I will NOT be scolded into feeling bad about my curiosity over a public figure’s months-long, clumsily covered up disappearance from public. Monarchy apologists trying to shame us all for taking an interest in Kate’s mysterious absence can fuck off!🤗 slate.com/human-intere... - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

mjsdc.bsky.social • 340 days ago

I will NOT be scolded into feeling bad about my curiosity over a public figure’s months-long, clumsily covered up disappearance from public. Monarchy apologists trying to shame us all for taking an interest in Kate’s mysterious absence can fuck off!🤗 https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/03/kate-middleton-news-cancer-video-prince-william.html

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espadrine.bsky.social•339 days ago

I have the reverse take. Their privacy ought to be preserved, AND the monarchy ought to be abolished.

netknave.bsky.social•339 days ago

The Royal family exists for one reason: to distract the plebs

Shitty economy? Royal wedding

Shitty government? Royal drama

New Shitty government? Royal stamp of legitimacy

How dare you complain subject? Are they not magnificent for your sins? Are you not proud or something?

rigor-motorist.bsky.social•339 days ago

It's like they put so much effort into making us care about the foreign monarchy, especially given our own national history with monarchs, and then when we do show interest for once they tell us not to!

rabsinthe.scot•339 days ago

Monarchists are some of the most pathetic arselickers on the planet. Their servility is fucking unbounded.

noisyninja.bsky.social•339 days ago

I honestly don't understand what was mysterious...they announced she went in for an abdominal surgery. No matter what the op was, she was in recovery, making pr appearances unlikely. They communicated that at the outset.

sistermagpie.bsky.social•339 days ago

I didn't follow it closely, but iirc the mystery started was when they published a picture her husband just took that was obv an edited picture taken months earlier, then had "Kate" take the blame for it? So it seemed like they were lying.
Because they were lying.

hairydogproductions.com•339 days ago

It was a woman trying to retain a bit of privacy while having surgery.

Thinking it’d be over by end of March, & indicating that, should have been all that was required.

Then, to find there’s also cancer to deal with, & we’re not even at the end of March.

No one has rights to peoples privacy.

eyeharthomonyms.bsky.social•339 days ago

No one asked for a diagnosis. Just a quick proof of life. She could have released the same video just saying "hi all. Thanks for the concern, but I'm fine and expect to return on whatever date" and everyone would have shrugged and returned to some other drama.

thiccofferman.bsky.social•339 days ago

They brought it all on themselves.

dailysnailies.bsky.social•339 days ago

I don't approve of any monarchy but I also think the way that people just generally feel entitled to celebrities and public figures as objects of entertainment isn't healthy. I don't care whether anyone feels guilty about it but I do think it's worth unpacking.

cborshuk.bsky.social•339 days ago

I remember Hilary Mantels piece; she described Kate as a mannequin whose job is to breed and be admired for her clothing choices

rexs1gma.bsky.social•339 days ago

“Have some humanity!”

Them first.

zendarva.bsky.social•339 days ago

Well, the royals have already lost one princess to news harassment.

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elizabethh.bsky.social•339 days ago

You're certainly entitled to your opinion. Just as I am entitled to unfollow people you post such entitled man-boy conceit. The hypocrisy of your last sentence... 🙄

zendarva.bsky.social•339 days ago

Agreed, I think they're secretly hoping for a second Diana.

tjdungeons.bsky.social•339 days ago

Lol

mxfee.bsky.social•339 days ago

Make sure you send some of that self-indulgent scorn over to the Royals and their PR team whose continued mismanagement of the situation is the reason people got so nosy in the first place 😊

elizabethh.bsky.social•339 days ago

Explain how respecting a woman's request for privacy while recuperating from major surgery in which it was discovered she had cancer is self indulgent scorn.

lcarrico.bsky.social•339 days ago

Agreed. The monarchy brought this speculation upon itself. Had it been open about her illness, it could help others. Plus, there are so many reasons for her to run from that suffocating lifestyle.

zendarva.bsky.social•339 days ago

Curiosity? Sure.

But, haven't we harassed enough princesses into brick walls at 100 miles an hour not to risk it again?

I'm sure Diana would love reading all the coverage.

petohtalrayn.bsky.social•339 days ago

*column at 65mph

Bit of a stretch.
Getting nosey when
"Where is this public figure who has not been seen when every other member of her family was present?"
is answered with a crayon drawing of her as ✌️proof✌️ she's fine is a FAR cry from
"Dozens stalking her everywhere she goes day or night."

zendarva.bsky.social•339 days ago

And I see you don't know about the cemo parking lot pictures.

mary-huntimer.bsky.social•339 days ago

It makes their PR team look even worse for blaming Kate for a poor photoshop job.

thealice.bsky.social•339 days ago

A "the duchess is very sick and receiving treatment... prayers, difficult time" etc etc press release is the easiest goddamned thing in the world to write. It's mins boggling they're complaining about not having just done that right off

blat.at•339 days ago

The reason they waited until now was because it was the last day of term at their kids’ school and they didn’t want their kids to find out either from other kids or from a press release. They wanted to be able to tell them at the start of the holidays. Remember their kids didn’t choose to be royals.

