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The reviews are coming in for Meghan's podcast 'Confessions of a Female Founder'ions of a

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LaBarruci · 08/04/2025 16:54

Not listened to the first in Meghan's podcast series, a conversation with the founder of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Heard, but the Mail has collated all the press reviews so far, with links. The Guardian, Telegraph and i-Paper are unanimous: the podcast is cloyingly dreadful.

The reviews for Meghan Markle's latest podcast are in! Two stars for Confessions of a Female Founder https://mol.im/a/14584193 via https://dailym.ai/android

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Mylovelygreendress · 15/04/2025 14:39

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 14:37

Hopefully Mumsnet will do the right thing and will show what they actually stand for, other posters also need to know whether this is still a safe space to discuss all things pregnancy related including miscarriages. If this thread is left to stand that means that Mumsnet is fine with women being derided for experiencing a pregnancy loss. I am not sure how this would work in favour of the website.

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I am a bit puzzled by your comments so I will ask again - who is making fun of Meghan having a miscarriage ?

Dolaly · 15/04/2025 14:43

She will use anything to get her a few column inches, we know she tends to embellish, so hard to know if the dramatic digging a grave by Harry with his bare hands is exactly what happened.

She really is a weird one, no doubt about it.

smilesy · 15/04/2025 14:45

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 14:36

Reported

Did you report the horrible things that were actually said about the Princess of Wales?

eta those thread were left to stand 🤷‍♀️

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 14:46

I didn't , but if you see something you are not comfortable with please go and report it.

BemusedAmerican · 15/04/2025 14:49

SingingSonnets · 15/04/2025 14:34

The DM comments. I can imagine the type of people that comment.

Interesting a number of women who had miscarried.

smilesy · 15/04/2025 14:50

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 14:46

I didn't , but if you see something you are not comfortable with please go and report it.

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Lots of us did

eta meant to say as well, the fact that we were uncomfortable with it obviously didn’t mean it was against guidelines. Free speech and all that I suppose 🤷‍♀️

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2025 14:53

Mylovelygreendress · 15/04/2025 13:38

No one is making fun of a woman who has had miscarriages ? I have had 2 . DD1 had one . It’s sad , horrible etc .
Some posters ( myself included ) are just curious about how Meghan always manages to shoehorn her alleged experiences into every conversation . Why not ask open questions and allow your guest to speak ?

Let’s not forget the poor woman who wrote the details of her miscarriage, that was copied almost word for word by Meghan!

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 14:54

smilesy · 15/04/2025 14:50

Lots of us did

eta meant to say as well, the fact that we were uncomfortable with it obviously didn’t mean it was against guidelines. Free speech and all that I suppose 🤷‍♀️

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I Will always encourage people to report, report, report. Is one thing to be critical about a celebrity, but making fun of someone' s pregnancy loss on a forum mainly target at parents is really a new low.
If you come across, something that makes you deeply disturbing then you should actually report.

There is no reason for what is supposed to be a safe space for women who have experienced or currently going through a miscarriage to allow threads like this to stand.

Spectre8 · 15/04/2025 14:54

Mylovelygreendress · 15/04/2025 13:38

No one is making fun of a woman who has had miscarriages ? I have had 2 . DD1 had one . It’s sad , horrible etc .
Some posters ( myself included ) are just curious about how Meghan always manages to shoehorn her alleged experiences into every conversation . Why not ask open questions and allow your guest to speak ?

Alleged experienxe? So are you suggesting she didn't?

SingingSonnets · 15/04/2025 14:54

BemusedAmerican · 15/04/2025 14:49

Interesting a number of women who had miscarried.

They can say anything really can’t they. I really wouldn’t read too much into the comments of DM readers.

smilesy · 15/04/2025 14:56

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 14:54

I Will always encourage people to report, report, report. Is one thing to be critical about a celebrity, but making fun of someone' s pregnancy loss on a forum mainly target at parents is really a new low.
If you come across, something that makes you deeply disturbing then you should actually report.

There is no reason for what is supposed to be a safe space for women who have experienced or currently going through a miscarriage to allow threads like this to stand.

See my edit above

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 14:57

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 14:54

I Will always encourage people to report, report, report. Is one thing to be critical about a celebrity, but making fun of someone' s pregnancy loss on a forum mainly target at parents is really a new low.
If you come across, something that makes you deeply disturbing then you should actually report.

There is no reason for what is supposed to be a safe space for women who have experienced or currently going through a miscarriage to allow threads like this to stand.

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Dalky · 15/04/2025 15:04

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2025 14:53

Let’s not forget the poor woman who wrote the details of her miscarriage, that was copied almost word for word by Meghan!

Yes that was a despicable thing for MM to do - to steal the exact narrative of someone elses personal tragedy. How low can you go.

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 15:04

If making fun of a woman that experienced a miscarriage on a website which is supposed to be a safe space for those who have had to go through this trauma is not against guidelines or against what this website represents then they need to make it clear and people who post on this website also need to know what Mumsnet stands for.
Other users also need to know whether this is still a safe space to share this kind of trauma because allowing this thread to stand will be clearly setting a precedent.

