I've heard "as a father" and "as a parent" from men a good deal, but I have never really looked at Mumsnet. I do know one man who took less than a week to say "Speaking as a father" without irony...

But yes, motherhood is amazing and magical and spiritual and shitty and pointless and important. Like, um, lots of things. I've learned a lot from it but I don't think it's changed much for me; some of my views have become less wishy washy, but they were views I held anyway. It's quite likely that hiking up a pointless mountain or doing White People Work In Brown People Places would have done all the same stuff.

I don't care.