Backfired a little this thread? Who would have thought that the rumour re Dior may have emanated from @Mumsnet in the first place. I am not at all surprised given the 'I think' 'What if' on some posts here being repeated as fact on another. Report? Why bother. Better it be left for all to see in totality.
This forum was founded initially for Mums as a supportive place for women to come and feel safe. Yes it has evolved over time and how. . I have popped in, off and on over the past few weeks and witnessed a huge pile on particularly on Harry and Meghan
Now I couldn't give a fiddlers about their status, what they represent etc but to see a woman being lied about, torn to shreds, stories being regurgitated over and over, bullied, harassed, and having shade thrown at her from other females is horrible to witness. This has sunk to new levels. Some posters have been prolific and I am glad that those who often try to provide some balance largely stayed off those threads. Instead of directing their sarcasm at those posters those participating have jumped on each others backs to be more outrageous, each trying to outdo the previous contributor.
Omid Scobie and his book have accumulated almost 7000 posts many of which have been directed at Meghan and to a lesser extent Harry. This is in addition to all the other threads and posts.
It has now got to the stage where posters are popping over and back to Tattle (?) and doing a comparison between the two. Is that something to be proud of as women? Some mention they are 'professional' in their postings though I fail to see the relevance except they are possibly looking for validation that their words carry more weight 😀. Would they behave in such a manner in their workplace? Would they as women behave in such a fashion towards other women in public? Would they like their children to witness their behaviour online? If the answer is yes then ???
We are repeatedly told Meghan is irrelevant, Yet along with the media whose lies and exaggeration is often repeated on here with glee, some just cannot stop discussing her. The phrase 'wish she'd piss off to Montecito and leave us all alone' was stated on here a long time ago. She did and still some are obsessed.
Meghan is a woman who came to this country and fell in love. The way she was treated since day one has been appalling. This rubbish myth that people changed their feeling about her after she got married is just that.
Remember the headline in the Sun in 2016 “Harry girl’s on Pornhub”? Even as far back as 2016 the media and social media was being called out from sexism and racial undertones when commenting about Meghan.
How can the headline in the same year 2016 in the Daily Mail ''Harry's girl is (almost) straight outta Compton: Gang-scarred home of her mother revealed - so will he be dropping by for tea?'' be forgotten?
The racism continued unabated, who can forget Michael and her brooch?
The furore and criticism when Meghan guest edited Vogue in 2019 and the words of the then editor Edward Enniful ' “Was the criticism racist? Some of it, yeah,” Enninful says. “Actually it was more than racism,” he adds. “I thought it was personal – attacking someone you don’t know, attacking her.”
The letters sent to Meghan with white powder which was treated as a race hate crime, the jailing of 2 neo nazi thugs for threatening to kill both Harry and Meghan, the retired police officers who admitted sending racist messages about Meghan and narrowly avoided jail this week, the police officers from Bethnal Green Police Station who sent racist jokes about Meghan on a What's app group, the investigation into more 'jokes' by members of West Yorkshire police force.
So much more and all of it recorded and provable. Every person that posts on social media about alleged incidents, speculates on what might have happened or may have been said are part of the problem. For example the opening post above may have originated on here and has subsequently made its way to a tabloid and hey presto makes it way back here for more gossip, speculation and innuendo.
While some here can give every little detail of what Meghan is alleged to have said or done, will post and repost the same old over and over again I have yet to see the words of Neil Basu being repeated ad nauseum let alone even once, They should be.,
For every denial of racism on here and there have been many the words of Neil Basu call out strongly. When asked if there had been many credible threats against Meghan’s life, Basu answered: “Absolutely, and if you’d seen the stuff that was written and you were receiving it … the kind of rhetoric that’s online, if you don’t know what I know, you would feel under threat all of the time.”
He added: “We had teams investigating it. People have been prosecuted for those threats.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/duchess-of-sussex-faced-disgusting-threats-to-life-senior-met-officer-says