Women and girls' sex-based rights

[StephanieSuperpowers]

Well, here we are...

This is my regular MN name, but I wanted to wave to denizens of the other board. I didn't really post on the topic there, but can't really countenance the idea that you're not allowed to, so here I am (sibb).

Fwiw I regularly post on other FWR threads too.

Apparently it's non of our business. Mouldies all over again.

Anyway, This is a really good feminist section on mumsnet, jump right in but as a pp said read the rules first 👍

Welcome.

Help yourselves.

@VestofAbsurdity I'm a long-timer on MN and I hope.. no, I know the new people will settle in and contribute and disperse into the normal threads. They're good 'uns. I think everyone is just a bit shell-shocked right now. (Also, as others have said, many of us were already MNers).

(Now wondering if I should NC back to my usual name to avoid adding to the impression of a sea of unfamiliar names).

If the posters here want to keep this thread as an almost club until they feel more comfortable joining in then that's OK. Its an awful feeling not being able to talk about your experiences of being a woman in todays society in what you thought was a supportive space. To be silenced is what we are fighting against.

Thanks for the welcome, regular Mumsnet posters! Have had a log in for various pregnancy/parenting stuff but discussed women’s rights elsewhere. Hope we will integrate well, and thanks for the life raft.

@BlackeyedGruesome thanks, tea and cake is just the ticket!

I'll just add that there are posters in the "old place" who are writing things absolutely proving to me that I was right to say goodbye. I wrote an honest post explaining why I felt I had to leave and how sad I was to go, and wishing the place well, but having seen their righteous sneering response I now feel somewhat less sad. I still wish them well though, because I don't want to sink to their level.

Kuc, your post was moving in the extreme. While you described some particular circumstances relevant to just you, some were relevant many, and it reminded me of times I'd cried for help and got it, so the whole post resonated. And the sneers were just as you say.

The edit function is.slmetjing we will miss though! Relevant to many, obviously...

If the posters here want to keep this thread as an almost club until they feel more comfortable joining in then that's OK.

Fair enough, but it would stop confusion if that was explicit in the thread title and opening post.

All new posters are always more than welcome here the more voices the merrier but running a thread as if it is just a members only club is a bit discourteous.

I hope it's just a gathering point then posters spread their wings, as you say, it isn't right to set up a.club! There are so.many interesting threads across the boards here, and this folder has been very educational for me personally. Particularly re the reporting on court cases, e.g Maya, Allison etc.

It's not really a private member's club. It is a temporary rallying point for those of us who are already here to give a bit of handhold to those arriving. who feel they need to leave their online community in order to stop the site owner closing the entire site.

I appreciate that the thread title is confusing but it is the name of the thread that we were all corralled into (more widely known as the thread of hate by those who never bloody read the thing)

Maybe @mumsnet could add "lifeboat from the" at the start of the title.

@VestofAbsurdity Apologies, and I see why it comes across that way. I would have done exactly the same as @StephanieSuperpowers because of the shock, but hopefully once we’ve taken stock we’ll be a positive addition either through this thread with regular Mumsnet posters joining us, or, as I suspect is more likely, we’ll gradually disperse and join in with other threads.

Having said that hello to all the newbies. I wasn't a regular poster but I lurked for years.

I'm sorry you feel that you have to leave but there is a great community here. We don't all agree on everything, there are regular bun fights but for the most part we can discuss our views.

I was once a regular on the board you recently decamped from, having taken refuge there after the plug was unceremoniously pulled on GUT on a Friday night. I followed a link from the AIBU thread on the other place to MN and never looked back. I see names I recognise on here from time to time and wonder if they’re the same posters. You will find plenty of great conversation on here and humour. There are many thoughtful, well informed posters and things sometimes go off topic in surprising but wholly pleasing ways. Once you’ve settled in, do check out some of the other topics. There is breadth aplenty. Enough said. Suffice it to say, I think you’ll soon feel at home here. 🙂

Solidarity to you all.

<hands out blankets and brandy>

There is breadth aplenty.

I'm taking that personally.

Arf! 😂

I don't know who you are, where you've come from or why, but I'm pretty sure we're on the same side, and so I welcome you all.

I hear Liam Neeson’s voice when I read this post for some reason.

For our new arrivals, you will feel the loss of the edit button keenly. And the hide poster function. There’s the preview button to check your posts if errors annoy you but you have to cultivate a different skillset for the bad faith visitors this board gets. The Bunbury threads (use search) have useful strategies in the opening post.

I am sure you will be a positive addition, the water here is warm!

But do read the Talk Guidelines and the specific Special Guidelines for this Board that only operate in this section or you will find yourselves tripped up/deleted/reported and not know why. You will find yourselves having to make oblique references at times as this Board is public, I hope you get the gist of what I am saying.

Would any newcomers like to view a petition thread?

www.mumsnet.com/talk/petitions_noticeboard/4685349-justice-for-courtney-ellis-aged-14-killed-by-a-driver-going-93mph-in-a-30mph-zone?reply=121811362

😀

hi all 🙋🏻‍♂️