Reply #190: very reasoned post explaining your feelings about her

[CitizenLeft]

Definitely not going to flame you.

What I don't understand is the really tasteless vitriol on this thread. She was a young women who suddenly captured the limelight - harsh and merciless - at 19 years old and never got out of it. I guess once she realized there was no escaping it, she tried to manipulate it to her own uses. Didn't work. Never works. Because she was the most famous woman in the world, many people on every continent felt they "knew" her - we saw her go from a painfully shy girl to a bride, princess, mother, unhappy wife, divorcee, all without a single lapse in publicity. It's not so hard to believe that people identified with her, she was photographed and filmed everywhere she went. And her personal magnetism, whether you liked her or not, doesn't seem debatable. How any of us would handle that public intensity I don't know, but the hatred of her on this thread is kind of shocking for someone who only wanted to take that celebrity she hated, turn it around, and help other people - and yes, herself. I thought we as liberals were better than that.