Dalky · 15/04/2025 15:10

I wonder if Doria will be one of MM guests as she is a female founder.

Most recently https://www.lovingkindnessseniorcare.com/ - where she is the CEO, CFO and Company Secretary - there are no other employees, premises or accounts filed so would be interesting to discuss her business model.

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Dolaly · 15/04/2025 15:11

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2025 14:53

Let’s not forget the poor woman who wrote the details of her miscarriage, that was copied almost word for word by Meghan!

Had forgotten about that, Meghan Markle is really something else.

She wrote that article very soon after Chrissy Teigan documented her experience with losing her baby, which was globally applauded. Next thing we know, Meghan is writing an emotive article about an early loss pregnancy she had suffered a few years previously, it was seen by some as 'hoping on the bandwagon' and then to use someone else's experience to describe her own miscarriage.

SingingSonnets · 15/04/2025 15:13

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 15:04

If making fun of a woman that experienced a miscarriage on a website which is supposed to be a safe space for those who have had to go through this trauma is not against guidelines or against what this website represents then they need to make it clear and people who post on this website also need to know what Mumsnet stands for.
Other users also need to know whether this is still a safe space to share this kind of trauma because allowing this thread to stand will be clearly setting a precedent.

Tbf, talking about mumsnet as a safe space is silly. It’s the internet, it’s not a safe space. Mumsnet allow this corner to get quite hateful but if you read posts about Meghan and Harry on other boards, you’ll see that it’s just a minority of people that think like the people on the RF board. Mumsnet allow it to stand because it gives them traffic. This board doesn’t reflect wider opinion.

HiRen · 15/04/2025 15:17

@LipglossAlly

This is the Royal Family board. There are other boards for pregnancy, infertility and related matters where people looking for support and advice and help can find all those things. They're amazing. Really, really wonderful resources for women (and at times men) who need something specific.

You don't get to tell me how to react to another woman's miscarriage story, and you certainly don't have any moral superiority with your #safespace policing of Mumsnet (of all things). If I suspect a sniff of a woman embellishing her experience for clicks or direct/indirect monetary gain, I absolutely will say so within the Talk Guidelines of this website. (FWIW I don't doubt MM had a miscarriage but I am deeply mistrustful of her motivations for writing about it in the NY Times - in fact, I'm pretty sure some parts of it were fabricated, and I think it's disgusting that she wrote that piece under the umbrella of supposedly addressing a taboo.)

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 15:18

SingingSonnets · 15/04/2025 15:13

Tbf, talking about mumsnet as a safe space is silly. It’s the internet, it’s not a safe space. Mumsnet allow this corner to get quite hateful but if you read posts about Meghan and Harry on other boards, you’ll see that it’s just a minority of people that think like the people on the RF board. Mumsnet allow it to stand because it gives them traffic. This board doesn’t reflect wider opinion.

I know that these threads don't reflect the wider opinion on these two. However, this is a platform targeted specifically at parents, mums especially, Is Mumsnet fine with something as serious and painful as pregnancy loss being ridiculed?

If this thread is allowed to stand and we set a precedent, what is to stop anyone who posts on here from being made fun of for losing a child. Where do we draw the line? This is for Mumsnet to decide.

PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 15/04/2025 15:20

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BunnyLake · 15/04/2025 15:26

Dolaly · 15/04/2025 14:43

She will use anything to get her a few column inches, we know she tends to embellish, so hard to know if the dramatic digging a grave by Harry with his bare hands is exactly what happened.

She really is a weird one, no doubt about it.

I do find her quite odd. She was odd on the Drew Barrymore show when talking about reading to the kids and the babysitter thing. I find myself unable to take anything she says at face value, whether it’s something big or something really small. My ex was like that, I could never just take what he said at face value because he had a habit of either lying or exaggerating over big things or stupidly small things, it became terrible for my mh. She triggers those memories in me.

Mylovelygreendress · 15/04/2025 15:31

Spectre8 · 15/04/2025 14:54

Alleged experienxe? So are you suggesting she didn't?

Meghan has been shown to tell a lot of lies so it’s hard to know the truth with her .
As I said , I feel for any woman who has had a miscarriage .

Lazycatsitsonthemat · 15/04/2025 15:35

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 14:54

I Will always encourage people to report, report, report. Is one thing to be critical about a celebrity, but making fun of someone' s pregnancy loss on a forum mainly target at parents is really a new low.
If you come across, something that makes you deeply disturbing then you should actually report.

There is no reason for what is supposed to be a safe space for women who have experienced or currently going through a miscarriage to allow threads like this to stand.

I can’t see anywhere where her miscarriage is ridiculed.

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 15:36

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Dolaly · 15/04/2025 15:48

I am sorry, but you would have to raise an eyebrow (or two) when someone is writing about their experience of a miscarriage, a very emotional and devastating time, to then find out she has used almost the exact same verbiage as an author who had her book printed about her experience of pregnancy loss, several years before Meghans article.

I don't know how anyone can think there is not something amiss about that.

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