If the people at Vogue UK were very angry at Meghan Markle - she has, after all, been working with them since January, and must have thrown at least one or two teacups at editorial assistants during all that time - their attempt at revenge might be the newly-published interview with Michelle Obama.
The revenge would be not editing it.
The text that was released today is breathless, giddy, and overstuffed. In particular, Meg's intro makes her sound like a moron.
In formulating the content of the Forces for Change issue, I knew that I wanted to create a magazine that would speak not just to where we are, but to where we hope to be. In doing so, I knew we needed to both open and close strong. Like a beautiful meal: the first bite sets the tone and the final spoonful leaves you satiated, smiling, and sometimes (if you’re dining under the direction of a forward-thinking chef) even inspired. So how could I bring this issue to its logical conclusion? How could I meet that very lofty self-imposed goal?
The answer, of course, was an interview with Michelle Obama, America's most media-friendly First Lady.
She wrote some nice responses via email, or her assistant did, to Meg's insipid questions.
"What advice do you give your daughters?" "What has motherhood taught you?" "What advice would you give your 15-year-old self?"
Meg writes:
What was sent back to me...left me somewhat speechless. A few “simple questions” (which she could have answered with a sentence or two) were returned to me as a thoughtful, reflective and beautifully curated narrative – a gentle reminder not of how but of why she has become such a globally respected public figure.
I share all this with you as a disclaimer of sorts: had I known Michelle would be so generous in making this a comprehensive interview my questions would have been lengthier, more probing, more engaging. I would have called her and included the banter on these pages – the laughs and sighs and ping-pong of dialogue as I chimed in.
I guess that's what "somewhat speechless" sounds like in Meg's world. There, speechlessness is very wordy; if I didn't know she had other sources of income, I might think she was getting paid by the word.
A good editor often makes text much better than it could have otherwise been: Maxwell Perkins was supposedly the real genius behind F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway, and Kafka would have remained an obscure insurance clerk if it weren't for Max Brod.
I am guessing that Meg thought she didn't need an editor (except for spellchecking), and it was a cruel Vogue UK employee who let her have her way.
Someone who cared about Meg wouldn't have let her end her presentation of her email pen pal like this:
To my former First Lady, and now friend, Michelle - thank you.
You can read the full interview here:
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/michelle-obama-duchess-of-sussex-interview-2019
The revenge would be not editing it.
The text that was released today is breathless, giddy, and overstuffed. In particular, Meg's intro makes her sound like a moron.
In formulating the content of the Forces for Change issue, I knew that I wanted to create a magazine that would speak not just to where we are, but to where we hope to be. In doing so, I knew we needed to both open and close strong. Like a beautiful meal: the first bite sets the tone and the final spoonful leaves you satiated, smiling, and sometimes (if you’re dining under the direction of a forward-thinking chef) even inspired. So how could I bring this issue to its logical conclusion? How could I meet that very lofty self-imposed goal?
The answer, of course, was an interview with Michelle Obama, America's most media-friendly First Lady.
Michelle does fine
Michelle still has a book to sell, plus some Netflix series coming up, so she did the minimum required to keep the peace with Vogue UK and with what may be common PR contacts.She wrote some nice responses via email, or her assistant did, to Meg's insipid questions.
"What advice do you give your daughters?" "What has motherhood taught you?" "What advice would you give your 15-year-old self?"
Somewhat speechless
Too late, Meg herself seems to have realized that these were questions that could have been used to interview Pat Nixon in a 1973 issue of Good Housekeeping.Meg writes:
What was sent back to me...left me somewhat speechless. A few “simple questions” (which she could have answered with a sentence or two) were returned to me as a thoughtful, reflective and beautifully curated narrative – a gentle reminder not of how but of why she has become such a globally respected public figure.
I share all this with you as a disclaimer of sorts: had I known Michelle would be so generous in making this a comprehensive interview my questions would have been lengthier, more probing, more engaging. I would have called her and included the banter on these pages – the laughs and sighs and ping-pong of dialogue as I chimed in.