chadradish.bsky.social•339 days ago

Oh waah, won't someone think of the poor little immensely wealthy and powerful children who were divinely anointed before birth by God to rule over lesser peoples beneath them!?

dougmccrae.bsky.social•339 days ago

As soon as they made that public announcement, William and Catherine’s three children would find out. But, given that King Charles, the children’s grandfather, was recently diagnosed with cancer, W and C probably wanted to delay telling the kids their mum was sick too.

tavernwench.bsky.social•339 days ago

Right?? And now we are to be shamed by the likes of Katty Kay? I mean, just admit the Royals suck at PR. They could have been garnering sympathy this entire time.

blake.bsky.social•339 days ago

The issue for me is that in far too many cases “curiosity” was a major understatement. That being said, I never scolded anyone. Just shook my head in silence. 😉

scottdagostino.ca•339 days ago

Is Kate entitled to her privacy? Of course!
Should the palace staff have issued *anything* other than a short “she is convalescing” statement? Absolutely not. That they tried and blamed its failure on *her* is the scandal here.

bjkeefe.bsky.social•339 days ago

I wouldn't scold you, and I agree with your take on this particular item, but I have to say, I remain mystified why anyone, esp those outside the UK, are at all interested in the British royals.

Only way I can explain it to myself: it's like a popular reality tv show that becomes a common interest.

margotsibley25.bsky.social•339 days ago

Well I do. The Family serves an important function for the people of England. England is Royalty and Parliament. The two r inseparable. Catherine is a lovely representative. And I wish her well

halfcockedlaw.bsky.social•339 days ago

The country's sperm donors must be respected.

doctecazoid.bsky.social•339 days ago

Thanks for proclaiming yet another unnecessary hot take on social media, in lieu of maybe doing something constructive with your time.

pnwmelissa.bsky.social•339 days ago

Oh shut up Tom.

doctecazoid.bsky.social•339 days ago

I'll see myself out.

pnwmelissa.bsky.social•339 days ago

🫡

doctecazoid.bsky.social•339 days ago

I'm off to the WPKN Music Mash!

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pnwmelissa.bsky.social•339 days ago

Sounds cool. Good luck on the crate digging!

halfcockedlaw.bsky.social•339 days ago

Was this intentionally ironic?

doctecazoid.bsky.social•339 days ago

It was intentionally unintentionally ironic.

homelessrobot.bsky.social•339 days ago

I wasn't making fun of cancer I was making fun of the royal family's terrible pr and their response to a normal question and thier horrifying history.

redscarepodcast.bsky.social•339 days ago

And I’m not making fun of the cancer because I hope it survives

katz.theracket.news•339 days ago

What about those of us who never cared either way who will be our champion

averysafecat.bsky.social•339 days ago

*standing up, creaking, putting out cigarette* … alright.

mcdaragh.bsky.social•339 days ago

The monarchists are the very reason there's an expectation of her in this regard.

walkingtaako.bsky.social•339 days ago

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suzi00.bsky.social•339 days ago

An anachronistic position not handled well at all.

crimfresh.bsky.social•339 days ago

Calling her Kate like you're on a first name basis. Celebrity worship will never not be weird.

halfcockedlaw.bsky.social•339 days ago

That's literally how the royalty use their names.

crimfresh.bsky.social•339 days ago

It's literally not. No official release treats their names that casually. They ALWAYS use the honorific. Royalty is a dumb concept to begin with but you're wrong with that attempted correction.

robpollard45.bsky.social•339 days ago

I think all the “curious” (what an understatement) and the way over-entitled, over-compensated royals look pretty bad, to be honest.

A classic pox on both houses situation.

jimbosaur.bsky.social•339 days ago

"Our extremely over-compensated PR team bungled the response to curiosity over her absence in the most catastrophically inept way imaginable, and don't you feel TERRIBLE for making your little jokes about that?"

redscarepodcast.bsky.social•339 days ago

Honestly this news makes all the jokes and intrigue funnier

egosumcassandra.bsky.social•339 days ago

This utter failure to understand public perception is yet another sign that the monarchy is out of touch and a waste of everyone's time and money. End it! Weaponizing our empathy against us proves the point: if they'd been honest everyone would've rallied. THEY made the problem.

sadewi.bsky.social•339 days ago

Hear hear. Doesn’t mean the actual situation isn’t sad. But their press officers/team made it worse, and it is logic that questions are asked if you are more out and about as a public figure with a key role in UK society. But damn, I would have approached things differently if I were on #teamkate

jaze.bsky.social•339 days ago

Why do you care, its not like she cares about you..

torrleonard.bsky.social•339 days ago

You should feel bad about…

caring about the monarchy at all.

