Temporary Mumsnet logo -not at all funny!

To dent some of the power. To question authority.
Are you asking why satire is important? There are endless explanations of its role.

Thanks BlueBalou
I think it's a poor response @gransnet

It looks like the work of a 13 year old.
Pathetic.

Galaxy

It wasnt disgusting at all. It is very important to make fun of the powerful and has been throughout history.

Why is it important to make fun of the powerful?

BlueBalou

*Hi everyone - we’re sorry that the logo has upset everyone. We honestly didn’t think beforehand how it might go down as it was intended as bit of fun - but we take your point. In a world where people are being arrested for being antimonarchist, we think it’s important as a society that we can freely make fun of the rich and powerful but clearly we misjudged the mood and it was poorly executed. We've now taken it down*

MN’s response was disgusting. Apparently making fun of the rich and powerful is ok now.
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I agree.

I also thought it smug and disingenuous, as though thy thought they were striking some important bid for freedom.

It wasnt disgusting at all. It is very important to make fun of the powerful and has been throughout history.

Hi everyone - we’re sorry that the logo has upset everyone. We honestly didn’t think beforehand how it might go down as it was intended as bit of fun - but we take your point. In a world where people are being arrested for being antimonarchist, we think it’s important as a society that we can freely make fun of the rich and powerful but clearly we misjudged the mood and it was poorly executed. We've now taken it down

MN’s response was disgusting. Apparently making fun of the rich and powerful is ok now.
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I hadn't seen this.
@gransnet - why did you do it?

Just curious.

Louella12 I can sympathise with you, about having the "pinned operation"

Body shaming ! My brother had to have his ears pinned back at a teenage age, he was tormented so much. The procedure was so painful he did not want to have the other one done, but of course had to. It's pathetic that a so called adolescent site can mock a simple thing like ears. They must all be "Perfectly formed" on lala mumsnet.

heath480

What a fuss about nothing!!MN took the logo down!!

It should never have been put up in the first place though.

Wish my son would get home from the celebrations, I want to go to bed!

What a fuss about nothing!!MN took the logo down!!

Tidnock

^1 out of 10^

But you can't resist checking!

I'm just watching Greenland and drinking mint tea

You are also checking person on gransnet I've never spoken too before

How's your evening going?

1 out of 10

But you can't resist checking!

Witzend

In very poor taste, not to mention very puerile.
Many of the posters on the MN thread would seem to agree.

But one poster did ask whether MNers would prefer something ‘servile’ instead. So I suppose it’s impossible to explain to anyone like that, that even an ardent republican could find it in very poor taste.

I'm a Republican (tho' not an ardent one), and I found it in poor taste.

Not only that - it seems it's OK because Charles is a man - fair game... would a similar feature on a female be caricatured in the same way I wonder, and accepted as 'fun' by MNs?

It's the sort of jokey thing my son would have drawn on one of his exercise books. At school, when he was about 15.

1 out of 10

It wasn't meant to be witty or intellectual, just observant. Why so aggressive when I was agreeing with you!

Tidnock

^Nasty, evil, bullying Violetsky^

Well you said it, no one else.

I'll score that 2 out of 10

Not very witty or intellectual as comebacks go

Nasty, evil, bullying Violetsky

Well you said it, no one else.

I just laughed and felt guilty for it

Then everybody lost their minds

Nasty, evil, bullying Violetsky

But we know why don't we

I have no idea, I didn't actually do it did I?

Mumsnet did

VioletSky

Tangents, we have them

People's ears and noses or whatever are not abnormalities either!

So why poke fun at them?

QED

Tangents, we have them

People's ears and noses or whatever are not abnormalities either!

Smileless2012

I don't remember anything like that on GN either Callistemon.

And who ever said that skin colour is a physical abnormality?
Even suggesting that is sinking to an extraordinarily low level.

Red hair isn't either but having red hair certainly made my DD toughen up against the bullies.