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Some bearded American pillocks are objecting to the idea of Mumsnetters talking about feminism. Hadley Freeman and other feminists are doing an excellent job of responding.

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If you're a bloke and your name begins with M, and you're lurking on here.... at least two people you know are aware that you do this....

As if anyone gives a shit what Americans think.

These men - they would get on really well with the Taliban with their outrage that women can have opinions of their own.

Not so progressive really.

@theemperorhasnoclothes

These men - they would get on really well with the Taliban with their outrage that women can have opinions of their own.

Not so progressive really.

Yep

🇺🇸👋☕Pull up a chair ladies from across the pond. Nice to see you.

You only have to see the knuckle staggers having a go at Nazanin for daring to ‘contradict’ her husband— how very dare she!!!

We should have a Mumsnet day out. They're always fun.

Women talking about our interests, rights and needs, without male supervision. Oh dear, what is the world coming to, these days. /deadpan

@theemperorhasnoclothes

These men - they would get on really well with the Taliban with their outrage that women can have opinions of their own.

Not so progressive really.

For lefty men not having any understanding of the status of women, the history of women and so on proves no hindrance on opining on this and similar questions. I thought that hilarious when I first came online, but now I am exhausted by it.

in 2021, little interest compared to the 4 (?) threads on Maya F's hearing that have clocked up hundreds of posts each

Heaven forfend women following and discussing a live legal case that they are interested in, I mean how very dare they there's washing up to be done.

Take your misogyny, sexism and desperate attempts to control and police the speech and thoughts of women on here and shove it where the sun don't shine.

MNHQ has a habit of moving any trans issues to the feminism boards so it becomes skewed. Feminism on Mumsnet isn't restricted to trans issues, it's just that the boards aren't used in the way these Twitter users think. Plenty of feminism related topics all over the site.

perhaps we should ask them to get moved onto the feminism boards? It bugs me that it is full of trans stuff which doesn't interest me as much as things like the gender pay gap and the things that Invisible Women covers

The beardy blokes on twitter remind me of this quote from Gavin de Becker (The Gift of Fear) talking about why women should ignore their socialisation and be less kind to protect their safety

"When a man says no in this culture [USA], it’s the end of the discussion. When a woman says no, it’s the beginning of a negotiation."

We ain't negotiating - we're just saying no.

That comes as a hell of a shock to some men.

We ain't negotiating - we're just saying no.

That comes as a hell of a shock to some men.

I think it comes as a shock to them that we imagine we have any right to a say at all.

Absolutely Mumsnet radicalized me! You know what else it did? It introduced me to a group of like minded women who I am still friends with 10 years on and we all still chat on a daily basis in a private Facebook group. We have all supported each other through infertility, childbirth, struggles with breastfeeding, the joys of toddlers, forays into school as well as cheating spouses, mental health issues, the death of parents and a myriad other issues.

Mumsnet empowers women, of course The Beards are afraid of it!

Started a thread. Maybe in the right spot, maybe not. Might be a failure but I'll try.

“Muster point for new US posters directed here by noisy Twitter storm.”

You should definitely nick the suggestion of ‘Terfing USA’ off this thread if your thread gets legs and you spill over into a new one LostTxn.

@LittleGwyneth

Makes me so angry. I don't always agree with how trans issues are discussed here, but MN is one of the few places in the world where women are prioritised. It's a genuine safe space, a place where you can ask anything and get advice about anything. It's amazing how angry that makes certain people.

The other place I can think of is Lipstick Alley who are, coincidentally, also big in supporting women to expect more from relationships, leave abusive men, and maintain single sex spaces.

For lefty men not having any understanding of the status of women, the history of women and so on proves no hindrance on opining on this and similar questions. I thought that hilarious when I first came online, but now I am exhausted by it.

Not just lefty men, although they are definitely the worst, any men telling woman who they are, what they are, how they should think, behave, speak and what they must accept are beyond contempt as are the women who cheer them on.

perhaps we should ask them to get moved onto the feminism boards? It bugs me that it is full of trans stuff which doesn't interest me as much as things like the gender pay gap and the things that Invisible Women covers

MNHQ created this division by splitting Feminism Chat (all issues) into Feminism Chat and Feminism Sex and Gender. Topics of more general interest that are started on S&G are moved onto Feminism Chat. Topics started on Feminism Chat get moved to S&G the moment that women are involved although it's not the sex/gender dichotomy.

There was a thread last week that was in and out of AIBU and Feminism S&G. It's absurd at times but we have a discussion space. If the Online Harms Bill succeeds women may rapidly find that we don't have readily accessible spaces to discuss that things that affect us because the spaces will be so easily censored and closed down. (Just look at the latest thread about the campaign for continued access to medical abortions.)

Why do people (i.e. men) find it so surprising that women (the original cunty type) who are trying to conceive, are pregnant, recovering from a miscarriage or still birth, struggling with infertility, or have had children might think that biology is very real and very important. We can see the direct impact of what our sex class means and how we are treated for being biological women.

Mumsnet – come for the discussion on nappy rash, stay for the radical feminist discourse.

Mumslife

I can't help but imagine Justine pissing herself laughing at the depictions of her as literally the devil incarnate

The hate coming off that thread is incredible!

1. I’ve never seen 95% of the trans type topics on MN, and I’m here ALOT. And have been for 15 years. Certainly never seen them all one one day / week etc. Vast majority of us have much broader interests!

2. right wing… pull the other one!

3. transphobic… I think they are referring to sensibly questioning nonsense using biological facts. Y’know like science.

4. off-topic but I’m seeing sodding gambling ads on here. I thought MN was getting rid of this shite after an MNer lost her DH to gambling?

Why don't they get that the Maya threads are as much about our rights as an abortion thread, and in the case of most British women - though of course not all - currently far more pressing than the issue of abortion? Why WOULDN'T we be interested in our own rights?

I agree with all those who have said that much of the grass-roots feminism on mumsnet occurs on Relationships and of course these idiots would never bother venturing there. (And I hope they don't. They would add nothing.)

As for the tweet saying that we are all being manipulated by the Christian ultra-right - sure. Because Americans on the internet are so great at imitating the speech and vocabulary of British mums. Do they really think we wouldn't know? They probably think all those British accents in Hollywood are really accurate too.

Terfin' USA

I came for the topic, but havr to say am being thoroughly entertained by these song-related quips. Encore!

@GingerPCatt

Why do people (i.e. men) find it so surprising that women (the original cunty type) who are trying to conceive, are pregnant, recovering from a miscarriage or still birth, struggling with infertility, or have had children might think that biology is very real and very important. We can see the direct impact of what our sex class means and how we are treated for being biological women.

Mumsnet – come for the discussion on nappy rash, stay for the radical feminist discourse.

Mumslife

Yes,

I have said this before, but only one of the three axes of oppression which affect the largest numbers of people: sex, race and class, is currently being erased, and that is sex. Probably because it is mostly female people who are harmed by that erasure.

All other 'identities' must be respected, but not identities based on living as a biological female.