bleuchat.bsky.social•339 days ago

Exactly. The monarchy profits off their control of the public’s interest in their private lives & exploits this shamelessly—-they court it. Published photoshopped lie photo of Kate’s fake robust health & happy family, then made her take the fall. They can fruckoff. Harry&Mags had it right…

candyworks.bsky.social•339 days ago

I haven’t read the article yet, but I just want to say, I believe the royals are actually funded with taxpayers’ money, aren’t they? So what they usually do is kind of like performance art. Which is prob awful for them, & also, obligates them to reasonable transparency IMO. I do feel bad for K, obvi

yohannanx.bsky.social•339 days ago

Kinda? They receive a payment from the government, but it’s percentage of the annual income generated by certain properties operated by the government that have a weird ownership structure.

rabsinthe.scot•339 days ago

They get a £86m/year lump sum from the public purse. Parasites. Also, they don’t generate any tourism money, the palaces would receive visitors whether that lot lived in them or not. The whole tourism thing is some bullshit cooked up by worthless sycophants.

brainbomb.bsky.social•339 days ago

It is, but really that's a bit of deceit because the percentage is raised if major works are required but can never fall in monetary terms if profits fall. If that happens then the government is required to top it up.

yohannanx.bsky.social•339 days ago

The amount of the payment can’t fall, but the upside is also capped. It’s effectively an annuity.

brainbomb.bsky.social•339 days ago

Except that the prince became a billionaire automatically when Charles became King because the prince automatically gets the Duchy of Cornwall, the profits from which are not subject to normal taxation for a business.

yohannanx.bsky.social•339 days ago

Not sure why this post begins with “except” because you’re now talking about a different issue. For what it’s worth, the duchy should be taxed like any other corporation.

kipwilliams.bsky.social•339 days ago

It's almost as if the law protects them but does not bind them.

zendarva.bsky.social•339 days ago

Pretty sure the royals own all the money in britain technically, don't they?

It's like asking about who issues the Kings drivers license, or who approves the presidents security clearance.

The question just doesn't work.

rabsinthe.scot•339 days ago

No, they fucking don’t. Don’t be ridiculous.

zendarva.bsky.social•339 days ago

Who owns the Royal Mint?

I could be wrong I guess, but one assumes, the Royals.

rabsinthe.scot•339 days ago

The Royal Mint is fucking irrelevant. It makes commemorative coins, not actual currency that people use.

Go and learn about fractional reserve banking and stop making a fool of yourself on the internet.

zendarva.bsky.social•339 days ago

Like you are?

https://www.royal.uk/coinage-and-bank-notes

Moron.

protik.bsky.social•339 days ago

Idk, hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of people all over the world are paid by taxpayers. I know I am, and I'm certainly not doing any sort of performance art for the public's enjoyment.

candyworks.bsky.social•339 days ago

Right, but are you a public figure though? Because what I meant is that this justifies a reasonable expectation for a minimum of transparency, and that wasn’t met.

protik.bsky.social•339 days ago

That's my point—being paid from public finances doesn't mean one's personal life belongs to the public. It could be argued that public figures have a more limited right to privacy—no matter who pays them—but I generally feel like ppl should stop being weird abt celebs.

candyworks.bsky.social•339 days ago

I think we basically agree, you’re thinking mainly about public finances, while I speak of *public appearances*. Their duties are largely performative. (Can’t believe I’m wasting time on this, I’m not even a Royal watcher lol) And what is abt?

protik.bsky.social•339 days ago

I was just responding to your remark about being paid by taxpayers; I don't think their funding or purported obligations have any bearing at all on how others should relate to them wrt medical issues. Ppl are just trying to rationalize a particular flavor of weirdo parasocial behavior.

chadradish.bsky.social•339 days ago

Choosing to have a career as an IRS investigator or something and receiving federal funding for work is a hell of a lot different than being divinely anointed by God before you were born to rule over inferior peasants beneath you and receiving their money for no reason beyond bloodline.

protik.bsky.social•339 days ago

Perhaps you should read the exchange you've decided to insert yourself into before posting mate

lazylazyjane.bsky.social•339 days ago

the tut-tutting of people having a little fun at the "expense" of an uber-wealthy princess who was being photoshopped into photos and potentially having a body double and who will get the best care ever available to anyone is almost as funny as the entire fiasco itself

yohannanx.bsky.social•339 days ago

I think part of the issue that a lot of people immediately transitioned from poking fun to being absolutely gleeful about her diagnosis.

lazylazyjane.bsky.social•339 days ago

ohhh i definitely didn't see the cancer glee and i'd very much agree that that is gross. i've seen so many takes on all this it's already so tiring 🤪

chadradish.bsky.social•339 days ago

Good, fuck monarchs

chuckgoat.bsky.social•339 days ago

Kate: "I'm gonna make a video announcing I got cancer, wanna be by my side?"
William: "Can't, I'm busy."
Kate: "Even Elliot Spitzer's wife stood by her side when he cheated on her with prostitutes younger than his daughter. What are you so busy with?"
William:

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rachacha.bsky.social•339 days ago

Fair enough Mark but you should still feel bad about all the other things tho.

annwilliams.bsky.social•339 days ago

Monarchy apologists should worry over indifference, not curiosity.

It's very possible she had the boomerang of the possible hormones (the pill) she was no doubt forced to take all those dating years

reftpt93.bsky.social•339 days ago

Appreciate this take.