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I have joined Gransnet for one reason only...

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tee2072 Thu 21-Feb-13 14:11:00

If any of you are MN users, you may recognize my name.

I have come over to Gransnet to drum up support for my inspired campaign. It ties neatly into Let Girls Be Girls and Let Boys and Girls Have Toys (or whatever that one is) and Let Boys Have Clothes (not sure on that name either).

It is: Let Grans Be....something! Yeah, it needs work. grin

Last week I went to Eason, a major retailer, to buy a birthday card for my mother from my 3.9 year old. All of the Grandma, Nanny, Nan etc cards had tea pots or knitting or a combination thereof!

I don't know about the Grans here on Gransnet, but my son's Grandma spent 2 weeks on African safari recently and the year before that went to the Galapagos Islands to see the turtles. She doesn't knit, I am not even sure she likes tea all that much!

So who is with me?

First we need a slogan...

JessM Sat 23-Feb-13 08:00:19

Yes there is a nice irony isn't there - comes in , tells us we are stereotyped, patronises us and flounces off. Very funny. grin

absent Sat 23-Feb-13 08:21:43

I am amused not only by the contradictory assumption that we need a younger woman to help us understand that we are sometimes stereotyped as "little old ladies" and might want to campaign against this, but that the first thing we need is a slogan. Not a consensus, not a specific aim, not a specific target, not a plan of action – a slogan.

Butty Sat 23-Feb-13 09:47:00

I am amused at some of the stereotypical responses to the OP.

Elegran Sat 23-Feb-13 11:41:38

Just responding appropriately to being stereotypicalised.

Galen Sat 23-Feb-13 11:55:37

absent I'll admit to the old but not the little or ladyangry

absent Sat 23-Feb-13 12:06:15

Ditto Galen grin I'll wine to that.

Galen Sat 23-Feb-13 12:09:43

Fat, feisty females?

soop Sat 23-Feb-13 13:44:58

Mr soop thinks that I'm fabulous...yay! grin

Galen Sat 23-Feb-13 14:06:01

Fabulous fat feisty females?

Galen Sat 23-Feb-13 14:06:39

Or how about FABULOUS FEMMES?

j08 Sat 23-Feb-13 14:08:55

"Think she needed her legs slapping"

OMG

j08 Sat 23-Feb-13 14:12:01

I think I could find a more fitting description for some of the posters this site seems to attract.

The OP is long gone. Can't you find anything better to talk about?

absent Sat 23-Feb-13 15:07:40

j08 What could be better than discussing how utterly glorious we all are?

Stansgran Sat 23-Feb-13 15:10:51

So what is the description JO7? And do you include yourself? Why should anyone log on get a password and fathom the intricacies of a website for one post? Baffled.

Stansgran Sat 23-Feb-13 15:12:19

I've run out of passwords significant enough to me for me to remember.

Ana Sat 23-Feb-13 15:16:49

I use the same password for nearly everything.
And I'm not fat.

Stansgran Sat 23-Feb-13 15:30:55

Sorry I mean JO8 . A fine figure of a woman is much better and more realistic than fat.