NB There are men on Gransnet

To be fair if there is mansplaining...shouldn’t there be womansplaining..? Devils advocate here

Well Lucca you could be right. A certain area of debate comes immediately to mind

Lucca

To be fair if there is mansplaining...shouldn’t there be womansplaining..? Devils advocate here

Completely agree Lucca. I thought that the purpose of a forum was for people to give and explain their views.

As I have stated on many occasions on this forum, if other members do not like my contributions or what any other person posts then the simple solution is not to read it.

Lucca womansplaining is logically impossible for several reasons. Woman are generally nowhere near arrogant enough to think they automatically know more than a man just because he’s a man so do not womansplain OR (ime) it’s not very difficult to know more than many men and so it’s not womansplaining if you do actually explain something that you do know more anout?. Bit convoluted but you get my drift?

Oh lighten up Grandad

Play nicely you two?

How do you know whether you like a post until you’ve read it?

Don’t understand suedonim

SueDonim

How do you know whether you like a post until you’ve read it?

Just what I was going to post!

The name Gransnet is a straight derivation from Mumsnet, and an obvious contraction of grannies. I don’t think grandfathers are ever referred to as grans or grannies, so if men are as welcome as we are told perhaps it should be renamed Grandsnet.

You'll find the 'odd' male poster on mumsnet as well. Poor chaps, always discriminated against. Remember all those signs at golf clubs "no men, jews or blacks"

Is there a Dadsnet ? Or do men contribute to mumsnet?
Agree grandsnet would be better.

Sorry just read Iam64 post properly....

Iam64

You'll find the 'odd' male poster on mumsnet as well. Poor chaps, always discriminated against. Remember all those signs at golf clubs "no men, jews or blacks"

Well put!

Men are of course welcome - some of my best friends are men ???
...but I really don’t want to end up being lectured to by pompous old dinosaurs - of either sex.

I believe that the GN owners and management will be forced into making fundamental changes to Gransnet in the not too distant future.

Despite the protestations that Gransnet is in existence for the use of both genders, anyone viewing the overall layout and structure of the site will very soon come to realise that it is intended (in reality) for women only.

I feel that the above forum criteria was very much demonstrated to be flawed again only last week when GNHQ opened a thread intended to bring about a scenario of members being more respectful to each other.

However, the above thread very quickly degenerated into nothing short than a series of "gran against gran slag off fights" with more posts being deleted than I believe I have ever witnessed in any thread in more than two and a half years of forum membership.

The way forward is, without doubt, to widen the base of forum membership so as to truly encourage a greatly increased senior male membership. That I believe would bring forward a much broader range of discussions with a far greater balance in the views being put forward.

hmm! Discogran equally your riposte could sound like someone who believes they are above a challenge!

I will admit to preferring ‘ladies’ to ‘guys’ or you guys’. I’m dare say it’s a sure sign of grumpy-old-bag-ness, but those really grate on me.
Mind you, so does the gender-neutral ‘peeps’, as in, ‘What do peeps think?’ ?

Wow grandad. You’ve basically said women slag each other off and men have more balanced views. Welcome to 2020.

I regularly used to visit an apparently largely male forum, where some of them evidently delighted in lurking on mumsnet, picking the daftest posts to share, and gleefully presenting them as evidence that all women are mad/deluded/clueless/vile gold diggers, etc.

Grandad1943

Me and I believe Rufus2 both use the term Ladies or even Good Ladies on my part. However, I will now cease to use that term as I now understand some of you Good Ladies do not like it. ?

Seriously though, I will stop using the termination in the interests of preserving a peaceful forum. ?

I don't mind at all, Grandad

It's better than being called an old biddy or as some women on here called some of the laydies!!

"You lot"?
Covers all genders.

PECS. I don't at all, I am all for healthy discussion.
I felt a bit "shut down" by someone else's post, so bit back. Not really like me, and probably the other poster didn't mean it in a nasty way, but you know how comments can read differently to face to face discussions.
Grandad does make some very valid points. It was ironic that a thread about being more tolerant went the way it did.

I don't feel offended by the use of pet names, ladies, girls, peeps etc. You can't please everyone. ?

Grandad In your post at 08:55:29 you imply that having a balanced number of men and women on the site would eliminate the "slagging off" of grans-on-grans. Have you seen the amount of attacks exchanged on Facebook, where men are at least as abusive as women?

Grandad - you say a ‘greatly increased senior male membership . . . . would bring forward a much broader range of discussions with a far greater balance in the views being put forward.’

What sort of ‘balance’ do you mean, brought by the senior male membership? it won’t be any better or worse then the vast range and shades of views we have here already, but I’m all for welcoming grandads too, if they want to join.

Would it be reasonable to suggest that most people on GN, irregardless of gender, sexual preferences and/or identification etc are mostly of a 'certain age'- whatever that may be? We could be oldies, grizzlies, wrinklies, old farts, old ducks, old bags, golden oldies, sunsetters........??? Or we could be Grandies or perhaps Grandiloquents?

What other names can you think of for people of mature years? Well, at least the reasonably nice ones.