Add victimhood to the list. Whatever you may say about the boomers, Martha and the ladies of her generation faced real sexism and wouldn’t be caught dead crying in public about it.
Of course Meghan was unhappy in the Royal family. What financially independent 36-year-old with zero love for Britain would want to be in that setup? But she couldn’t just leave because it sucked. She had to be suicidal (!) from his racist family (for which the evidence was very thin) and media criticism. It was all so contrived to create a victimhood narrative for the most privileged people on the planet.
I dislike the "privilege discourse" promoted by the New "Left", but these two people are poster children of actual privilege. Rich beyond imagining, with a husband who is an actual *duke* in the Feudal sense of the word and an incredibly rich wife... And yet they just complain and complain and complain. Even %1 of his 60 million USD net worth would permit most of us commoners to live in leisure... And he did not really work even one day for that fortune.
(His brother, an actual *prince*, is worth a friggin' 1 billion USD!)
So, why don't they shut up and live like, well, kings on their fortune, without all the whining?
I think some of their fortune was cut when they cut ties with the royal family, so they had to figure out a way to *gasp* fund their extravagant lifestyle by doing something other than exist.
Harry and Meghan ware exactly what you label them, Jill-grifters. All they care about is attention and money. Harry is a whiny, entitled brat whom his esteemed mother would be ashamed of if she were alive today. There is also no way Princess Diana would ever have approved of Meghan Markle. No one dislikes Meghan because she is a woman or biracial. She is disliked because she is fake, greedy, an attention hog, a liar, and pretends to be a victim (which no one buys). Prince William and Kate Middleton would've made Diana so proud. Not so much with Harry and Meghan. On another note, if Meghan wants to know what it's like to actually be a victim of sexism and racism she needs to read about the lives of women like Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan, Dr. Katharine Johnson, Dr. Margaret Hamilton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Delores Huerta, Rachel Carson, Rosa Parks, Sandra Day O'Connor, and the 6668th Central Postal Directory Battalion during WWII.
Hi this is great! You put into words why these two grifters are so annoying. Joking aside something I find pretty awful is ‘splitting’ your spouse or loved one from his/her family of origin. It’s really a terrible thing to do and is a sign of coercive control over that person. She did it to her husband harry. Pushed and pushed for the split with his Dad and brother.
I’m no fan of the royals - any of them - if only for their despicable history, leaching off a fawning public and punishing their pedophile rapist relative with a severe tsk-tsking. This piece, however, is incredibly and unnecessarily mean-spirited. Markle/Sussex (whatever … really … whatever … if it makes her happy … whatever …) had a thriving career, made her own money and way, fell in love with a guy who (aside from one foul costume choice in his teens (what? No one has a mirror or staff in the castle?) from a super racist family (who hates his alive mom and still hates his dead mom because she tried to chart her own course) and who made her life miserable … (why? Because she’s Black and has good teeth and has actually done some decent “community” oriented work and made good use of her status that you did not mention) chose - wth her husband/partner (what’re, I mean really, whatever) to stand up to the vileness of that particular family and institution and be blatant enough to use them to her/their advantage. Could they have chosen something else? Perhaps. But neither of them have been particularly vile or vulgar - and certainly not in the way of so many of in the lowest forms of American “culture” (housewive, Bachelors, bug-eaters, decrypt ex-lawyers in costumes, families that name their kids KKK and have turned the millennial whine and influencing the peddling of the whine, self-importance and kvetching into an art form. Comparing Megan to Martha? Really? The woman who sold us on a hypocritical complex of perfection, made billions by suckering-in women (in particular) and went to jail for corrupt behaviour … And I don’t even dislike her all that much! Nah … (and ya, you may take offence because I disagree with your point of view again, on a rare occasion) but it’s not as a non-boomer or non-millennial, but just because it is unnecessarily mean. It’s disheartening when women look to and contribute to encouraging other women (who are not MTG, Palin, Ivanka, a Kardashian) to fail and take a sort of glee in it.
Add victimhood to the list. Whatever you may say about the boomers, Martha and the ladies of her generation faced real sexism and wouldn’t be caught dead crying in public about it.
Of course Meghan was unhappy in the Royal family. What financially independent 36-year-old with zero love for Britain would want to be in that setup? But she couldn’t just leave because it sucked. She had to be suicidal (!) from his racist family (for which the evidence was very thin) and media criticism. It was all so contrived to create a victimhood narrative for the most privileged people on the planet.
