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Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Kate Middleton: Shamed For Getting Pregnant Again! (Seriously, People Are Insane!)
Proving yet again that women cannot win, and that people on the Internet are out-of-their-mind bonkers, Kate Middleton is being mom-shamed.
Yes, trolls are dragging her over her latest pregnancy.
Leave it to social media morons to turn some special, non-controversial news that we frankly could all use right now into “get on the pill.”
A 35-year-old woman is trying to raise children and live her best life, while really not doing anything objectionable. Yet she gets this.
Kensington Palace announced that Kate Middleton is pregnant with her third child, who will join George, 4, and Charlotte, 2, on Monday.
Very sweet, without a doubt. Unless you’re on Twitter, where people tell her to “get on the pill you slag” or liken her to a “conveyor belt.”
Seriously, those were actual comments.
Don’t ask us why a woman having a third biological child in her 30s is somehow newsworthy at all, let alone in a negative way, but …
Basically, what you have here is Kate Middleton being shamed for … having sex with her husband? We really don’t see the point here.
The idea that the Duke of Cambridge’s genitals “junk” is often up in there shouldn’t come as a surprise, nor offend anyone, in our opinion.
Isn’t it a woman’s business and hers alone – whether she’s married or not (which Kate is, it’s worth repeating) how many kids she wants?
We’re not judging them either, but Kailyn Lowry has three kids out of wedlock, and Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have 19. Nineteen!
Kate truly cannot win no matter what here.
Imagine if the Duchess of Cambridge were, say, to end this pregnancy. Or not have children at all! She would be filleted online as selfish.
She would be heartless. Immoral. Worse.
Just wait until she starts to show, or in Kate’s case, barely show. Middleton has also been shamed for her body, and will likely be again.
Like a royal Sarah Stage, she will be “too skinny” to be in her third trimester. In the interim, she’s being “dramatic” about morning sickness.
Never mind that Kate’s morning sickness isn’t like most people’s; Middleton suffers from Hyperemesis Gravidarum, a severe form of it.
She’s been hospitalized as a result, which was actually the event that prompted the palace to announce her first pregnancy in late 2012.
Perhaps the only positive spin we can put on this is that Kate seems fairly adept at blocking out the noise and living life on her terms.
Being criticized and scrutinized for whatever you do is, sadly, par for the course in her life, and honestly, she’s been through a lot worse.
Not only will detractors belittle her life choices, they’ll attempt to scandalize and sexualize her when she’s simply going about her life.
The Kate Middleton topless photo scandal, for example, involved her intimate moments broadcast online for all to see, against her will.
It’s no way to live. Just because she’s a celebrity doesn’t mean that the rules of basic human decency don’t apply to how you treat her.
This week, she and William won a judgment in that case, which they took to court out on principle, despite not needing to collect damages.
A little pregnancy hating/jealousy/people trying way too hard to be snarky and funny pales in comparison to telephoto lens stalking.
Silver lining?
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Dean Unglert: SHADED by Rachel Lindsay Over Bachelor in Paradise Breakup!
Dean Unglert went from everyone’s blue eyed dream to making a lot of people upset on Bachelor in Paradise. Why? Well … love triangle shenanigans, basically.
Those shenanigans came to an end on Monday night’s episode with a breakup that didn’t really make anybody happy.
Among the people who responded were Rachel Lindsay, Dean’s own ex, who tweeted some serious shade in his direction.
Remember when Dean Unglert said that he made an ass of himself in Paradise?
Well … he’s as good as his word.
Until this week’s episode, Dean had been juggling both Danielle Lombard and Kristina Schulman
And yeah, we get it — Bachelor in Paradise is all about figuring out who, if anyone, is right for you.
Dating the first person you see might not be the best plan.
There’s also an argument to be made that people aren’t necessarily well-suited for monogamy, but we’ll get to that in a moment.
Because, though Kristina came across as sympathetic and she and Dean seemed to have a real connection (while Dean also hooked up with Danielle and Danielle didn’t restrict herself exclusively to Dean, either), Dean ended up choosing Danielle.
A lot of fans were crushed.
Some of them were rooting for Dean and Kristina.
A lot of them were rooting for Kristina to find happiness.
Others were just rooting for Dean to stay the endearing, precious boy they’d seen on The Bachelorette.
So there was a lot of disappointment. All around.
As we mentioned, Rachel Lindsay — who competed alongside Kristina Schulman for Nick Viall’s hand on The Bachelor before becoming the Bachelorette and finding love … or whatever … with Bryan Abasolo, threw some shade at Dean over the whole affair.
She tweeted this:
“Never settle @kristinaschulma ….love you girl.”
She followed that up with a kissing emoji.
You may notice that she doesn’t mention Dean by name.
But her “never settle” message is a reminder that they now have two exes in common, and a diss against Dean.
Rachel is implying that Dean isn’t worthy of Kristina, and that Kristina — like Rachel — could do better.
Maybe so.
It may have also occurred to you that Rachel Lindsay has a whole lot of nerve tweeting anything at anybody about breaking up with the wrong person.
She’s kind of an expert on the subject, but that’s not the same as being an authority on which breakups are smart or not.
Sorry if we’re not going to take romantic advice from the woman who chose a guy who says whatever she wants to hear and left Peter Kraus a sobbing mess.
For his part, Dean Unglert posted this to Instagram:
His heartbreaking caption?
“You were out of my league.”
A friend of mine DMed this post to me as soon as she saw it to make sure that I had seen it, because there are a lot of feels to be had.
Honestly, we think that Kristina and Dean just got swept up in it all.
Dean, in particular, was basically on the rebound after making it almost to the very end of The Bachelorette.
Like, Rachel Lindsay met his dad. He wasn’t just on for a few episodes to get his name out there.
As we mentioned, monogamy isn’t right for everyone.
For some people, it’s the only way for them to have a relationship.
For others, it’s unnatural and monogamy culture — and especially the idea that there’s exactly one person out there who’s right for you — is horrifying.
There are a lot of successful polyamorous relationships, and with social acceptance, that is growing.
We’d love to see a Bachelor series with an emphasis on polyamory, but we’re sure that it will take years before enough viewers are open-minded enough to tune in.
On such a show, maybe this love triangle wouldn’t have been so devastating. Maybe it would have just been, you know, a normal triad.
If that would work for all three of them, anyway.
Not everybody’s cut out to be polyamorous.
We think that, within the Bachelor Nation, Dean can get past this.
Dean is, after all, a young guy who’s openly admitted that he has more maturing to do.
And that was before he went on Bachelor in Paradise.
Dean is not going to be the next Bachelor, but we’d love to see him on the next season of Bachelor in Paradise.
And maybe, in a couple of years, after he’s had his “redemption arc” on camera, he could make an amazing — and still quite young — leading man.
And, for what it’s worth, we wish Kristina Schulman the best.
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