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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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jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2025 17:45

As someone who has suffered the pain and loss of both miscarriages and infertility ( and judging by the demographic of mn I’m sure I’m in the majority!) , I’m actually finding the posts of that one poster to be the most triggering!!
shouting down and shaming posters for discussing something they have personally gone through is unpleasant and upsetting and taking screenshots completely uncalled for!
mn can see all posts deleted or not , they don’t need it!

RandyRedHumpback · 15/04/2025 17:46

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 17:35

My intention is not to dox anybody.
The reason for the screenshots was to have material to put in a complaint with Mumsnet. This is neither Reddit nor Tattle, and as a person who has been on the website for some time, I believe that a parenting website has the added responsibility compared to other platforms to draw the line when it comes to this kind of attitude towards pregnancy loss.

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You do not need to take screen shots of something only the mods have power to delete. They can see it. So you'll have to forgive my skepticism of your reasons for taking green shots.

No, Mumsnet has no more responsibility towards any issue whatsoever than any other social media site. And since women - and mothers - post all over the internet without fainting in the face of robust discussion , there is no need to infantilise the women who post on Mumsnet. We don't need to be protected from any discussion.

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 17:46

I will not be going back and forth with you.
You either have empathy or you don't ( deriding and doubting the account of a woman who had a pregnancy loss is despicable behaviour, I do not care whether the woman in question is a celebrity or an anonymous user )so going back and forth with users that are purposely being disingenuous is a complete waste of time.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 15/04/2025 17:50

HiRen · 15/04/2025 17:31

What problematic attitude towards pregnancy loss on this site (I disagree that it's just a parenting site at this point, it's much more than that - just ask all the users on here who don't have any children)? Is nobody allowed to question the veracity of an account of something by someone (so vague!)? Are you Donald Trump? What happened to critical thinking? Are we just supposed to accept blindly anything a person says because....what?

Who is being hateful? At what point is someone a "complete stranger" when they have willfully sought to publicise the most intimate details about their and other people's lives and seek, relentlessly, to be more and more "known" and use multiple occasions to get people to see the real her (in her own words)?

A person who doesn't have doubt is a person on a slippery slope to oblivion. I will always question and always doubt. Nobody is deriding MM for having suffered a miscarriage (it's not like she could have helped it, for goodness sake). If there's any derision it's about the fact that she publicized it, and how and why she publicized it.

I'm all for publicising it. I'm very open about my experiences in my personal life because I don't believe it should be hidden and I strongly believe women should feel able to talk about it.

I object to MM, a figure in the public eye who could do good if she chose to, has hijacked the experience and made it into a huge drama - I mean shout all of those whose husbands buried the foetus with his bare hands ffs!!! I cry bullshit! Her miscarriage had to be more dramatic, more heartfelt, nay elevated, above every other woman's!

That @LipglossAlly is what you should be directed your ire at. That the rest of us who had to get on with it, who had to mind our children, make the dinner, help with the homework, and go back to work had a lesser experience than the great MM!

@HiRen "If there's any derision it's about the fact that she publicized it, and how and why she publicized it." Absolutely, in a nutshell. She didn't talk about it to help other women going through this, or in support of miscarriage charities, or for any altruistic reason. She blatantly used it for self-publicity and that is what I think is "disgusting"!

RandyRedHumpback · 15/04/2025 17:51

Good, this discussion has had enough derailment.

As for empathy: describing a miscarriage in the same terms as a failing business is about as far from empathetic as it gets.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 15/04/2025 17:54

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 17:46

I will not be going back and forth with you.
You either have empathy or you don't ( deriding and doubting the account of a woman who had a pregnancy loss is despicable behaviour, I do not care whether the woman in question is a celebrity or an anonymous user )so going back and forth with users that are purposely being disingenuous is a complete waste of time.

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You've been doing that all afternoon.

I'm with @jeffgoldblum. I am also finding your posts triggering. And then you mention "empathy"? I'm sensing an empathy bypass here.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 15/04/2025 17:56

RandyRedHumpback · 15/04/2025 17:51

Good, this discussion has had enough derailment.

As for empathy: describing a miscarriage in the same terms as a failing business is about as far from empathetic as it gets.

I think we should continue the discussion and ignore the derail.

