Recruit spies from Mumsnet!

HalfBakedJake said:
Can you imagine an army of mums from mumsnet attacking you with their little side businesses like Forever Living and WeightWatchers.
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Hahahahahahaha.

I've read/heard a lot about mumsnet, but never actually checker what there is there. So I went on there. I see that the main website is about women......well, pregnancy. It's like a women's life starts and stops at pregnancy. Oh well, up to them. So I went into the forums. I swear, it is just full of pregnancy talk, except when I found this section: Feminism.

Great! I'm sure that the best posts will be there.

We were watching a tv show last night presented by Stephen Mulhern. I wasn't paying ever so much attention but then he mentioned another show, The Jump, and my ears *****ed up because I watched some of that and thought some of the contestants were really brave. He introduced this woman who had been on that show and said something like 'she was impressive on The Jump, but even more impressive was how good she made that skintight outfit look'.

It's as if it doesn't matter what she was doing. Like it's irrelevant. I called him out for it on Twitter, but instead of responding, he just blocked me from following him and seeing his tweets. Neither of which I'm interested in anyway.
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I've just been in assembly with my form (all boys school) and the head teacher named every man in the room and said "we're all giving up alcohol for lent and donating the money to charity". Then named every woman in the room and said "they're all giving up chocolate and donating the money". I'm really annoyed and don't know if I'm reading too much in to it, but surely this is a pretty good example of how our boys learn to be sexist?!
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I recently saw a thread on another forum on how there are female only chess competitions and even female only maths olympiads. There are also women only chess titles (international master, grandmaster etc) which require a much lower score or ranking than the default ones that any gender can earn. To me as a feminist this is a ****ing insult and just goes in line with the rest of the usual ''like a girl'' bs.

It also said that boys/men make up about 99% of top chess players and maths olympiad winners in the ''proper'', mixed competitions. I didn't know if the poster was trolling but after checking it looks like he was right. It's bad enough that we have to hear about how much better men are at sports and how the best female football teams in the world lose by huge margins to half-decent teenage boys, but this isn't even sports, it's ''brainy'' stuff. I think any ''girl titles'' or competitions of this sort should be banned. How else will we ever stop thinking about girls as second best when they need to have ''special'' competitions in order to win anything? ''Sorry, hun, you can't compete with the boys in the ''proper'' leagues but here's one just for you, let's see if you're good enough for a girl!'' Un****ingreal.

End rant, sorry!
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About this. So she is complaining that women need to compete in mixed competitions, but there are already mixed competitions where women do terrible, so we just need to boost women's score so they reach the level of men.

I had my eyebrows shaped today, and they commented on how dry my skin is (I know, but I'm not putting anything on it, as it's making it sore at the moment,) and advised me to have a facial, with them, obviously, and gave me a price list leaflet.

Can someone explain to me why a man's eyebrow shape is more expensive than a woman's? I've seen men with far less natural brow than I have, so it can't be like there's more work involved. Facials also have different prices for men's and women's, with the men's being more expensive. I can understand that the ayurvedic facial is differently priced than the gold facial that apparently contains pure gold, but surely the same treatment should have the same price whether on a man or a woman?

(I have no idea whether any men have treatments there. I've never seen any, but then I can go months without going into town, and even more months without having any treatments, and a £5 eyebrow shape tends to be the limit of it in any case, as I don't care about my appearance sufficiently to pay for a gold leaf facial or anything.)
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What people need to realise is that football fans are not just racist and not just sexist. They are vile abusive people full stop and it has taken racism campaigning and now feminist campaigning to highlight this. Before that, the abuse was tolerated as just one of those things, like being an obnoxious animal was perfectly natural.
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Not as bad as the Fred West conversation overheard by another poster in the pub but still wince inducing:

Took my 10 year old for a cut and settled into the corner and occupied myself with some of the edifying reading material (a choice of The Sun or The Mirror)

Bloke having his hair cut announces that he saw 'Fifty Shades of Grey' last night with the missus. He declared it boring - "You'd have thought it would 'av 'ad a better ending, like him killing her or summat" - cue laughter from the other barber and two other customers. One of the other customers remarked that it was a crap film and that "I've seem more tit in an episode of Casualty"

They then went on to make suggestive remarks about Rita Ora

Nope, I said nothing. Possibly I should have... I think I'll send dh to the barber with ds in future.

I tend to live in an insulated bubble (re who I mix with or interact with)and rarely come into contact with this kind of thing... it was a bit of a jolt tbh.
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My brain hurts.
 
I think mums are just as good as anyone else to be honest.

Selection criteria would, I hope, use profiling to perhaps prevent those with post natal depression etc being put into positions that could cause more stress.

You have to remember.. mums are graduates and educated ... and .. those that people may belittle often have views into the merky underworld of crime, and are often seen as easy targets by terrorists and criminals.

The real crime in this country is the cost of child care.
 
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I can just see it now - MI5 and 6 issuing jet Uggs, exploding lipstick, velour tracksuit bottoms that double as a parachute and razor edged throwing iPhones, not to mention Katie Price perfume that actually doubles as knockout gas.
 
Having a load of bitter old harpies responsible for our national security? Let's just invite ISIS in to take over the UK now.

Don't misunderstand that, I don't mean normal women but like GD here, there's nothing normal about Mumsnet posters.
 
what was that thread we had a while ago, wasn't it some one dumping his girlfriend or found out she had cheated or something and then there was this cross forum rivalry where they were talking about us talking about them ?
 
ikillbears said:
what was that thread we had a while ago, wasn't it some one dumping his girlfriend or found out she had cheated or something and then there was this cross forum rivalry where they were talking about us talking about them ?
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It's probably not far from the truth that these forums are the male equivalent of Mumsnet. Well GD anyway.
 
ElliorR said:
It's probably not far from the truth that these forums are the male equivalent of Mumsnet. Well GD anyway.
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In the same way that Wincanton Town FC are the southern equivalent of Manchester United. Fortunately the opinion of OCUK GD doesn't matter to anyone important whereas unfortunately the opinions of Mumsnet does :p
 
scorza said:
whereas unfortunately the opinions of Mumsnet does :p
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Except that this is totally not what is being said in the report.

They just acknowledged that the current policy of recruiting graduates doesn't give them access to certain groups within society, such as middle-aged mothers who've taken out time to bring up children. And that by widening their advertising, they may find a 'qualified' (life experience vs formal qualifications) recruit or two who would otherwise have been completely off their radar.

Mumsnet was identified as a potential route for advertising to a particular group, not specifically that it has been identified as a good source of 'qualified' candidates. And certainly no suggestion that the opinions of mumsnet are of any specific interest.
 
div0 said:
Except that this is totally not what is being said in the report.

They just acknowledged that the current policy of recruiting graduates doesn't give them access to certain groups within society, such as middle-aged mothers who've taken out time to bring up children. And that by widening their advertising, they may find a 'qualified' (life experience vs formal qualifications) recruit or two who would otherwise have been completely off their radar.

Mumsnet was identified as a potential route for advertising to a particular group, not specifically that it has been identified as a good source of 'qualified' candidates. And certainly no suggestion that the opinions of mumsnet are of any specific interest.
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Come on man, stop ruining a perfectly good thread with stating the facts.
 
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