
Leave Kate alone.
Duchess Kate is pregnant with her second child. Yes, I know the whole world knows this.
What the whole world doesn’t know is that apparently (according to some people) she shouldn’t be.
Yesterday, well-known feminist commentator Germaine Greer slammed Kate for carrying baby number two.
Her exact words to Newsweek were, “[Kate] is vomiting her guts up and shouldn’t have been made to go through all this again so soon. It’s not so much that she has to be a womb, but she has to be a mother. I would hope after this one she says, ‘That’s it. No more’.” She also added that Kate is "too thin", blaming the Duchess' high-profile role for her weight loss.
That made me angry enough, but Germaine didn't stop at that...
“Kate is a great deal more intelligent than the rest of the royals. [She has a] bastard of a job. She has been put in charge of William. She cannot do or say anything spontaneous. She has learned what she has to do and say and how to do and say it in the approved way. Spontaneity will get her in trouble."
Okay, that's enough. Seriously, that is enough.
Kate is intelligent. And Kate is a little on the thin side. Other than that, back off, Greer.
Firstly, Kate is not just a royal womb. Yes, I'm sure she experienced pressure to fall pregnant. But guess what? So has every single married woman in the world. From the minute you say "I do", you're on baby watch. From the minute you give birth to baby number one, you're on second baby watch. And God forbid you don't have a boy AND girl. Because, you guessed it, you go back onto baby watch until you pop out child of the other gender. And you'll probably stay there until menopause.