I guess that's what "somewhat speechless" sounds like in Meg's world. There, speechlessness is very wordy; if I didn't know she had other sources of income, I might think she was getting paid by the word.
What a good editor does
Speaking as someone who works in the media business, I can testify that everyone needs an editor, including me.A good editor often makes text much better than it could have otherwise been: Maxwell Perkins was supposedly the real genius behind F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway, and Kafka would have remained an obscure insurance clerk if it weren't for Max Brod.
I am guessing that Meg thought she didn't need an editor (except for spellchecking), and it was a cruel Vogue UK employee who let her have her way.
Someone who cared about Meg wouldn't have let her end her presentation of her email pen pal like this:
To my former First Lady, and now friend, Michelle - thank you.
You can read the full interview here:
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/michelle-obama-duchess-of-sussex-interview-2019
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Uh-huh. "Chimed in = never StFU"
Also, see "marklelies", Meg's Vogue Cover, 15 women... post
Meg has a highly superficial definition of friendship.
And I doubt Michelle calls Meg a friend.
But she was not called. We do not read that a thank you call was made instead of the gushy I would have (flowers and butterflies). I don't think she had a phone number to make a call.
For me, I think one difference between an acquaintance and friend is that I can call a friend. My mother phrased it once as some people you feel you can continue the conversation even though years have passed. Some are still on acquaintance level even when I do have their phone number (I may not feel I have spent enough time with you to let you in closer). And a real, close friend is: can I ask you to pick me up go to the airport at 3 am or do you trust me with your house key?
Sets up the interview as if one to one over lunch (I don't care about your tummy, but it makes me wonder if this was written pre- or post partum), then spoils the image by telling the background of the entire piece - an email (an impersonal, answer the question email).
What was the editor in chief of Vogue thinking??
Hashtag, I'm not a fan.
Who dines under the DIRECTION of a chef, and a forward-thinking one at that?!!
Last time I dined under the direction of a chef, it was my Mom telling me to clean my plate or no dessert (that was the forward-thinking part)
This just illustrates that she stills lives in an instagram world. Thinking that a fine meal can only occur when it is provided by the latest "in" chef, at a restaurant with a waiting list. Look at me everyone!!! Aren't you impressed/jealous????
Plus, Meghan said that MO responses were "returned to me as a thoughtful, reflective and beautifully CURATED narrative" So, so, so pretentious.
She is still under the illusion that she is more famous than the family she married into. Someone needs to clip her wings.
And also, so typical of MM to refer to Michelle Obama as "kind" - twice!!! It's like MM thinks if she talks about how kind everyone is then people will think she is kind too. UGH!
I want my life back. What started out as entertaining royal gossip is now making me angry. I just can't quit this sh*t show!
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/edward-enninful-editors-letter-september-2019-issue
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/meghan-markle-editors-letter-september-2019-issue
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7298003/PIERS-MORGAN-Meghans-shamelessly-hypocritical-Vogue-stunt.html
But an interview by mail, it's weird. On the phone you're at least talking straight to the person, and by mail, how are we supposed to know who responded on these questions, was it Michelle herself.
tes marriage stronger
So it’s not actually inclusive at all, and nor is her message that only women can change the world." Boo-hoo, cry me a river, little white boy, got oppressed by a dumb fashion magazine cover. He clearly uses "inclusivity" as a dig at Meghan, and not in a good way. If he wanted to do it right,he could say why didn't she use women from different professions, or maybe more activists that actresses and models, but yeah, no male on a cover, entire male population is left and oppressed by a feminists.
I'd like to see more actual 'woke' (at least) people, who really believe in feminism and diversity, criticizing Meghan, and not another rightist, we have enough of them deciding our lives in politics, it's enough.
It took Markle seven months to come up with that drivel? Someone at Vogue, or more likely several persons, really let Markle hang herself with her own stupidity and arrogance.
Some feminists, however, believe that they should be allowed a privileged position, which isn't earned by merit or talent, but simply by political correctness. This is the type of feminism that Meghan adheres to, and many of her followers as well.
