Wow, what a great comment. Well said.
Killjoy says:
If the British taxpayers really cared about wasted money on this nonsense, they’d dissolve the monarchy. Instead, they (and the commenters on this site) act like they get their value when Kate does x more appearances a month, or when she finally cuts an inch or two off her hair.
Like the millions spent on this would be worth it if she just acted in accordance to Joe Schmoe’s idea of how many appearances she should do, and how broadly she needs to smile, blah blah blah. I think people – especially us gossip lovers – are just looking for excuses to tear someone down and feel superior (“if I were a royal, I’d surely x, y, z! The nerve!”).
It’s like we feel like we’ve gotten a free pass to police these women in ways we don’t typically do to other women in 2018, and justify it based on “this is what they signed up for.” It doesn’t make what we’re doing right. If the monarchy shouldn’t exist, it shouldn’t exist. But let’s not act like a leg slit is going to be the downfall of the free world.
Thanks!
I am with you there. People are mad at Trump and they take it out on Melania. I am not really all that excited about further promotion of the stereotype of Eastern European women as shady escorts and more. And Melania shouldn’t even have been in the firing range, so to speak. She is not a public figure.It was forced on her, She didn’t run for a president. Politicians families should be out of limits.
And that cuts both ways, by the way. I also despise politicians who drag their wives and children out to protect them, when they are accused of sexual misconduct.
Politicians families shouldn’t be pawns or lightning rods in the political games. Being a politician is a job, and the family should be left out of it.
Kaiser does it with all celebrities she doesn’t like. She also misrepresents things on purpose to create additional controversy.
She was called out on it once by one of the regulars, and offered an unconvincing explanation as to why she chose the pictures she did, and then kept on doing it.
I noticed it too. Five royal posts a day, talking about the same thing, with hundreds of comments. And the other posts barely have any comments.
As someone said earlier, Celebitchy might as well rebrand itself as a royal blog.
I am pretty sure they also take money from some celebrities to promote them. They also have ads on their site, but maybe these are google ads, I am not sure.They can’t be making that much money from clicks.
Only royal posts have any decent traffic from Meghan’s fans. Before Meghan appeared they spend half a year doing anti-Trump posts, but now it is over. In a few months they will have to find another hot topic or they will be in real trouble.
I completely agree, but I already saw something on CB about Meghan’s case being different.
Americans are raised to be workaholics, and for many the job is their raison d’etre. They work themselves to death and cannot understand why others think it is crazy. In fact, they tend to think that anyone no willing to work themselves to death is “lazy”. American corporations sure love this kind of mentality.
Here is a good article explaining why the first lady role and expectations that come with it is harmful for women.
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Michelle ObamaMrs Obama made a great job of being first spouse. But why the need to play consort?
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I don’t really agree that the office of the First Lady is useful in any way, Smart and capable women like Michele and Hillary were forced to hide their true nature, and pretend to have little ambition. What is good about that? And those who are not qualified at all, like Melania, shouldn’t be in the position to influence anything. Also,don’t forget Michele also didn’t want to the the first lady and had to sacrifice a lot for the sake of her husband’s career. I don’t think it is right.
I’d like to thank Melania Trump for demonstrating so well why the un-elected, archaic office of the US first lady shouldn’t exist. The fact that the other first ladies wielded the power and influence behind the closed doors and more diplomatically doesn’t make it any better. None of them were elected and shouldn’t have been involved in the politics at all.
As for calling Melania silly names like Malaria, it is just silly. Here we have a woman who never wanted to be the first lady, the position was foisted on her. And then people are unhappy with her? What they should be unhappy about is that in this day and age so many Americans still consider the wife just a free addition to her husband. Who should stand by his side, look nice and smile prettily.
