the top of FWR.

R0wantrees · 17/06/2021 23:01

July 3rd 2018
Launch of the government consultation on self-id and in response to Penny Mordant's comment, “transwomen are women”

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3295603-A-woman-is-an-adult-female-human

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3297067-Mumsnet-moderation-response-to-yesterdays-feedback

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3297184-Your-comments-for-Penny-Mordaunt

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ArabellaScott · 17/06/2021 23:07

Thanks, R0, this is all brilliant. The archive site is not letting me do anymore tonight, but I will keep saving useful resources when I can.

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R0wantrees · 17/06/2021 23:37

Arabella many thanks Wine

stumbledin · 17/06/2021 23:47

I think this is a really bad idea.

Its not a competition.

Quite honestly if there was a thread with only a couple of comments on and it made at least one woman feel better about herself / her situation that is far, far more important than some of the endless threads which quite honestly end up with some sort of excessive display of which one of us can show we are more distressed / outraged / angry .

I am actually quite shocked that anyone would think this is a sisterly thing to do.

And, as someone said up thread, if there is a thread that is actually a resource, which I doubt because the structure of the forum doesn't allow, you wouldn't want to advertise it.

What would be more useful is some sort of indexing.

Quite honestly if i see one more thread with someone saying are we allowed single sex spaces I think I might just give up. Because it clearly shows that all the effort to share and impart information just doesn't work.