"There is one caveat for you to remember: this is a magazine. It’s still a business, after all. I share that to manage expectations for you: there will be advertising sections that are requisite for every issue, so while I feel confident that you’ll feel my thumbprint on most pages, please know that there are elements that just come with the territory. The overall sentiment I hope you’ll find, however, will be one of positivity, kindness, humour and inclusivity."
She apologizes for the advertising? The advertising that pays the bills? WTH?
Also, Ed Enninful approved that? Ads pay his salary. If I were a Vogue UK advertiser, I would be making a terse phone call right now.
I mean, Brexit is change. The Chinese Army troops that will be rolling over the Hong Kong protesters any day now are change. The typhoid breaking out on the streets of Los Angeles because there are so many homeless living in encampments is change.
It's more important that you define where you want "change" to take you. And wooly words like "kindness" and "inclusivity" aren't very useful, because they mean different things to different people.
But Meg is not a serious political thinker, and neither is Enninful. They don't have to be, but then maybe they should write about what they know.
As a woman who achieved success in my field on my own merits, I believe that feminism means a qualified woman should be given an equal oportunity to succeed.
I don't believe that unqualified women should be given any advantages only because they are women.
We have a huge problem in Canada right now because of our self proclaimed "feminist' prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
He has been giving advantages to unqualified women at various levels of government in order to prove his "wokeness", and this is leading to a backlash from men.
At the same time, he recently fired a couple of qualified female members of Parliament because they actually tried to take a stand that differed from his.
methinks that the truer statement is that MM herself was surprised to see that there were ads. Probably feeling a touch offended that they made room for something other than "her thumbprint".
And I agree, advertisers should be having a word with Enninful. Especially if sales are subpar.
Anybody else remember reading this?
If paid circulation is audited, she could always just buy a few thousand. No different than buying Instagram bots.
Young men have issues as well with dropping out of school. They should be helped as well.
That's it.
Trudeau is a very unintelligent person. I know people who studied with him at university.
https://twitter.com/M_Mount_Win
Who knows. Sipping fancy coffee, cooking free range fru fru for the hubby, a baby that sleeps all the time.... Curious about one post, the Mount Win got super good news..... Another bubbs?
His "feminist" wife (who hasn't worked for a living for probably ten years), who pretends to be all kumbya, is a social climbing b**ch. She talks in meaningless word salads, just like $mirkle. They share a close friend in Jessica Mulroney.
I suspect that $mirkles was scarfing down a chicken taco as she wrote her email questions to Mrs Obama..
Either that or the editor didn't notice the inconsistency in her fairy tales.
From Wikipedia:
"It was a dark and stormy night" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase[1] considered to represent "the archetypal example of a florid, melodramatic style of fiction writing",[1] also known as purple prose.
To be perfectly honest, I have more respect for streetwalkers. They are at least honest about using their bodies for money.
She can spell 'feminist' and that's as close as Rachel Meghan will ever be to that state.
A truly woke person could have really done a lot of meaningful humanitarian outreach in 8 months. MM sent some emails and chose some really ugly thumbnail shots for a lame cover. That's truly workin' it, girlfriend. You are so important and influential!! If MM weren't around, I doubt the planet would continue to spin on its axis and that would kill everybody and everything.
I can't want to see the Fraudmore spread, hahaha!
I thought maybe she was reminiscing about the good old days with Cory, or maybe she's dined under a lot of chef's while taking direction. With MM, it's just hard to parse it.
I really, really, really hope she gets a come-to-Jesus talking-to at Balmoral, under the direction of a forward-thinking Monarch!
I consider everybody on this site to be a gifted writer. Sure, we have the occasional misspelled word or failed punctuation because of posting on phones or other small devices. However, we are busily going about our daily lives and quickly checking in, writing a quick paragraph, then dashing off. We spend a grand total of maybe five minutes on our reply. She allegedly spent eight freakin' months on this.
Can you imagine the quality of the article if Nutty or Hikari had taken eight months?
