Meghan 'offended' for telling Kate she had 'baby brain'

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Well, the Daily Fail have got their hands on a Spanish copy of the ''memoir'', so there is going to be shrapnel flying about from now until kingdom come.

One of these ''revelations'' is that Meghan made a joke about Kate having ''baby brain hormones'' a month after having Louis, which upset Kate, which in turn then upset Meghan.

Can you imagine the Oprah-style feeding frenzy had this been reversed - Kate telling Meghan that she had baby brain and hormones, which would have perfectly tapped into the villainous ice queen depiction that H&M are flogging right now?

Harry is soap operatising the royal family in the most sensational and tabloid dripfeed way possible (calling his brother his 'archnemesis'.

He is shockingly narcissistic, if he thinks this is not also going to also blow up on him and Meghan. The hypocrisy and whole thing is a shit show.

There’s a bit in one of the articles saying that William pointed his finger at Meghan and told her off for saying it and she told him something like ‘get your finger out of my face.’ I quite like her for that. William is starting to come across as insufferably pompous.

These are all sexist terms which demean women on the grounds of their biology implying that they are irrational - just think about the linguistic origins of the word "hysterical".

I disagree.

Being pregnant/having a baby is a massive strain on your body and I think it’s sexist to act like it’s no big deal.

When you are pregnant you do have a range of increases and decreases in hormones and acknowledging this isn’t sexist it’s literally fact.

It used to be that women weren’t allowed to talk about periods in front of men and were seen as dirty (still are in some areas) but by acknowledging what women go through we’ve changed so many attitudes and rightly so.

Some people will try and find anything to be offended about but what’s worse is that it’s always tends to be associated with females that seem to be the ones that most people have an issue with.
Even the word woman is being removed from so many things.

These are all sexist terms which demean women on the grounds of their biology implying that they are irrational - just think about the linguistic origins of the word "hysterical"

This with bells on.

And it’s only going to get worse now everyone’s talking about menopause all the time.

I also had brain fog from covid - is that offensive too?

Except with Meghans “ truth” he was probably across the room when he did it if in fact he actually did it, the lies just keep coming with this pair.

I'd say possibly, if it was used to invalidate your feelings.

Is covid confined to one sex? No. There's your answer.

It's a term that can be used offensively and since we don't know the context in which it was said we don't know for sure that an average person would find it offensive. But apparently Kate found it offensive and that should be good enough. 🤷‍♀️

There's a huge difference between saying to someone who forgot their keys "oh, it's no big deal, it's probably just baby brain," sympathetically. And saying, " you don't know what you're talking about because you have baby brain," in the midst of a disagreement.

I totally agree.

Are you sure it isn’t your hormones talking?

Harry has just fucked himself over massively. I wonder what it’s like behind closed doors tonight in California. I can’t imagine Meghan will be too happy with how she’s come across in his book.

She would have known and approved what was in the book, I’m sure he didn’t do it without her knowledge.

That’s fine you think that, but surely even if you had thought you’d said something innocuously, if the another party was inadvertently upset by it, you’d just apologise surely?

Say, oh sorry, I didn’t mean it like that.
In Meghans own words ‘just apologise, and don’t do it again’

I don’t know, that would feel pretty intimidating wherever in the room he was. I’m no great fan of either but still.

Agreed.

If she had shown some sort of reflection, or acknowledged playing a part in it, I’d be much more inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

But they never admit to being wrong. Not even a teeny tiny bit.

It’s always ‘we are the victims, they are the villains’ without ever stopping to think maybe it was just a misunderstanding.

‘can’t you take a joke’ says every bully and abusers...

This story is making me feel sorry for Catherine. She's been so misrepresented.

so this is what they were awarded the ‘ripple of hope’ for

That comes across as faux innocence to me. I didn’t have any symptoms of “baby brain” while pregnant or after giving birth. It is not a universal experience for women who have children, any more than pre-menstrual tension or menopausal symptoms are. This means it may be fine to say this of yourself or possibly very close friends you actually know extremely well in order to be qualified to comment, but it is phenomenally rude and patronising to declare to any woman you feel like saying it to that they “must have baby brain hormones.” It is not a valid, automatic explanation of anyone’s behaviour, particularly not someone you really do not know well. At best, Meghan has limited emotional intelligence, is self-centred and unintentionally rude, sexist and abrasive if she doesn’t see where she went wrong here and thinks that she was the one who was hard done by with that interaction.

Can't wait for the soap opera sequel. It maybe be in East Enders

I’ve heard it said both ways and from the book Meghan certainly seems to have meant it as in “act8ng hormonal”. That Kate was over reacting due to baby brain hormones. Which is why it’s offensive.

That’s literally what Harry says the conversation was about, meghans perception of Kate over reacting. Not Kate forgetting how to make a cup of tea.

Not so woke in private is she

Was she like that when you knew her from school or when you worked together at Jigsaw?

Who else was in that room, when Meghan made the comments - Meghan’s friends, staff, dress designers ?

Harry has rather thrown Meghan under the bus too

Meghan so wanted to queen bee Kate. Kate is not your natural queen bee so felt very uncomfortable as she is Meghan senior in the firm. You get personalities like Meghan who enter a new workplace and instantly want to change things and to be the boss even if they're junior. Bloody annoying people.