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Do you think some of you are addicted to hating Harry and Meghan?

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wowwhataday · 11/05/2025 09:33

More and more these manic threads are popping up on mumsnet, wild posts and theories and then hundreds of posts brimming with excitement about catching them out or exposing them. It’s like a game or a hunt. Have many of you crossed the line from interested to addicted?

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Baital · 13/05/2025 22:46

Best not to engage, Jeff. We can all see the pattern.

Love you, love your work ❤️

And sending support to bao - I think we disagree on a lot! But your experience must have been horrible. There's no justification for that, whatever your opinions.

Let's debate the issues, not attack each other. We all post to entertain ourselves. We all have other lives outside MN, and want to fit some chat into our otherwise full (sometimes too full!) lives.

RandyRedHumpback · 13/05/2025 23:25

Best not to engage, Jeff. We can all see the pattern.

I agree.

BemusedAmerican · 13/05/2025 23:36

So do I.

BigWillyLittleTodger · 13/05/2025 23:50

I also agree 🙋🏻‍♀️ hope you are ok Jeff.

jeffgoldblum · 13/05/2025 23:54

BigWillyLittleTodger · 13/05/2025 23:50

I also agree 🙋🏻‍♀️ hope you are ok Jeff.

I’m fine thankyou @BigWillyLittleTodger, @RandyRedHumpbackand @BemusedAmerican,
I’ve been here quite a while and as I said , much , much earlier, I’ve never name changed , I’m used to posters targeting me !!
I find it almost amusing! And I’d rather it was me than someone who would take it to heart.❤️

Spectre8 · 14/05/2025 00:23

jeffgoldblum · 13/05/2025 22:43

I haven’t reported and I ask that no one else does too!
I want these posts to stand , so that people can see the relentless attacks that critical posters face from h and m supporters!!

I have repeatedly told you I am not a H&M supporter and thay just because I don't want to gossip like you do about them doesn't make me a supporter. Yet you keep on ignoring that and repeatedly say I'm a supporter. If you dont even have basic respect to accept a person telling you they aren't then don't expect to be treated either respect back.

So how many times will you keep posting I'm a supporter when I've categorically told you I'm not? Everyone can now see it so will you stop?

Spectre8 · 14/05/2025 00:25

Yes let's all have sympathy for Jeff meanwhile ifnore the fact they have been attacking me by repeatedly posting I'm vile and not to engage with me on several threads all bexause they read a comment I wrote and twisted it to say i said something that I never did.. never could show the evidence of it either.

IAmATorturedPoet · 14/05/2025 00:27

RandyRedHumpback · 13/05/2025 23:25

Best not to engage, Jeff. We can all see the pattern.

I agree.

Yes, definitely a pattern.
Pleased to hear all is ok with you, Jeff 💐

jeffgoldblum · 14/05/2025 00:38

IAmATorturedPoet · 14/05/2025 00:27

Yes, definitely a pattern.
Pleased to hear all is ok with you, Jeff 💐

Many thanks @IAmATorturedPoet!
I’m great! , it’s all circuses and horses! 😀

prelovedusername · 14/05/2025 04:22

jeffgoldblum · 13/05/2025 22:43

I haven’t reported and I ask that no one else does too!
I want these posts to stand , so that people can see the relentless attacks that critical posters face from h and m supporters!!

Noted @jeffgoldblum. And I also wanted to highlight your excellent point:

if your main defence involves attacking others then you aren’t lifting them up , you are pulling others down .
And it’s not enough to complain that you get called things so it doesn’t matter!

I’m heartily sick of posters who come on only to make snide comments about “another thread bashing Meghan” or “ripping her apart”. If they have something constructive to say about her which might change opinion I’d be all ears. They never do.

The irony of leaping to the defence of a toxic stranger who wouldn’t give you the time of day but attacking posters for expressing a view you don’t like is mind blowing.