I think my issues stem from being exposed to many, many narcissistic people in my life who have sucked up all the oxygen in the room, been praised to the moon and back again all the while I and a few others knew it was just charismatic, narcissistic BS that they were coasting on. I have been screwed over, ghosted and shat upon by many a Meghan-like person in my life. I dislike them for the pain they have caused me. The world seems so unfair to me that the biggest assholes get the most success in our society (I'm looking at you Kardashians). I have been raised to be a good, kind (there's that word again), decent, honest, hard working person, but I live in a world where being a piece of shit is the only way to get ahead or be recognized as (pseudo) valuable. I want to see Meghan fail. I want to see her fall off her sugar pedestal. I need to see that there is a healthy system of checks and balances, of fairness in this world that if you put out evil crap, it will come back to you eventually. And most sad of all, I know that this desire to see her hoisted by her own petard speaks to a flaw in my own character, one that has never healed from the torments of the past.
I didn't realize that those who lean conservative were not entitled to an opinion.
Newsflash: It is this type of thinking that drives more and more people into the conservative camp. They are tired of being told what to think.
Her writing style is so nauseating, pretentious, and millenialish. The continual use of ‘through the lens’ , (same phrase she used when describing her first meeting with the queen and seeing HM as harrys granny), forward thinking, authenticity/authentic (if i hear that term again i may puke) , curated ( another overused pukey word), etc.
Piers Morgan may be a arseclown, but he still has valid points, and I find it hard to believe Michelle Obama would even bother talking to that vapid grifter.
"I would have called her and included the banter on these pages – the laughs and sighs and ping-pong of dialogue as I chimed in. "
So why didn't Smeg call her? "As I chimed in," she thinks she has something relevant to say. This is vomitous. She sure thinks so very highly of herself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/business/gucci-blackface-adidas-apologize.ht
In my opinion, this whole Vogue debacle gives a lot of insight into MM day to day life. Also, I feel like being really snarky, and she has made it so so obvious. Here are a few things I gather from this whole verbal diarrhoea of her's. Ill break it up in points -
1. MM always seems to be thinking of food! There are so many references to eating/food in editorial article/MO interview intro : Eating chicken tacos while supposedly interviewing (which she later herself backtracks on and clarifies that she emailed her, such a lame move IMO). Having tea, specifically mint tea with Edward during their 1st meeting; she mentions this twice. She also compares this editing gig to eating a "beautiful meal" and goes on to describe the thrill of the 1st bite, and foodgasm from the last bite blah bla.. Also the whole "dining under the direction of a forward thinking chef" bit. (What DOES tht even mean??!!) Whats with the food references and analogies ... She seems so obsessed with food. It seems like the last few months all she basically did was eat, and dream about food. OR, she used the leftover / edited out phrases from her cookbook foreward.
3. She acts surprised that the answers were infact deep, insightful, warm and ofcourse KIND (blurghhh!). It comes across as if she shot an arrow in the dark with sending that email, and never really put much thought into sending some meaningful questions to MO's team. Then when she got answers - long insightful ones that actually portrayed MO as a human, a hardworking woman and caring mother; she was left cursing herself. In my head , i picture this - Like "Damn! i wish i had asked her something intelligent. she actually answered. I should totally have called, why did I ever think MO wouldn't talk to me? I could have been so funny! And we would have laughed, and I could have told her about that one time, when I was at Band camp...Should i call her now? Is it too late? Hmm...Michelle's totally my best friend!" This comes across as insecurity, not humility. and also paints the wrong picture that they actually sat down for lunch at a warm cozy place, and laughed their heads off, and shared the struggles of being a woman in this big bad world.
4. " .... dining under the direction of a forward thinking chef." - Firstly what does it even mean? How does this phrase contribute in any way to the narrative?
