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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

is mumsnet a safe space for me?

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rexrabbit · 04/02/2025 21:04

would you say mumsnet these days is a safe space for a non-transphobic lesbian with children to hang out?

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GailBlancheViola · 04/02/2025 22:29

ShredHead · 04/02/2025 22:23

I can handle it. I identify as both stylish and beautiful 😂.

Good luck!!!!

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2025 22:30

Healthyban · 04/02/2025 22:21

boiledbeetle I am honored! Your posts always amuse!
please help yourself to tea, and a biscuit or three. I will be in my safe space having a soothing massage as befits my name.

<looks around>
<Takes whole packet of biscuits>

Thanks for the tea. But you forgot to put the biscuits out.

FaithFables · 04/02/2025 22:30

Miaowzabella · 04/02/2025 21:45

You cannot safely assume that any anonymous internet forum will be a 'safe space', especially if you can't deal with the possibility that not everyone will share your assumptions.

Ooops quoted the wrong post. Soz!

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 04/02/2025 22:30

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2025 22:25

Builders strength do you? Or are you a just wave a teabag in the vicinity of the cup strength person?

Builder's is good.
DH was a builder so I kind of got used to the tea.

And the building.

FenellaFeldman · 04/02/2025 22:31

GailBlancheViola · 04/02/2025 22:25

You wouldn't get out alive, Boiledbeetle.

Whispers - I own many toilet brushes too, but keep it just between us.

Those toilet brush threads 😮.
One woman posted that she buys dozens at a time and uses them once before throwing them away.
That got robust responses.

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2025 22:31

Maaate · 04/02/2025 22:23

Tell them that you clean it in the dishwasher 😜

Nice! Like your thinking. I won't tell them I don't actually own a dishwasher though!

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 04/02/2025 22:32

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2025 22:30

<looks around>
<Takes whole packet of biscuits>

Thanks for the tea. But you forgot to put the biscuits out.

That's because I ate them all.

<runs guiltily off thread>

Maaate · 04/02/2025 22:32

Oodiks · 04/02/2025 22:26

What's the problem with toilet brushes? How else do you clean the toilet?

I make my husband and kids poo in the garden so the bowl is never bismirched

Loub1987 · 04/02/2025 22:32

I feel quite marginalised on MumsNet because a chicken only lasts one meal in my household. Totally get what you mean @rexrabbit.

AnneLovesGilbert · 04/02/2025 22:33

Loub1987 · 04/02/2025 22:32

I feel quite marginalised on MumsNet because a chicken only lasts one meal in my household. Totally get what you mean @rexrabbit.

Spare a thought for those of us who have never and would never eat a chicken. Where do we fit in?

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 04/02/2025 22:34

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2025 22:31

Nice! Like your thinking. I won't tell them I don't actually own a dishwasher though!

Neither do I.
Despite being married to a builder and having a criminal record for biscuit appropriation.

FenellaFeldman · 04/02/2025 22:34

I'm very marginalised because I answer the front door. Even if I'm not expecting anyone.

FenellaFeldman · 04/02/2025 22:34

AnneLovesGilbert · 04/02/2025 22:33

Spare a thought for those of us who have never and would never eat a chicken. Where do we fit in?

Solidarity ✊

Shodan · 04/02/2025 22:35

I've acksherly identified all of the Mumsnet space as my personal space, which means that everyone is literally invading my personal space, which is deeply uncool, not to mention unsafe.

Entrance fee to my personal space (phnaar) is one fire-breathing dragon and one evil octopus, pleaseandthankyouverymuch.

(no biscuits allowed here, because despite dieting for two whole days I have not yet managed to lose the two stone I want rid of)

JanesLittleGirl · 04/02/2025 22:36

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2025 22:25

Builders strength do you? Or are you a just wave a teabag in the vicinity of the cup strength person?

Teabag! Teabag! Teapot with one for each person and one for the pot. Leave for at least 10 minutes for the leaves to realise their flavour then pour. If there isn't a slight brown scum floating in the cup then you didn't leave it in the pot long enough.

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2025 22:36

EmpressaurusKitty · 04/02/2025 22:26

Tell the Litter Tray that you’re buying a cat from Gumtree as your 5 year old’s birthday present, & intend to let her have just one litter.

Your screen might melt, but you’ll still be safer than I’d feel if I went to Pride in my LGB Alliance T-shirt.

😂

I could just tell them that one of my cats is actually the neighbours and instead of taking her back home AGAIN, I gave up, fed her and now she snuggles on my shoulder each night purring sweet nothings to me and hasn't gone home since! (True story)

ShredHead · 04/02/2025 22:36

I remember when Cif was actually Jif.
So is that cis Cif?

ArabellaScott · 04/02/2025 22:37

Loub1987 · 04/02/2025 22:32

I feel quite marginalised on MumsNet because a chicken only lasts one meal in my household. Totally get what you mean @rexrabbit.

But ... how?! Even a large chicken will have a carcass that must be boiled up, and you can't do it all in one sitting. Unless you were boiling the carcass while eating the first tranche of chicken, and then having some kind of cold chicken bits for pudding/backwards starters, and then doing the chicken-liquid-based course while that digested, in an extended and very chicken-heavy kind of banquet.

Or unless you have many dragons to feed, I suppose. And who knows what their chicketiquette is like.

theilltemperedqueenofspacetime · 04/02/2025 22:37

Boiledbeetle · 04/02/2025 22:10

Blaze!

My dragon name is bloody "Blaze"

I'm never going to live that down with the other dragons

Edited

Same. WTF? Sounds like a pony 🙁

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 04/02/2025 22:38

ShredHead · 04/02/2025 22:36

I remember when Cif was actually Jif.
So is that cis Cif?

Transjif, I believe.

ArabellaScott · 04/02/2025 22:38

ShredHead · 04/02/2025 22:36

I remember when Cif was actually Jif.
So is that cis Cif?

That's an ex-cif-tential question.

Oodiks · 04/02/2025 22:38

Maaate · 04/02/2025 22:32

I make my husband and kids poo in the garden so the bowl is never bismirched

Seems sensible

RumNotRun · 04/02/2025 22:39

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 04/02/2025 21:36

I've got a cat. Or two.
Are either of them acceptable alternatives for beetles, which I daresay the cats would eat given half the chance

Edited

TBF one of your cats could probably take down a dragon.

EmpressaurusKitty · 04/02/2025 22:39

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 04/02/2025 22:34

Neither do I.
Despite being married to a builder and having a criminal record for biscuit appropriation.

I think someone should warn Linney & Gizmo to appropriate as many biscuits as they can before they’re replaced by beetles.

ShredHead · 04/02/2025 22:39

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 04/02/2025 22:38

Transjif, I believe.

😂

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