Prosecco Stormfront

English

Etymology

From Prosecco, a wine varietal, and Stormfront, a white supremacist website, the sarcastic implication being that Mumsnet has become a radicalisation pipeline for upper-middle-class mothers (sometimes referred to pejoratively as wine moms).

Proper noun

Prosecco Stormfront

1. (Internet slang, derogatory) The British parenting-focused message board Mumsnet, viewed as a locus of gender-critical discourse and activism.

   Synonym: Mumsnut

   • 2019 November 27, Banquo's Ghost (@_banquos_ghost_), Twitter‎^[1]:

     Prosecco Stormfront have worked themselves up into a transphobic frenzy of utter vileness now.

   • 2020 June 27, Gemma Stone (@notCursedE), Twitter‎^[2]:

     Prosecco Stormfront aka Mumsnet had to shut down the Graham Linehan thread to moderate it because of the sheer influx of new accounts trolling everyone.

   • 2022 May 20, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter‎^[3]:

     Prosecco Stormfront slagging off another cis woman, all because she doesn’t agree with their obsessive transphobic hate-cult! 🙄😖

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Prosecco Stormfront.