In my head it goes something like this - MM originally wanted to have lunch with MO, but MO's team shot the idea down and basically said, "no thanks, boss doesn't do interviews. just send us the list of question by end of day and we'l reply within 10-15 working days." Like MM had totally picked the best restaurant in town, booked table, requested the Michelin star chef to make something fit for Michelle Obama to eat, the chef vetoed her menu choice and insisted on curating his own nano-food menu for THE exhalted Ms. O , and after all that MM got stood up! Michelle didnt turn up, MM didnt have her number and was too nervous to ask why lest she get scolded by MO so she took the micro-food tacos home, put on her Tesco flannel PJs, sat on the couch, rested her Mac on her ever burgeoning belly and wrote an email to MO's team while watching a Queer Eye marathon.
5. She seems to have written such a long monologue, it seems like this whole time this gig is her only "voice". As if she never got to speak at all in the past two months and now she can finally FINALLY say something. So she uses all the catchy phrases, buzzwords, tropes she knows. Its like after every thing, all her life experiences, accolades, world-wide fame (infamy) what she truly truly desires, in the very deepest recesses of her heart is to be a BLOGGER!! Not a writer, not a columnist, but a BLOGGER! of the instagram/thought catalog/mindbodygreen kinds.
She wants to be the beacon of light, and she seems to want to pick a fight with anyone and everyone who she perceives to have any sort of power. Unless they are on Instagram, that it. Because the only way , acc to her, that you can be genuine, authentic, kind, generous, inspiring, classy etc is if you appear to be on Insta, if you post Bnw pictures, the only way you can be candid on camera ig you have your back turned to the camera in a picture, if you are a woman of colour, if you talk about fashion being a platform to deliver change etc etc etc.
(Mostly) Every person she has chosen for the issue is outspoken about the cause they promote. "Promote" being the operative word. The relatively unknown women on the list will get lost, forgotten amongst the more glitzy ones.
She could have just as well decided to do a group shot of all the 16 women together, with her somewhere in the picture. A colour shot so their diversity, their individuality, the spark in their eyes could be Obvious and more visible.
She could have also done a behind the scenes shot with the whole editorial team of this issue to go along with her letter. Just being seen with Edward their seems like they have their own secret posse, doesnt make her seem more approachable, down to earth or hands on.
I am worried for my boys, is it okay to teach them to be chivalrous? Maybe it's a southern thing, but I want my boys to have manners, and I do teach them to be gentle with girls. Am I wrong? In the words of Blanche Deveroux "I don't want to be treated as your equal. I want to be treated better than you, much much better!" (Not speaking about workplace)
It's difficult to feel compassion for people who treat others so poorly and seem to excel in life because of it. I don't consider your character flawed. It's natural to desire some form of justice, even if it comes vicariously through a public fall from grace of a charlatan royal. God knows the Narcissist is incapable of the self-reflection and humility required to heal all the carnage they've left in their wake. They'd rather die than acknowledge the hurt they've caused.
Hugs to you, internet friend.
It's pretentious bullshit. The entire thing is pretentious bullshit, narcissistic, trying really hard to come across as intelligent.
I think she is trying to mirror the eloquence of actually eloquent people, but the problem is, she is the person who wrote this, and she is looking into a broken mirror.
I have only read a few sentences of her spew. Is it all this bad?
I'd add: most nouns don't need an adjective. In some cases, yes ("flowery, saccharine, sycophantic dribble of faux fluff stuff ") to make an exaggerated point, or to describe ("The SoHo Duchess"), etc.
Also, no one got my colon joke, and I specifically did that for @Hikari because she had to look up tossed salad (as did I). Sigh. I guess I didn't shine a light on colons everywhere. I thought you'd feel my thumbprint.
His Royal Dumbness... sorry
Does anyone know the word for simultaneously rolling one's eyes, shaking the head and face palming whilst laughing, followed by a heavy dose of second hand embarrassment?
Because that's where I am right now....
I'm a writer, I'm no King or Rowling, but I'm better than MM. She's .... she's just an awful, awful writer.
Markus Anderson, $mirkle's pimp, is friends (possibly romantic) with Edward Enninful.
Imagine if they all took the energy involved with creating all these hook ups and used the energy for the greater good and not for self aggrandizement.
What do $mirkle and Marcus Anderson have on Edward Enninful?
All roads lead back to Soho House.
