StrawberryWasp
I thought that statement was very revealing.
They'd obviously tried to provide some examples of what good employers they are and they came up with sending a gift and wearing baseball caps.
Both of these are such performative superficial examples. Exactly what I imagine Meghan thinks a warm person is. Like with the hugging: I must be nice I hug people and don't wear shoes.
Also the gift giving would just be a task she assigned someone else to do, hardly her searching Amazon after the kids are in bed.
What they don't seem to understand is you can hug people, send gifts and wear ripped jeans and still come across as fake, superior, difficult, demanding and self absorbed.
I think she must be very confused thinking: I've completed everything on my 'how to show I'm a thoughtful person checklist and still noone likes me.'
I'm really starting to see that she just doesn't understand social interaction or how to communicate.
She has learned 'skills' she can apply: hug, say nice words, send a gift but she doesn't have the instinct for genuine connection.
I think she'd be great in a corporate environment where performance and compliance are the required skills. She is great at 'presenting' but has no personal content or charisma. That's fine for a corporate presentation which is how her speeches come across, just devoid of the content.
I also wonder if that's why the suits role was good for her: she was playing a version of herself which could have been a corporate lawyer. Good looking, successful, go getting: how she sees herself.
Roles which would require real connection with emotions outside her narrow understanding would probably be impossible for her.
I agree with all of this.
It's hard to fake genuine engagement and emotion and most people can spot the difference between the real and the put on.
The video of Meghan on the floor playing with the babies illustrates this perfectly. She was more concerned with the optics and what the still images would look like than listening to a woman telling her heartbreaking story. It was obvious that she wasn't even listening to the poor woman.
There have been many instances like these caught on camera and I don't know how any of her supporters can watch them and still believe she is genuinely in the business of helping people.
True goodness shines through, you just have to look at videos of people like Dolly Parton to see this. You can't fake it and this is why Meghan is disliked and unpopular, despite as you so rightly pointed out, 'ticking all the boxes'.