Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't believe a lot of the more salacious rumors, but I am intrigued that so many commenters find it absolutely impossible that William and Kate would be anything less than almost perfect. When did princes become the paradigm of virtue, or princess become immune to things like eating disorders? Princes are stereotypically rogues because they can get away with whatever they want. Yes because it's England they have to pretend to be perfect but a ton of men pretend to be perfect while having affairs and even illegitimate children. A ton of people are crappy spouses and lots of people have eating disorders. They have to pretend like they aren't regular people, but they are. And commenters are acting like speculating that the royals have done regular-people things is some kind of massive toxicity.
This is all straw man argumentation. I and others have been accused of “princess worship” despite being an actual Republican as it is used in the sane world- I am deeply anti-monarchist. Anti-titles on all levels but especially for any deference to that in the US. The issue is that the salacious theories (DV, illegitimate babies) were presented as fact repeatedly with no basis, while the medical crisis plus stupid-bad photoshop opinion was treated as hopelessly naive. It’s a bad faith argument you got up there, but feel free to hug it tight.
The stuff on this page of the thread about hyperemesis in pregnancy reminds me of reading about that in Atul Gawande’s first book. He made clear how much HG wrecked one of his patients, but I never thought of how serious that could be over multiple pregnancies.