I'm deeply unimpressed with those posts and with MM's attitude!

Dalky · 15/04/2025 18:13

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 16:50

I think people should feel free to report posts and users that fail to comply with the guidelines. As a woman that has suffered two miscarriages, I find it shocking that other women would be making fun of a person who went through such trauma, if you don't then that is on you and says more about you than MM.

It is up to Mumsnet to decide whether their comfortable with platforming this kind of attitude towards pregnancy loss.

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Clearly they weren't comfortable platforming your stalkerish threats and accusations and have deleted your posts.

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 18:18

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Dalky · 15/04/2025 18:20

I will not hesitate to report other users/ threads in the future if I think that they are not complying with the guidelines.

Neither will I.....

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 18:21

Dalky · 15/04/2025 18:20

I will not hesitate to report other users/ threads in the future if I think that they are not complying with the guidelines.

Neither will I.....

Please do , I strongly encourage to report anything that may go against the guidelines and I would also encourage other users to the same ☺️

RandyRedHumpback · 15/04/2025 18:23

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 18:21

Please do , I strongly encourage to report anything that may go against the guidelines and I would also encourage other users to the same ☺️

Well since you have had 4 posts deleted this afternoon alone, maybe you should take your own advice about what you are posting, because clearly it is contravening guidelines.

Rhaidimiddim · 15/04/2025 18:25

Strudie · 15/04/2025 17:32

There seems to be so little interest in the podcast, there were very few reviews, and she barely seems to be promoting it? If it weren’t for the comments about her health making headlines in both episodes so far, I wonder if anyone would be talking about it at all? I can’t imagine a second series at this rate.

Even on this thread.

I dropped in to see what the verdict on the second episode was, and everybody's arguing about miscarriages.

Do I detect a (very suxxessful) derail?

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 15/04/2025 18:27

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Have they made you a moderator now?

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2025 18:27

Rhaidimiddim · 15/04/2025 18:25

Even on this thread.

I dropped in to see what the verdict on the second episode was, and everybody's arguing about miscarriages.

Do I detect a (very suxxessful) derail?

To be honest it’s put me off posting!

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 18:28

I had one post deleted which was quoted multiple times, the other posts were the ones that I reported and one that I did not even have to report.

I will also add that my only post which was deleted was regarding a screenshot of a comment that I found particularly disturbing and which goes against the guidelines. I have also explained that the screenshot was done in order to be able to put in a complaint in writing with clear examples of what in my opinion is a dismissive attitude towards pregnancy loss. As a parenting website it was for theme to decide how to proceed.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 15/04/2025 18:28

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 18:21

Please do , I strongly encourage to report anything that may go against the guidelines and I would also encourage other users to the same ☺️

Any chance you could drop the crusade for a bit and let the thread get back on track?

Rhaidimiddim · 15/04/2025 18:28

Could it be a deliberate strategy of MM's to have a shared health problem with each week's guest, that she can use to deflect criticism?

What's next week's medical issue gonna be?

LipglossAlly · 15/04/2025 18:28

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jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2025 18:29

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Unless you are an official mn mod , nobody can see deleted posts , so looking hard at a deleted post proves nothing at all!

Dalky · 15/04/2025 18:30

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2025 18:27

To be honest it’s put me off posting!

Thats quite possibly the objective.

PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 15/04/2025 18:31

Rhaidimiddim · 15/04/2025 18:28

Could it be a deliberate strategy of MM's to have a shared health problem with each week's guest, that she can use to deflect criticism?

What's next week's medical issue gonna be?

Well, upthread a suggestion from the DM comments was apparently plague and typhoid.

I found this very funny, which of course means I am an Absolutely Terrible Person.

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2025 18:31

Dalky · 15/04/2025 18:30

Thats quite possibly the objective.

I suspect it is !
and I’m probably not alone in giving this thread a swerve.

Strudie · 15/04/2025 18:32

Rhaidimiddim · 15/04/2025 18:25

Even on this thread.

I dropped in to see what the verdict on the second episode was, and everybody's arguing about miscarriages.

Do I detect a (very suxxessful) derail?

I really wish people would just ignore it. Let them talk to themselves.

RandyRedHumpback · 15/04/2025 18:33

I suggest we all just ignore the continued derail.

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