“I didn’t know they were racist!”
*married into the family that literally invented racism*
Jill, you need to market yourself as a professional takedown-er. People could hire you for $100 million to do something genuinely useful 👍👍
If only there were an $100 million market for that! I would be set for life!!!
I dislike the "privilege discourse" promoted by the New "Left", but these two people are poster children of actual privilege. Rich beyond imagining, with a husband who is an actual *duke* in the Feudal sense of the word and an incredibly rich wife... And yet they just complain and complain and complain. Even %1 of his 60 million USD net worth would permit most of us commoners to live in leisure... And he did not really work even one day for that fortune.
(His brother, an actual *prince*, is worth a friggin' 1 billion USD!)
So, why don't they shut up and live like, well, kings on their fortune, without all the whining?
I think some of their fortune was cut when they cut ties with the royal family, so they had to figure out a way to *gasp* fund their extravagant lifestyle by doing something other than exist.
Perfect. You nailed it.
Very funny and not mean-spirited at all. Right on (a boomer expression :-)
This article is a million times more entertaining than 42 seconds of Meghan Markle's rainbow fruit platter trailer!
I am so glad!!! Can I have $100 million now? =P
"One day, they will fade into obsolescence"
Oh, they've long past obsolescence ..but unmercifully haven't gotten around to the 'fading' part yet.
Harry and Meghan ware exactly what you label them, Jill-grifters. All they care about is attention and money. Harry is a whiny, entitled brat whom his esteemed mother would be ashamed of if she were alive today. There is also no way Princess Diana would ever have approved of Meghan Markle. No one dislikes Meghan because she is a woman or biracial. She is disliked because she is fake, greedy, an attention hog, a liar, and pretends to be a victim (which no one buys). Prince William and Kate Middleton would've made Diana so proud. Not so much with Harry and Meghan. On another note, if Meghan wants to know what it's like to actually be a victim of sexism and racism she needs to read about the lives of women like Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan, Dr. Katharine Johnson, Dr. Margaret Hamilton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Delores Huerta, Rachel Carson, Rosa Parks, Sandra Day O'Connor, and the 6668th Central Postal Directory Battalion during WWII.
Hi this is great! You put into words why these two grifters are so annoying. Joking aside something I find pretty awful is ‘splitting’ your spouse or loved one from his/her family of origin. It’s really a terrible thing to do and is a sign of coercive control over that person. She did it to her husband harry. Pushed and pushed for the split with his Dad and brother.
Well, I mean, her husband had some equity in that decision - he is after all a grown man...
I do agree but there is a specific type who preys on any type of intrafamial conflict and turns into into a ‘them or me’ situation.
I’m no fan of the royals - any of them - if only for their despicable history, leaching off a fawning public and punishing their pedophile rapist relative with a severe tsk-tsking. This piece, however, is incredibly and unnecessarily mean-spirited. Markle/Sussex (whatever … really … whatever … if it makes her happy … whatever …) had a thriving career, made her own money and way, fell in love with a guy who (aside from one foul costume choice in his teens (what? No one has a mirror or staff in the castle?) from a super racist family (who hates his alive mom and still hates his dead mom because she tried to chart her own course) and who made her life miserable … (why? Because she’s Black and has good teeth and has actually done some decent “community” oriented work and made good use of her status that you did not mention) chose - wth her husband/partner (what’re, I mean really, whatever) to stand up to the vileness of that particular family and institution and be blatant enough to use them to her/their advantage. Could they have chosen something else? Perhaps. But neither of them have been particularly vile or vulgar - and certainly not in the way of so many of in the lowest forms of American “culture” (housewive, Bachelors, bug-eaters, decrypt ex-lawyers in costumes, families that name their kids KKK and have turned the millennial whine and influencing the peddling of the whine, self-importance and kvetching into an art form. Comparing Megan to Martha? Really? The woman who sold us on a hypocritical complex of perfection, made billions by suckering-in women (in particular) and went to jail for corrupt behaviour … And I don’t even dislike her all that much! Nah … (and ya, you may take offence because I disagree with your point of view again, on a rare occasion) but it’s not as a non-boomer or non-millennial, but just because it is unnecessarily mean. It’s disheartening when women look to and contribute to encouraging other women (who are not MTG, Palin, Ivanka, a Kardashian) to fail and take a sort of glee in it.