CoffeeCantata · 14/05/2025 07:15

I'd call myself 'a H & M sceptic' - someone who rolls their eyes at the bs which emanates from them. I resent the term 'hater' because it's lazy and reductive. I remember when I was teaching, I tried to get children to widen their vocabulary from just the adjective 'sad' to describe all manner of negative feelings. It's the lack of nuance which I object to.

Here's a controversial observation, but it's a genuine one (and no, I can't back it up with stats): the nastiest posts I've seen on the RF board, which descend to personal attacks and abuse, have come almost exclusively from H & M supporters. This has pretty much stopped, but over the past few years when feelings ran very high it was noticeable.

Yes - there's a tedious roll-call of dim responses on here from H & M supporters, but rarely any kind of reasoned or informed argument. As pps have said, perhaps the most irritating is 'you don't know anything about Meghan/them'. I pointed out recently that of course we did! After interviews, Spare, the Netflix doc, many, many podcasts and speeches...Harry and especially Meghan never shut up about themselves. So either we DO know plenty about them (sometimes far more than we need to know...) OR they've both been lying systematically for years. It's got to be either/or, hasn't it? Needless to say the poster then disappeared in a huff calling me a hater. It really is like playing chess with pigeons.

All I ask is...if you really do like them and you think the criticism is unfair then take the trouble to formulate your arguments. But don't come on the RF board just to insult other posters.

Samcro · 14/05/2025 07:25

“another thread bashing Meghan” or “ripping her apart”

I often post that. because its true. this topic should be renamed. 99% of the threads are ones doing just that.
back to the name calling. I think as a "pro" poster I notice the ones directed at "pro" posters as there are so few of us. you have to be brave these days to run the gauntlet.
@Spectre8 why could you not just apologise.......

FenellaFeldman · 14/05/2025 07:28

Yes but the "bashing" and "ripping apart" is a crass and blunt over exaggeration, bearing in mind how the discussions go.
It's that intemperate language which is a problem.

Thecatsatonthemats · 14/05/2025 07:34

CoffeeCantata · 14/05/2025 07:15

I'd call myself 'a H & M sceptic' - someone who rolls their eyes at the bs which emanates from them. I resent the term 'hater' because it's lazy and reductive. I remember when I was teaching, I tried to get children to widen their vocabulary from just the adjective 'sad' to describe all manner of negative feelings. It's the lack of nuance which I object to.

Here's a controversial observation, but it's a genuine one (and no, I can't back it up with stats): the nastiest posts I've seen on the RF board, which descend to personal attacks and abuse, have come almost exclusively from H & M supporters. This has pretty much stopped, but over the past few years when feelings ran very high it was noticeable.

Yes - there's a tedious roll-call of dim responses on here from H & M supporters, but rarely any kind of reasoned or informed argument. As pps have said, perhaps the most irritating is 'you don't know anything about Meghan/them'. I pointed out recently that of course we did! After interviews, Spare, the Netflix doc, many, many podcasts and speeches...Harry and especially Meghan never shut up about themselves. So either we DO know plenty about them (sometimes far more than we need to know...) OR they've both been lying systematically for years. It's got to be either/or, hasn't it? Needless to say the poster then disappeared in a huff calling me a hater. It really is like playing chess with pigeons.

All I ask is...if you really do like them and you think the criticism is unfair then take the trouble to formulate your arguments. But don't come on the RF board just to insult other posters.

Well said.

Samcro · 14/05/2025 07:39

FenellaFeldman · 14/05/2025 07:28

Yes but the "bashing" and "ripping apart" is a crass and blunt over exaggeration, bearing in mind how the discussions go.
It's that intemperate language which is a problem.

its true though, some of the stuff that is said about them is bashing and ripping them apart.

FenellaFeldman · 14/05/2025 07:40

Samcro · 14/05/2025 07:39

its true though, some of the stuff that is said about them is bashing and ripping them apart.

No it's not. Why use such extreme language?
It's such hyperbole.

FenellaFeldman · 14/05/2025 07:41

Harry and Meghan are very controversial, very high profile celebrities. They have made a lot of money trashing others. They will be criticised.
Just because they're royal doesn't put them above anyone else.

