Misogynist Jeremy Clarkson gets his comeuppance… but what can be done about the thousands of other Meghan/confident-woman haters?

I wish I knew the answer, OP...

What on earth are you on about???

And breathe.

To put things into perspective

Many millions of people don’t bother to read articles about Meghan.

It’s all rubbish. They fled from the media, are in the process of suing the media and they are suffering for that hence shitty articles.

I have nothing against them nor Clarkson!

In fact I love Clarkson and he was only joking

OP I couldn't get that het up about either of them...

It's a difficult one OP. Hating her is a multibillion dollar industry. Pays all the loser's bill. Slap her name in a headline and it will be clicked on. Even long forgotten z listers like Kelly Osbourne are seeking to revive interest in them using HER.

I don't think anyone really cares about M to the degree you think. I take part in these threads sometimes but otherwise am not thinking about her at all - why would anyone?

OP I agree with your overall concerns regarding not just this particular vile and degrading article and the persecution of Meghan but also the general problems we have with the overwhelming negativity on social media. I do not know what can be done about it, its an issue affecting society and not something any organisation or government can really tackle. We know it has led to severe mental health issues for a lot of people, famous or not, and sadly some suicides. The anonymity of platforms like this, twitter etc is part of the issue, most people don't go too overboard if using their own names. This board would be different if people actually had to be themselves.

Recently MNHQ have asked us to remember their guidelines, which include no deliberately inflammatory and goady posts, and no troll hunting- asking if someone is paid PR is considered troll hunting.

The IPSO finding is ridiculous, it was a joke, obviously not to everyone's taste (I thought it was funny), but no more sexist than it was racist. It was purely Meghan-ist.

You found that article funny! How disgusting.

Theres nothing funny about sexually violent and humiliating fantasies or hatred of another person you don't know. It's just disturbing.

It’s a combination of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, self-promotion and plain old envy. If you look at the profiles of many of these individuals you’ll find that they share a similar demographic. You would hope they’d be old enough to know better. Unfortunately only half of that sentence is true. However, saying that, I don’t think there are as many people who have an active dislike for H&M as some would lead us to believe. It seems to be a few determined individuals who employ underhand tactics, including creating multiple social media accounts, to relentlessly target the royal couple – as revealed by an investigation by the Twitter analytics service Bot Sentinel.
These same individuals also find asinine reasons to discredit anyone who utters a good word about the couple. On sites such as MN this usually follows them being reported. Be prepared OP.

It is quite eyebrow raising when there have been multiple articles of William or Kate out and about and pretty much zero new threads started about them scrutinising ror commenting oneach event, conversely if it had been H or M or both every single event would have seen multiple threads started on here.

Even when these past few weeks even months have been pretty 'quiet' you still see new threads popping up, albeit going back over old stuff.

Some people just love to hate and tear other ppl down and our media and social media fans the flames even further

Sick world we live in

Every day - there is an article about her regardless of the fact that she has been relatively low profile and silent. Thread after thread going over the same things over and over again. Repeated ways to be needlessly spiteful and give her no quarter. It’s never ending. Give this thread a minute @TallerSally - the Meghan “justified criticism” people will descend soon and find ways to justify the Clarkson’s language rhetoric.

If you look at the profiles of many of these individuals you’ll find that they share a similar demographic.

This is very true. I wonder if they genuinely thought either they or their daughters were Harry's bride-in-waiting. But their attitude towards Meghan doesn't shock me one bit when I consider all things about their general attitude regarding women they deem beneath them.

I don’t know how I feel about it to be honest. I thought the article was horrible when I read it. But I also recognised it was clearly a reference to a Game of Thrones scene. I really don’t like the latest trend of people taking jokes deadly seriously no matter how poor taste they are. I don’t think we even need taste to be policed.

I also don’t get the point of the IPSO ruling. We all know it’s sexist, it’s obvious. Does that mean that everything else they’re not ruling on isn’t sexist? Who died and put them in charge of deciding what we can call sexist?

I thought it was a horrible, stupid joke… but I also think this ruling was at best pointless, at worst massive overreach.

@TallerSally
Every has-been and non-entity seeking to raise their sagging or non-existent profile (Mia Farrow? Chris Rock? Millie Mackintosh? random Spotify exec? Z-list YouTuber?) just has to find some creative insult for Meghan like “grifter”,

What can restore some form of respect for the truth,

How about you getting your facts right for a start?

Bill Simmons called her and Harry a grifter.
He's not a has-been nor a non-entity. His profile isn't sagging and he doesn't need it raising.
He isn't a random Spotify exec. He sold them a podcast network that he built from the ground for $250m. It's the second podcast network he's built - the first was for that tiny and insignificant broadcaster ESPN. Oh and before that he was one of the most widely read sportswriters across the whole if the USA. And he got headhunted to work for Jimmy Kimmel as one of his writers based on the quality of the columns he wrote.

He not only created 2 podcast networks but he also does podcast broadcasts as well. When spotify bought his network, they gave him a job to carry on running The Ringer podcast network and increase it. Which he has done. He's now tasked with building up the network to cover European sports. And on top of all that, he does 4 podcasts a week.

He's also in the top 40 most influential podcasters. There's not much he doesn't know about podcasting and he's attempted to work with and help Harry. So I guess he knows more about their situation and their attitude to work than you do.

I get your zeal in standing up for Meghan and Harry, I might even acknowledge it's merited, but before you start discrediting other people who have worked hard and are genuinely talented maybe you should do a bit of research of the facts. Because when you talk about restoring respect for the truth maybe it should start with you.

You found it funny? You sound like an awful person tbh

IPSO sounds pointless....just like every 'body' in this declining country

You can basically do whatever the hell you want these days

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We keeping you up, love? Why don't you take yourself off to bed or, you know, scroll on by if it's so boring