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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

MN in the Guardian

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theDudesmummy · 11/05/2024 08:57

This whole article is rather grating me and I can't put my finger on exactly why. Sneering at FWR while saying she steers clear of it? The "damning with faint praise" tone of it? The silliness and missing the point of calling out an "obsession with public toilets"? I got a real anti-feminist, "little women's problems" vibe from the article.
Or am I wrong?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/11/mumsnet-flaws-experience-parenting?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Mumsnet has its flaws, but the depth of experience shared on it is extraordinary | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

From allergies to hen do beefs, the parenting site’s users cover it all. I just wish they wouldn’t use the word ‘hubby’, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/11/mumsnet-flaws-experience-parenting?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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RoyalCorgi · 12/05/2024 11:02

I've always understood CF to be cheeky fucker.

The D in DH, DC, DD etc is something I've always understood to be a jokingly ironic shorthand way of referring to one's loved ones. Nobody in real life says "dear husband/darling husband", do they?

NeverDropYourMooncup · 12/05/2024 11:05

Oblomov24 · 12/05/2024 10:46

I don't like the tone and style of her article, and I don't think she frequents the site often, if she did she'd know literally no one uses the word hubby apart from in jest.

With the amount of knowledge of other threads and details, I think it's a deliberate insertion for plausible deniability - 'no, of course I'm not a Mumsnetter - I only lurk didn't inhale, to use my earlier analogy and of course I wouldn't read the FWR posts, they're all scary bigots<tinkly laugh, head tilted to one side>. Some of my Mummy friends have said that the SEND boards have been useful, though'.

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