RandyRedHumpback · 14/05/2025 07:41

CoffeeCantata · 14/05/2025 07:15

I'd call myself 'a H & M sceptic' - someone who rolls their eyes at the bs which emanates from them. I resent the term 'hater' because it's lazy and reductive. I remember when I was teaching, I tried to get children to widen their vocabulary from just the adjective 'sad' to describe all manner of negative feelings. It's the lack of nuance which I object to.

Here's a controversial observation, but it's a genuine one (and no, I can't back it up with stats): the nastiest posts I've seen on the RF board, which descend to personal attacks and abuse, have come almost exclusively from H & M supporters. This has pretty much stopped, but over the past few years when feelings ran very high it was noticeable.

Yes - there's a tedious roll-call of dim responses on here from H & M supporters, but rarely any kind of reasoned or informed argument. As pps have said, perhaps the most irritating is 'you don't know anything about Meghan/them'. I pointed out recently that of course we did! After interviews, Spare, the Netflix doc, many, many podcasts and speeches...Harry and especially Meghan never shut up about themselves. So either we DO know plenty about them (sometimes far more than we need to know...) OR they've both been lying systematically for years. It's got to be either/or, hasn't it? Needless to say the poster then disappeared in a huff calling me a hater. It really is like playing chess with pigeons.

All I ask is...if you really do like them and you think the criticism is unfair then take the trouble to formulate your arguments. But don't come on the RF board just to insult other posters.

So good it's worth quoting when I say, great post @CoffeeCantata !

prelovedusername · 14/05/2025 07:41

Samcro · 14/05/2025 07:25

“another thread bashing Meghan” or “ripping her apart”

I often post that. because its true. this topic should be renamed. 99% of the threads are ones doing just that.
back to the name calling. I think as a "pro" poster I notice the ones directed at "pro" posters as there are so few of us. you have to be brave these days to run the gauntlet.
@Spectre8 why could you not just apologise.......

If you have something to say in support of Meghan Markle you have every right to post it and be heard. Honestly, I’d love to hear a reasoned argument. And yes, you will get pushback but hopefully intelligent and considered counter argument, not just insults.

Coming on solely for the purpose of scolding other posters is an attack on them, not a defence of her. It adds nothing to the thread that’s of any use to anybody so why do it? As supporters so often say, why do you care? Why not scroll on by?

FenellaFeldman · 14/05/2025 07:43

Yes, just the same old "you're bashing her", "you're ripping her apart", but nothing nuanced, nothing brought to the discussion, apart from a scolding.

Serenster · 14/05/2025 07:43

I notice the ones directed at "pro" posters as there are so few of us. you have to be brave these days to run the gauntlet.

Playing the victim like this is unwarranted. As others have said, those of us who have been here for a while have faced all sorts of personal abuse for daring to express critical views of the Sussexes’ action.

prelovedusername · 14/05/2025 07:50

I’ve been in the minority on threads, it is uncomfortable.

But I’ve never been on a thread just to tell everyone else what horrible people they are.

CoffeeCantata · 14/05/2025 07:51

Samcro · 14/05/2025 07:39

its true though, some of the stuff that is said about them is bashing and ripping them apart.

Not an original question, I know, but - how would you describe what they said about William, Catherine, Charles and Camilla?

I'm not advocating 'ripping apart' anyone. The point I'm making is that their supporters seem to ignore the shattering things they've said and done to others and see them as sweet, innocent victims.

Same when people suggest the RF should just kiss and make up with them. It's a complete failure to understand/acknowledge the impact of H & M's behaviour.

Baital · 14/05/2025 07:52

Samcro · 14/05/2025 07:39

its true though, some of the stuff that is said about them is bashing and ripping them apart.

Then select those comments and reply to them specifically, and explain why those comments are unfair and over the top.

As opposed to saying all criticism is 'bashing' and unjustified

Munnygirl · 14/05/2025 07:55

Samcro · 14/05/2025 07:39

its true though, some of the stuff that is said about them is bashing and ripping them apart.

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