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Nogbreaks · 19/12/2022 08:26

Feels Meghan has done to him to justify the vitriol and misogyny of that article he wrote where he’d like to see her naked and assaulted?

I mean WTF? How in earth did a major publication think that it was fine to publish his little sexual fantasy about hurting a woman like that?

I’m no fan of the Royals in any form, and could care less about their infighting, but why are we surprised that there is so much violence against women and girls when this kind of article by an influential man is seen as okay to write?
Where’s his description of a naked, vulnerable Harry being assaulted??

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SinnerBoy · 19/12/2022 18:05

TheFairyCaravan

I can’t see my Piers Morgan is saying, thankfully, because he blocked me for calling him out over his abuse of Meghan.

Poor ole Pierced Organ has an ignominious history of hissy fits, when people who know what they're talking about point out, politely, that he's an ignorant, ill-informed gobshite.

harrassedmumto3 · 19/12/2022 18:05

Awful. Just awful.

pigsDOfly · 19/12/2022 18:11

He's an odious little man, always has been.

His popularity, and the fact that he's managed to climb to the top of a very slimy pole says a great deal about our society and its attitudes and values, and none of it is good.

Is it any wonder that societal attitudes towards woman never improve when you've got oafs like him and his buddies at the Sun putting into print, for their brainless readership to lick their lips over, such disgusting vitriol about a woman who has done nothing more offensive to him than merely exist.

WatchoRulo · 19/12/2022 18:12

MigsandTiggs · 19/12/2022 18:03

@WatchoRulo No, I meant provocative; I wouldn't call anyone a cunt. Clarkson's modus operandi is to shock.

You wouldn't call anyone a cunt, but you love entertainment where a naked woman is pelted with shit. Takes all sorts.

Mrsjayy · 19/12/2022 18:16

It's all over the news even the local Scottish news Nicola Sturgeon commented on him ! Apparently he's apologised so thats ok.

cardibach · 19/12/2022 18:17

WatchoRulo · 19/12/2022 18:12

You wouldn't call anyone a cunt, but you love entertainment where a naked woman is pelted with shit. Takes all sorts.

I think this shows a poor understanding of how fiction works on an audience. The most violent thing I’ve ever seen is Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus - and yes, it involves rape and violence against at least one woman. Nobody says people watching Shakespeare are bad people. Fiction it creates worlds where bad things happen. It’s. Totally different from the same things in real life.

CaptainMyCaptain · 19/12/2022 18:24

It's being discussed on BBC 1 news now. Apparently the Sun has taken down the article from the website now. The correspondent David(?) Sillito referred to the unpleasantness of the post and fake apology. He mentioned over 14 000 complaints.

MigsandTiggs · 19/12/2022 18:28

@WatchoRulo You've obviously not read the books which have elements of medieval culture. In the show, Cersei Lannister is paraded naked through the street and pelted, as a punishment intended to break one's pride. Historically, this punishment was meted out to members of both sexes.
GOT is an epic fantasy.

ReneBumsWombats · 19/12/2022 18:31

cardibach · 19/12/2022 18:17

I think this shows a poor understanding of how fiction works on an audience. The most violent thing I’ve ever seen is Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus - and yes, it involves rape and violence against at least one woman. Nobody says people watching Shakespeare are bad people. Fiction it creates worlds where bad things happen. It’s. Totally different from the same things in real life.

Nobody watches Titus Andronicus. It's shite.

TheKeatingFive · 19/12/2022 18:33

Nobody watches Titus Andronicus. It's shite.

😂

MigsandTiggs · 19/12/2022 18:33

@ReneBumsWombats How do you know it's shite if you've never watched it?

TheKeatingFive · 19/12/2022 18:36

Nobody says people watching Shakespeare are bad people

Despite how the tabloids treat her, Meghan is an actual person, not a character in a play.

ReneBumsWombats · 19/12/2022 18:36

MigsandTiggs · 19/12/2022 18:33

@ReneBumsWombats How do you know it's shite if you've never watched it?

I've read it. Wish I hadn't.

TheKeatingFive · 19/12/2022 18:37

I was in it, in a drama group as a teen. It's not one of his better ones, no.

ReneBumsWombats · 19/12/2022 18:38

TheKeatingFive · 19/12/2022 18:37

I was in it, in a drama group as a teen. It's not one of his better ones, no.

What? Who thought that was a good one for kids to do, on any level?

FrippEnos · 19/12/2022 18:40

TheKeatingFive · 19/12/2022 18:04

I didn't say anything about self defence.

And I was replying to a post that said exactly that, I'll throw shade (within guidelines) as much I like

Cropping a post to make yourself look good doesn't put you in a good light.

But you do you.

Bottlesofhot · 19/12/2022 18:41

I've made a complaint about the piece via this page, it's absolutely disgusting what he wrote and there is no justification for it:

www.thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/

Roussette · 19/12/2022 18:44

Though no doubt the Sussexes will want his head on a platter.

They haven't even commented and aren't likely to. Stop that sort of rhetoric.

TheKeatingFive · 19/12/2022 18:45

Cropping a post to make yourself look good doesn't put you in a good light.

Okay, really scraping the barrel now. Your post is still there, in all its glory, for all the world to see. No one can take that away fro you.

TheKeatingFive · 19/12/2022 18:46

What? Who thought that was a good one for kids to do, on any level?

We were teens and thought it was terribly edgy of us.

it was an awful performance, truth be told. 😂

Nogbreaks · 19/12/2022 18:46

His ‘apology’ is laughable. I’d love to know what his daughter has said to him, if anything, direct.

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Rhondaa · 19/12/2022 18:47

'They haven't even commented and aren't likely to. Stop that sort of rhetoric.'

Please don't tell people to stop, you aren't the boss y'know.

Oh they may not have commented yet, but this will have been filed away for Vol 3, I bet H did a little kerrrrching dance when he read about it.

EmmaAgain22 · 19/12/2022 18:49

Rhondaa · 19/12/2022 18:47

'They haven't even commented and aren't likely to. Stop that sort of rhetoric.'

Please don't tell people to stop, you aren't the boss y'know.

Oh they may not have commented yet, but this will have been filed away for Vol 3, I bet H did a little kerrrrching dance when he read about it.

I think he probably was very upset.

EmmaAgain22 · 19/12/2022 18:50

Nogbreaks · 19/12/2022 18:46

His ‘apology’ is laughable. I’d love to know what his daughter has said to him, if anything, direct.

If I had a father who said that sort of thing, I'd disown them.

cardibach · 19/12/2022 18:52

TheKeatingFive · 19/12/2022 18:36

Nobody says people watching Shakespeare are bad people

Despite how the tabloids treat her, Meghan is an actual person, not a character in a play.

My exact point 🙄

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