Meghan challenged racism, sexism, anti transgender jokes

[antelopevalley]

The Sunday Times is reporting that when Meghan first met Harry's friends, she challenged every single one of their sexist, racist and anti-transgender jokes.

"Soon after Harry and Meghan’s relationship was revealed, Harry invited Meghan to join his weekend shoot at Sandringham. With the Queen’s permission he had invited 16 friends to arrive for dinner on Friday night, shoot on Saturday and leave after lunch on Sunday. Most of the guests were old friends from Eton with their wives or girlfriends. All of them were employed by international banks and auction houses or were estate owners and racehorse trainers. All were bonded by common assumptions, principles and loyalties.

Like other shooting weekends, Harry was looking forward to endless banter, jokes — and a lot of drinking. He had not anticipated Meghan’s reaction. Their jokes involving sexism, feminism and transgender people ricocheted around the living-rooms and dining-rooms. Without hesitation, Meghan challenged every guest whose conversation contravened her values. According to some of Harry’s friends, again and again she reprimanded them about the slightest inappropriate nuance. Nobody was exempt. Harry’s world would not be her world.

Beyond Harry’s hearing, some friends questioned Meghan’s “wokery”. Meghan was a dampener on the party, they concluded. She lacked any sense of humour. Driving home after Sunday lunch, the texts pinged between the cars: “OMG what about HER?” said one; “Harry must be f*ing nuts.”"

@SammyScrounge

Especially not to Eton/Oxford types. They are corruscatingly witty and would have destroyed her verbally.

Have you spent much time around those 'types'? In many cases it's not wit that allows them to hold court at events, it's the confidence they have developed from a lifetime of being given the floor and indulged.

With people lapping up their comments, even if the comments are mean spirited, misogynistic or racist, because they have an impressive vocabulary and are supremely confident.

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with a great vocab. Or confidence. Plenty of people who attend Oxford / Cambridge are of course nice, decent and genuinely funny.

The kind who you gleefully imagine 'destroying someone verbally' through their wit aren't those people. They're bullies. You're their target audience by the sound of it, cheering them on from the sidelines and applauding them. Grim, really.

But she still married him. Mo0ney makes the world go round

Absolutely agree with her calling this kind of crap out.

However it does make me even more cynical about why she’s with him. He is part of this crowd, he is very much like them. If she doesn’t like them then wtf is she doing with him? Apart from the obvious.

Wow how bitchy. Bet you've not done that either.

I do not
I enjoy banter and have no respect for people who think they have the right to control what others say
Where does that end
Why does she think that what she thinks is all that matters
or that she has the right to tell others what they are allowed to say or not say
I understand that we are all different and have a different perspective
To tell people what they are or are not allowed to say is not in any way liberal it is extremely right wing and is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany, Italy, -Spain under Franco and happens now in China, the middle east, Pakistan, Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain.

I am glad that none of my friends behave like that and accept others.

It's possible to have banter without sexist misogyny. 🙄 Maybe the women were not comfortable with it and didn't feel they could say anything. She is speaking for them too even whether or not they appreciated it. I respect her for calling it out when there must have been a lot of pressure to fit in.

It's not at all comparable to Nazi Germany, China or everywhere else you mentioned. You can get into serious trouble for speaking your views in China. The equivalent here I guess would be she would name and shame and get them all cancelled on Twitter and fired from their jobs. Ridiculous comparison.

Shit that didn’t happen