She is so unbearably pretentious, hence the referrals to 'fine food, chefs & dining' because as you know, she is above us peasants, who are still wiping up our plate of baked beans with white bread
She is so insufferable and i wouldn't want to be in her head for half a nano second otherwise i would have to self medicate, which is probably what Prince Harry is doing, just to cope with her
* inserts eyeroll
*For your information MM an English person sits down to a pot of tea
*I see she is using the English spelling....it's seems that is the only English thing she has ever grasped
However, that requires my subjects to actually trust me enough to 'friend' me. Twice I did make friends, (one who eventually became one of the loves of my life) - but not every time. To assume that because someone was kind enough to give me their time makes them my 'friend' is ridiculous.
Also, she had an opportunity to ask Michelle Obama anything and decided on such pedestrian questions! A fourth grader could have come up with those!
Gloves are coming off all over the place.
And Meghan? if you are one of the participants in the ping-pong of dialogue, you don't chime in. You are already one half of the conversation. You chime in if you are on the sidelines.
Yeah, she definitely writes at a fairly immature level. Verbose, pretentious word salads.
SERIOUSLY????
@ Louise, as I'm ping-ponging (sorry!) back and forth between Harry being equally culpable or merely a dim blundering male held securely in the fangs of a female spider, those webs trailing back to Soho House are troubling.
I was thinking about the PH interviews Dame Goodall and what was printed. They may have had a conversation. Parts of it may have been even printed. However words can be printed which were never spoken. She did have quite a control over the project and I could see her possible adding somethings to make it sexier, more in line with other pieces. I can't possible know for certain but I would not state it could never happen (as I have seen it done elsewhere and once in print, you are stuck).
I noticed the nice swipe at DOC and the number of their kids (talk is there could be another). But if they really, really are that concerned about world population numbers ... they maybe should not have any kids to help lessen them and burden.
Haz must really be dim if he was conned by this woman for more than the length of one date. He had to have sobered up sometime. And is the rest of his family so insecure about their education that they are going to swallow wholesale Smeghan's PR that she is an articulate, accomplished *intellectual* woman with dual degrees from a top university?
I don't know about you all but I'd sure like to get a gander at her Northwestern transcripts. Perhaps the tale that she matriculated there or ever graduated is a snow job just like the rest of her PR.
I think the board of directors at Vogue/Conde Nast might move swifter to remove EE from his post as head of this travesty than the royal family has done to deal with the problem on their hands
Your pen is very very mighty,it moves better than a Salamanca broadsword.
BRAVO..x
I’m completely there with you,a close relative of mine has classic NPD so much so
I’m sure I can smell them out!
I’m also lucky to have friendships with scholars who deal with these kind of disorders all
the time.
My heart goes out to you as these people,just leave carnage and devastation in the wake
Ergo MM they have no morale compass and just use abuse and discard at will so I understand your
disdain for MM who shows all the signs that we can see,I guess that’s why we feel so much anger
Towards her as we see the Machiavellian disingenuous person she really is and are quite hopeless
to do anything about it except discuss.I don’t see that as a flaw in your character I see it as empathy
and a hopelessness to help others in her agenda.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7301321/Prince-Harry-interviewed-Dr-Jane-Goodall-Meghans-edition-British-Vogue.html
This has pretty much dissipated any lingering sympathy I have had towards Harry.
I was fortunate enough to hear her speak twice at a small venue in San Francisco many years ago, and then again when she gave the sermon at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco for one celebration of the Feast of St. Francis. I have a picture of her greeting my beloved first dog, Mischief (long since gone to the happy hunting grounds).
Dame Goodall is an astonishing woman and has accomplished so much good in her life. That she is playing the marketing game with these two is deeply upsetting to me.
She had the control after whatever he had down on paper and handed over to her.
Could she, would she change it? so it fit better with the other pieces into a more unified political frame?
Even integrity has a price.
It's always somebody else's fault, and she is the poor victim.
Telling people not to take photos at Wimbledon.. a rogue security guard.
Telling people at Windsor not to ask her dog's name... not her. No siree, it's never her.
