Nàng Công tước xứ Sussex, Meghan, Lên Tiếng Về Việc Quấy Rối Trực Tuyến ‘Điên Rồ’
Sự chú ý của công chúng thường khiến hoàng tử Harry và vợ ông, Meghan, phải chịu đựng những ý kiến mạnh mẽ. Và Meghan, nàng Công tước xứ Sussex, đã phản kháng trực tiếp vào ngày thứ Sáu, chỉ trích một văn hóa quấy rối trên mạng xã hội.
“Chúng ta đã quên đi lòng nhân đạo của chúng ta, và điều đó phải được thay đổi,” cô nói trong một buổi thảo luận chính tại hội nghị South by Southwest ở Austin, Texas, tập trung vào sự đại diện của phụ nữ trong giải trí và truyền thông.
Meghan và Harry đã lên tiếng lo ngại về cách mà sự chú ý tiêu cực từ truyền thông đã ảnh hưởng đến họ, cả khi họ còn là thành viên hoạt động của hoàng gia Anh và sau khi họ rời bỏ nhiệm vụ hoàng gia vào năm 2020 và chuyển đến Hoa Kỳ.
Meghan nói vào ngày thứ Sáu rằng cô đã phải chịu một lượng lớn lời lẽ lạm dụng trực tuyến khi cô đang mang bầu với hai đứa con, Archie và Lilibet, và trong những tháng sau khi họ ra đời.
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Nguồn: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/us/meghan-markle-sxsw-online-bullying.html
The glare of public attention has often left Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, on the receiving end of strong opinions. And Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, pushed back at that directly on Friday, criticizing a culture of bullying on social media.
“We have forgotten about our humanity, and that has got to change,” she said, while appearing on a keynote panel at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, focusing on the representation of women in entertainment and the media.
Meghan and Harry have voiced repeated concerns about how negative media attention has affected them, both while they were active members of Britain’s royal family and since they stepped back from royal duties in 2020 and moved to the United States.
Meghan said on Friday that she had received the bulk of online abuse while she was pregnant with her children, Archie and Lilibet, and in the months after their births.
“I keep my distance from it right now just for my own well-being,” Meghan said of the negative comments directed at her online, some of which she described as “hateful.”
“It’s not catty,” she said in the keynote session, which also included Brooke Shields, Katie Couric and the sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen. “It’s cruel.”
In a 2022 Netflix documentary, in which the couple talked in detail about their split from Britain’s royal family, Meghan said that she had struggled with mental health issues and experienced suicidal thoughts, in part because of the harsh media attention.
On Friday, she said that a cultural change was needed in social media habits. Online platforms, she said, incentivized people to “churn out very, very inciting comments and conspiracy theories that can have a tremendously negative effect on someone’s mental health.”
Meghan and Harry have also expressed concerns about their physical safety, notably after their car was pursued by photographers while in New York last May.
And the couple have tangled with British tabloids in court. Last month, a London court awarded Harry damages from The Mirror Group of newspapers after a judge found the group guilty of “widespread and habitual” hacking of his cellphone.
Nor are they the only members of Britain’s royal family to draw intense media and online attention.
Speculation over the family’s well-being has been particularly strong this year, as King Charles III, Harry’s father, revealed in February that he had received a cancer diagnosis, around the same time that Catherine, Princess of Wales, underwent abdominal surgery. Catherine, the wife of Prince William, Harry’s elder brother, has also been the subject of online rumors during her time away from the public eye.
For her part, Meghan said at SXSW that she was especially disturbed by “how much of the hate is women completely spewing that to other women.
“If you’re reading something terrible — terrible — about a woman, why are you sharing it with your friends?” she posited. “Why are you choosing to put that out in the world?”
