Women and girls' sex-based rights

[StephanieSuperpowers]

Well, here we are...

I may get a new dehumidifier. The winter thread was excellent. happy to hear your news, Gin! Hi also to yum and otraynor and others I know, and sinner.

As a newbie can somebody explain to me why I can post here when I'm on my desktop but not when I'm on the app, despite being logged in on the app?

It would be a terrible derail to demand to know whether salted or sweet, so I will have to go and do my own research.

Posting on the app isn't obvious - there's no box. You have to click the plus sign, then choose the post option, then you get a box.

I'd ask on 'site stuff'.

Someone will ask you technical questions and sort you out.

I never use the app, I don't really like it as it seems really fiddly and flaky.

I just use the mobile site. Which I find works perfectly well.

Correction, plus sign then 'reply'.

Welcome new people 🍹🍹 I thought it suddenly seemed crowded!

I hope you stay and join in 😊

(and that none of you have weird taste in weetabix!)

I saw another poster on here rebuff a “be kind” post from a visitor with “you first!” Summed the problem up in a nutshell for me. Why are women always expected to yield?

Thanks Bint - much appreciated.

@murasaki I dunno, it still seems dominated by angry middle aged men who, despite getting want they wanted, still seem to be angry.

Maybe, in the due course of time we could open a thread in chat, or similar, called something like "JTT friends chat 1", which we can keep up with each on, and then integrate seamlessly 😀with specific topics, like FWR.

angry middle aged men who, despite getting want they wanted, still seem to be angry.

Now what does that remind me of...?

Good idea, Crabby.

BTW, the line break thing seems to be a Samsung problem. Someone else has already asked about it in Site Stuff.

Hmm, I'm posting on a Samsung phone and don't get that issue.

I am using the mobile site though, not the app.

Thinking of tech advice makes me
suggest searching out (you’ll need to use advanced search for any real searches) the thread in Classics where a possibly well-meaning young man came on to offer women any help they might need with computeryness technical tricky stuff.

I'm also using the mobile site. App doesn't do the line break thing, but is deeply un-user-friendly in other ways. And very purple.

Which strongly suggests that the need is being met by performing a lot of angry behaviour. It's the end in itself.

Welcome to all the lifeboaters! I am completely unaware of The Other Place but it sounds like you've had a crap time so I hope you find a new home here.

In terms of the usability of this site - I switched over to the app because the desktop site was crashing too often for me but I'm still not quite familiar with the app capabilities (I miss the pages - it was so much easier to say 'my post on page...!).

How very thoughtful, Plastic, I'm sure his kind offer was well received.

What nobody seems to have noticed (include Site Owner himself) is that it's clear from his "main" post that his ire was directed not at us sinners as such but at the (unspecified) people who had failed to drive us out. So the first thing is that we clearly exacerbated that horribly by quietly decamping instead of waiting to be burned.

But the second thing is that he (they) was actually saying "stop me looking at what they say! If I look at what they say it makes me, it makes me, I can't explain what it makes me think, so it makes me angry!"

People didn't burn witches when they were feeling happy and fat after a good harvest. They burned them when their (sacred) cows died.

New Scientist reported a very interesting bit of research some years back about radicalisation. It found that in most cases people went from: have belief -> belief becomes extreme as person is radicalsied -> develops into anger/violence. But in a subset (at that time specifically far right men) the anger came first, and they found a cause to attach it to.

Indeed. Yes again, apologies to Mumsnet regulars because we are still stumbling around finding each other, and still a bit in a state of shock.

Apparently my Google is broken so I have absolutely no idea where you have all come from but hello and welcome one and all. I'm sorry that your previous home is no longer welcoming you.

I don't care if you are male or female, childless, childfree or have millions of the little beggars, all I ask is that you don't try to gaslight me by saying women have a certain appendage between their legs.

Oh...and I like kittens and cake and property porn. I look forward to reading about a certain thread thats been mentioned in here 😉

@Pixiedust1234 your post may cause a bit of confusion as there is a well-established poster in the old place with your username!