Quick search for timeline results in this:
November 8, 2016 statement by Harry whining about abuse and harassment of Smeg, although no one at the time would know they were in a relationship.
November 21 2016 Antigua, Prime Minister Gaston Browne teases Harry, “I believe we are expecting a new princess soon. I want know that you are very welcome to come on your honeymoon here … there will be nowhere in the world as special to spend your honeymoon
November 23, 2016 domain name registered.
Nov. 27, 2016: Following reports that Prince William was unhappy with Harry’s decision to go public with his relationship
Fishy.
I did my time as a dirt covered welder which not only kept me in 116 lbs. of toned perfection, it allowed me to save enough money to put myself through a Blue Ribbon culinary school in Paris and medical school. Most of the guys I worked with were nice, adopted brother types. When there are three women in a workforce of 3000, IF two of us got to work together it was girl-time. As a white woman there were two times that a man of colour was used to intimidate me. Once was a time when a co-worker and I were sent to a back building ( just the two of us) for the day to build a project that they usually used an overhead crane to maneuver but we didn’t have access to one out back. He later told me that out boss had been sent out with me with the order to “make her quit”. He admitted that I nearly killed him that day as we made 2x the number of items as they usually did. Another was a time(s) where we all washed up after the day and for lunch. Several days in a row I was privileged to see another POC standing beside the building relieving himself. I think I was supposed to shriek and run but I said “oh, I had heard that black men were hung like a horse. I see I was misinformed.” It never happened again.
My point is, I consider myself a feminist and yes, by all means, raise chivalrous young men. I never have figured out what I want to be when I grow up so have been lucky enough to spend many years on college campuses on both sides of the podium. Would you believe that some of them are actually having to offer etiquette classes?
MM Anon
MM ANON, … delusional acceptance of a VB co-edit.… “I’m worried about spiralling “… “ she needs help grandma”… not very straight’ that jacket … but, there’s no more rope left. … “good morning LG, we need to talk “… the hidden pre-nup.… “Down and out in Scotland and L.A. “. “Don’t argue darling , just shoot the messenger “ … Very interesting intelligence’ thank you M.
Thank you😁❤️❤️❤️❤️
By the way the writing of the commentators on this post is second to none. We are talking original cattiness at it's best. Sometimes I have to read them twice. I want to copy them in my every day parlance. Yup reading this blog in between my briefs and memos is sooooo much fun I cant tell you. And then I compare it against laineys self serving flowery dribble about coincidence or conspiracy non?
MM go make up with pops right now. You are desperate for survival now. At least lainey loves her mom and talks about her all the time.
Have a great day nutty flavour posters!!!! :)))))
Meghan has written some of his speeches; it seems likely that she may have also provided some of his quotes.
Did he actually repeat what she had written so it could be argued that "he said it"? Hard to know.
He's not a bright fellow, so I doubt he's been studying intersectional politics on his own.
But Piers Morgan already has plenty of outlets for his opinion. I doubt he needs to use a pseudonym on Twitter to speak out.
I feel the same way when people suggest I'm secretly this or that commenter on Lipstick Alley. Uh, no, I have a blog. I don't need to play hide-and-seek on yours.
@Veena Priceless :)
Quite obvs, Merriam-Webster needs to update their defintion:
Definition of secret
1a : kept from knowledge or view : hidden
b : marked by the habit of discretion : closemouthed
c : working with hidden aims or methods : undercover a secret agent
d : not acknowledged : unavowed a secret bride
e : conducted in secret a secret trial
We don't hear or see anything about them being walked. Or the baby in a stroller even when her mother was around.
You are correct. I've been an editor and not only do I suck at proofreading my copy, but hate it too. When I didn't have anyone to edit or proofread for me, I'd read the article out loud. Saved my ass several times. As far as Meg's punc., she probably disagrees with the Style Manual Vogue uses.
George Carlin would get a lot of mileage from this mess of a Megs Malaprop, too. I sure miss Carlin.
It would be a real article if Nutty or Hikari wrote it. Even if both had to be stuck proofreading it themselves.