Meghan, Duchess of Sussex spotted out and about

[queentim]

Recently spotted at a TSwift (allegedly), Barbie movie for her birthday, a restaurant, and then hanging out with friends in an Instagram selfie. She looks phenomenal in this photo!

Glad to see she's enjoying her life back home with her family.

Meghan summer selfie

I’m surprised MNHQ still entertain all this tbqhwy

Some negative articles in the DM this morning

not seen it. no snorting just asked for a link.

😂😂😂

I have never heard of some of the things/sites referred to in the past few days but would not be interested. There is an old saying that if you wrestle with pigs you both get dirty.

I think linking to extreme sites, be they celebitchy or Reddit forums is not on. It is entertaining to read pro and anti arguments on the H&M issue, but things have degenerated into brawling in the gutter.

I think some posters need to stop goading by regurgitating negative stuff from elsewhere and others - posting angrily today - need to jolly well calm down and realise that M&H don’t love you or even give two hoots about you; you are acting like a deranged superfan.

Can I just say that I am NOT the purple poster being referred to . I am just someone who is tired of a poster trying to shut me down .

Have a good day everyone.

"a site in which women of colour hang out to have light hearted fun over the UK Royals"

It does make you wonder where online bullying starts and light hearted fun ends. You refer to white groups targeting 4 black women and doing research or something on them. It must be difficult to assign the degree of "light hearted fun" at times.

@AuroraCake Yes

When you compare what they actually said with what their fans run with… it really seems to have nothing to do with the actual H&M at all.

I would love to see a copy of that.

Only a person who grew up in a black household knows all about Pink! Give it up for Doria!

Yep that was such a specific cultural reference which made me look into the Thomas narrative out there a little more.

As you should! If I recall, reading a wide range of sources was the thing to do, according to previous posters.

I certainly hope those criticizing Celebitchy aren't also reading the Mail, Sun, Telegraph, Independent, etc., or sources where there's a "as reported by the Sun/Mail" etc.

I do wonder where people get their royal news/gossip from.

Also, why are previously banned posters creating new accounts just to talk about Meghan. It's so funny seeing the deleted notifications 😂it's not that serious

Derailing my own thread here. We'll het back on track soon

@queentim

Still amused by the poster who got worked up about an anecdote she said was in Spare, only to be told the source was GBNews. Ooops! Certainly very revealing of her "sources".😅

@skullbabe

Yes, the Pink lotion anecdote was interesting to me for the same reasons. Especially when we were all growing up, including Meghan, black hair products were not so widely available you could just pick them up in the supermarket. Someone, somewhere, went to downtown LA to stock up on Pink ... and it was not Thomas!

It also exploded the whole "she has always identified as white" narrative that was spun here and elsewhere.

I would give anything to see Meghan in a full 'fro. The internet would explode!!

That poster has not been banned, is not posting under a new account, and I think it’s unkind to be talking about people who chose to leave because of the toxic environment. Let people go if they want to go, move on.

@MrsFiddle

It does make you wonder where online bullying starts and light hearted fun ends. You refer to white groups targeting 4 black women and doing research or something on them. It must be difficult to assign the degree of "light hearted fun" at times.

You are SO kind to express this interest.

Michelle Obama being accused of being a man, and of having kidnapped her daughters, is not light hearted fun. So it's an easy demarcation to make.
Likewise, Meghan being accused of fraudulently inserting children into the line of succession, is not light hearted fun. Serena, and Beyonce, being accused of fake pregnancies, and Serena being accused of being a man in drag, again not lighthearted.

I am looking into why some white women (mainly) are so keen to spread these conspiracy theories about these four specific women. Specifically, what is it that makes some (not all) white women hate these black women to the point of accusing them of being criminals and frauds. It's particularly striking that these are women who are, in many ways "firsts".

I am developing a number of theories and one of them is that it may be a scarcity issue: there is a feeling that they "got away" with something desirable to some white women that they don't believe black women also deserve, lots of money, a place in the royal family, tennis trophies, being part of a black presidency, etc etc and that these women have to be "exposed".

It's interesting to me that the one woman who has followed the usual trajectory associated with black women in the public eye, of being a successful musician, gets the least online hate of the three, but the three who have entered worlds considered "white" so tennis, the UK Royal Family, the White House, get a disproportionate amount of online hate.

I have spent a lot of time on various fora to understand it, and that includes Mumsnet, where the Meghan conspiracies have popped up. The difference between this and other social media forums is that the moderation tends to be better, but the attitudes are the same. Hence the strange love affair some posters here have with Thomas Markle and his white children, while fanning flames against Meghan and Doria.

I am also getting the sense that a lot of Meghan haters are isolated, alienated, and rather sad. It's the obsessiveness that gives it away, and the rage. There's research being done by others about how hating public figures is a way of bonding for alienated people. So there is a human side to it, that I want to understand.

@MrsMaxDeWinter it threatens some white people to have black people entering areas that are have been traditionally white, people are "allowed" careers in rap music, some sports as that fits with a stereotype and they are comfortable about that. It's about keeping people down

Meghan dated to marry Harry, she dared to enter the royal family, she dared to leave the royal family and now she dares to build a successful life

Interesting @MrsMaxDeWinter

"This reply has been deleted

This has been deleted by MNHQ for breaking our Talk Guidelines - previously banned poster."

So MNHQ is what, lying when they say this?

And that's nice. I still, and will continue to, find it amusing.

I wasn't aware I was forcing anyone to remain here, strapping them down to the thread.

Well. ... exactly. It's obvious who this was.

It's hard to change writing styles, the signs are there however much you try to disguise it.

If they wanted to go because of 'a toxic environment '...why come back?! It can't have been that bad then!

I think we may be talking about different people to be honest. Occupational hazard of talking about people who are not here to defend themselves…