Gigi La Moore says:
I have had to rethink my opinion about W., especially since Trump. No, I don’t agree with him about everything and he authorized some things that were damaging and we are feeling the effects to this day. However, I have never questioned the man’s humanity, so I can see why Michelle likes him. It is crazy that Kanye could be so bold to call W. out yet be onboard with Trump. Sigh…what crazy times
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OK, what is WRONG with some people? No, W. Bush is not better than Trump. W. Bush is directly responsible for millions of innocent civilians deaths. Trump, as awful as he is, cannot be accused of being responsible for millions of innocent people’s deaths yet. So, even if you are using Trump is a measuring stick, W. Bush is a monster many times over. If he wasn’t a monster, he wouldn’t be able to live with himself after what he’s done and would be doing everything he can to help civilians suffering from wars, like the one in Yemen, for example.
Nobody complains, Kaiser moderates everything she doesn’t like, and usually it happens in 10-15 min, or even sooner.
In the Kanye vs. Lorde set design drama. whose side Kaiser automatically takes? Kanye’s, of course! Have to earn that Kardashian money.
Ocasio-Cortez post is such a trainwreck, You would think CB posters be supportive of a progressive WOC making name for herself and bringing up important issues, which matter to regular people. But, nope. Apparently her “Bernie stench” ruins it for them. Un-freaking-believable.
When I read the tiara gossip, I thought - is that the kind of ridiculous palace intrigue Meghan has to put up with now, and then keep on smiling and thanking everyone involved, including the back stabbers? Her acting skills sure will come handy. Hopefully she knew what she was getting into.
It is a combination of blocking of long time readers, thus cutting repeating visits to their site and destroying the existing community, and Kaiser’s lazy writing, which means it is hard to attract new readers,
Thank you for the kind words!
You are welcome! And thank you.
I was just thinking today that maybe my blog is not needed anymore. CB seems dead. A Tom Hiddleston post with only 30 comments? That never happened before. A Mary Poppins post got all of 2 comments. The only posts that get any attention is Meghan and Trump posts, of which there are 3 a day. But eventually people will move on.
It is a difficult issue to discuss. But I want to brag a little bit about my county, and the black girl magic and hopefully lighten the mood a little bit. ))) We did good - 19 black women elected judges out of 19 that ran in my county. Not all of Texas is deep red, and not all of it is hopeless.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/08/black-women-texas-judge-harris-county
I really don’t believe anybody should be held responsible for other people’s choices just because they share the same skin color. But every decent person, regardless of their skin color, should be helping those who are oppressed or disadvantaged.
“A says:
I really hate to be the ahole here, because I know that a great deal of you in Texas and in other parts worked very hard on these elections and with getting the vote out and educating people on issues. And far be it from me to bring race into this conversation so quickly, but exit polls indicate that roughly 60% of white women in Texas who voted, voted for Ted Cruz. The numbers are even worse for the governor’s election in Georgia, where 76% of the white women who voted voted for Kemp over Stacey Abrams.”
I really don’t understand how something like this is helpful, and this is peak Celebitchy right here. What is point of this comment? I am a white woman in Texas who voted for Beto, I knew it was a long shot, this is Texas after all. But I did my part in bringing the vote to only 3% difference between Beto and Cruz. And, of course, I was disappointed that it wasn’t enough.
So, now let’s beat women like me, who are already facing the uphill battle in Texas, over the head with the fact that Texas is a deep red state where a lot of people vote Republican. Because that is going to make me feel so much better!
And this is not even about race. Beto is a white American, while Cruz is hispanic. Cruz is actually a minority here. This is about class - rich vs. poor. Wealthy people vote Republican, evangelicals vote Republican, and yes, most of those people are white.
Sometimes progressives in the US don’t see the forest for the trees. Some of them are conditioned to see everything in terms of racial or sexual discrimination and they are completely oblivious to the main societal struggle - the wealth inequality struggle. And this CB comment is a prime example of that.
Additionally, according to the stats 71% of white men voted for Cruz, and 59% of white women, So, actually more men voted for Cruz , but in the usual Celebitchy fashion, it is only women who get grief.
The Kate hate is nothing new, but it did get more vicious since Meghan appeared.
