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AnnMumsnet · 10/11/2013 12:32

This survey is open to all UK Mumsnet users who have at least one child of school age.

Please answer thinking about ONE child only. If you have more than one child of school age please answer thinking about your eldest school aged child.

As a thank you all respondents (who leave their details at the end) will be entered into a prize draw for a £50 Amazon voucher.

Here's the link again: survey link

Thanks and good luck

MNHQ Smile

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ScienceRocks · 13/11/2013 09:58

Bizarre survey. What is the link between how parents and schools tackle homophobic remarks from children and celebrity chefs?

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MrsCakesPremonition · 13/11/2013 10:02

Very odd.

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Ragwort · 13/11/2013 10:02

Science - I was going to use exactly the same word - totally bizarre survey Confused

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Ragwort · 13/11/2013 10:03

Do Mumsnet review these surveys before they are used?

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FTRscreamingInTerror · 13/11/2013 10:11

I'm not quite sure what that was all about Confused

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Dogonabeanbag · 13/11/2013 10:49

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Pachacuti · 13/11/2013 10:50

It could be two completely separate areas that MNHQ has combined into one survey so they only need to give out one lot of vouchers -- or maybe someone is looking for a celebrity figurehead for a campaign on this subject? My guess would be the unrelated option, though.

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Theimpossiblegirl · 13/11/2013 10:55

I started to wonder if either of the celebrity chefs was gay or had a child being bullied and so spearheading a campaign? (I think that I am overthinking it a bit, it's probably to save vouchers).

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AnnMumsnet · 13/11/2013 10:56

Sorry - yes totally unrelated!

We just needed to get some quick opinions on the chefs stuff....Grin

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AnnMumsnet · 13/11/2013 10:59

Theimpossiblegirl - crossed posts....totally unrelated just us being sneaky

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flowery · 13/11/2013 12:01

No idea who either of those chefs are....

[ancient and out-of-touch emoticon]

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Libra · 13/11/2013 12:34

Oh I am glad that I was not the only one who had never heard of either of those chefs!

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LaundryLegoLunch · 13/11/2013 12:40

Bizarre! I've heard of both chefs but have no view on them as parents. I was about to google them to see if one was gay or something Confused

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NumptyNameChange · 13/11/2013 13:08

i hadn't heard of either of those chefs.

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sassolino · 13/11/2013 18:20

I did the survey before there was any additional bit on the chefs. I don't want to redo the first part, but it looks like you cannot just submit the chefs' survey. Couldn't you split it into two?

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WrenNatsworthy · 13/11/2013 18:26

I'm really interested in the example you used to illustrate homophobic language. The young people I work with used to use the word 'gay' as an insult (haven't heard it for ages), but when I explored it with them, not all of them knew the link with homosexuality, language being the fluid organic thing that it is. I'd say that there are different words being used currently as homophobic insult words. Or am I wrong?

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DameDeepRedBetty · 13/11/2013 18:36

I've heard the words used, but not in an insulting context. It's hard to describe, but it seems to have transferred meanings somehow to mean something like 'funny' or 'slightly silly'. Every time my lot have used it, it seems to be affectionate.

And I haven't heard of either of the two chefs!

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NumptyNameChange · 13/11/2013 20:32

that's so gay is using the word gay as an insulting term. it doesn't matter whether they meant it as in 'i think gay people are bad and therefore i'm consciously ascribing the word gay to things i find negative' or if they're just parroting what the other kids say - it's still using homosexuality as an insult and contributing to an atmosphere in which it is difficult for young people to come out and feel safe.

years ago it might have been 'don't be such a poof' with 'poof' not necessarily meaning homosexual but meaning feminine, not manly, wet, etc and associating those things as negative and negativity with homosexuality.

people do get how this works don't they?

it's like my father, to my shame, will still use racist words not because he's a paid up member of the ku klux klan who would like to see harm come to anyone of a different ethnicity but none the less they are racist words and need challenging.

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WrenNatsworthy · 14/11/2013 00:51

My point is that for some of the young people I work with, they don't associate that word with homosexuality. I do, because of my generation.

I wasn't defending the use of the word, I was merely wondering whether another word might have been a better example, as if young people no longer associate the word with homosexuality then it can't be said that they are being homophobic.

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MrsCakesPremonition · 14/11/2013 01:15

If young people don't associate "gay" with "homosexual", what do they call gay people? Confused.

Do they know what the G in LGBT stands for?

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LauraChant · 14/11/2013 08:57

Am I the only one who had no idea what "resonates with you as a parent" means?

I only know of one of them and only vaguely.

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trockodile · 14/11/2013 10:49

I have done the survey and left details as am happy to discuss topic. Had no opinion on chefs I'm afraid!

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WrenNatsworthy · 14/11/2013 11:13

If it ever comes up again I'll ask mrscakes .

I don't think it will though, like I said, if they want to mean to each other they'd be unlikely to use that word anyway these days.

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NumptyNameChange · 14/11/2013 11:54

which you most identify with i guess laura. but i hadn't heard of any of them.

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NumptyNameChange · 14/11/2013 11:56

it's not about being 'mean' to each other - it's about associating negative, undesirable traits or behaviours with homsexuality. it's not about calling someone 'gay' as an insult but using the word gay to confer negativity onto something. does that make sense?

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