I know why people come here - they want to voice their opinion. And they are not allowed to do so on CB. Since this is why I created this blog to begin with, I am completely fine with that.
As far as royalty is concerned, I think it is an insult to all of us who are not aristo. I mentioned this before, - accepting aristocracy and royalty as normal means you accept that your station in life is lower than theirs simply because you weren’t born to the “right” parents, and that some people are simply better than others because of their genes. I will never accept that. It might upset some people, but this line of thinking is not far from racism and has no place in the modern world.
Yeah, I don’t know. It is obviously a joke.
What happened to the post where Kaiser said something along the lines that braids are inappropriate for Sam Johnson’s age and statue? I wanted to check it out again, and I can’t find it. Is it gone?
Anyway, I loved Sam’s braids and her dress. And, yeah. Kaiser your shouldn’t be telling women what is appropriate and what is not “for their age”. I also loved Emily Blunt’s dress - it is comfortable and interesting at the same time. It is something I would wear.
A couple thoughts on whether Meghan voted or not - if she is still a US citizen then she technically could, but I don’t think she did. It just wouldn’t be proper.
As a naturalized US citizen I had to take an Oath of Allegiance, which is sort of assumed for people born in the US. Among other things it has a part which states “I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty “, and Meghan is literally married to a foreign prince.
I think Meghan’s American fans see her as an American, but Meghan is no longer an American, she gave it up.
Also, I think long-term Meghan will not be able to keep the US citizenship. Some people don’t realize but the US is different from all other countries when it comes to taxes and financial reporting. The US taxes worldwide income, which no other developed country does, so Meghan would have to declare all her income from the British crown, all the presents, all her foreign bank accounts, and then pay US taxes on that income. This is the reason so many Americans living abroad are renouncing the US citizenship. I am just not sure the BRF would like that long-term, I doubt they like the IRS having an inside look at their books and having authority to audit them through Meghan being a US citizen. I am sure all of this had been discussed and agreed upon with Meghan before marriage.
I want to chime in on the criticism of Keira’s and her opinion that Disney princess movies are damaging.
I grew up outside of the US, in a different culture, and I didn’t watch Disney movies until I was pretty much an adult. And …. I found them boring, silly and irrelevant. I do think they can be damaging to a young child who cannot process them critically.
Speaking specifically about Hans Andersen’s fairy tales, my favorite one is about the Ice Queen, Hans and Gerda. Gerda is the young girl who embarks on a journey through tundra and through unknown lands to save Hans from the Ice Queen, and when she finds him , she melts his frozen heart with love. This is a wonderful story where a girl has agency, she is brave, strong, capable and loving. She gets to ride a polar bear, how cool is that? ))) I wonder why Disney never thought of animating it?
Women who say that they grew up with Disney and they turned out fine, in my opinion, don’t fully understand how young children learn. Children absorb what they see as sponges and what they see is “normal” to them. You can’t really have critical conversations about pros and cons with young children. Sure, it is possible to overcome those messages we received as young children, but why do it if it is possible to avoid damaging messages? As I said, I didn’t watch Disney as a child and I think I am better for it. So, I am with Keira on this one.
Ha! I liked that most posters disagreed with Kaiser’s assessment of the Gwyneth’s dress as “basic”. It is an elegant. classic dress, well suited for the character of the wedding.
As I said earlier, Kaiser doesn’t really have fashion sense. She only pretends to be a fashion expert so that she can use it as a weapon in her “fight” against those she doesn’t like.
I got banned twice because I don’t worship Angelina nor hate Duchess Kate. We all know how much Kaiser hates Kate for no reason, but I think her adoration of Angelia Jolie is way unhealthier. She is some kind of untouchable goddess there and Brad Pitt is more monster than Weinstein. Most commentors on all these Jolie-Pitt stories sound deranged: Maya!
Jolie posts are even more creepy than the royal posts.
Kaiser only cares for the unholy trio Jolie, Kate and Meghan.
Very true.