@dprtorao Maybe we can talk about ‘free will’ in commercial surrogacy when celebrities start becoming surrogates for other celebrities purely out of friendship. 😮💨
@foxblog3 No. She never described any characteristics of the person, and the earl himself never identified who it was. Have you actually read the reporting on the book’s contents?
@Britlinrose@MinneauxTex@rjmyers@RegalDelight an unrelated third party by comparing the testimony of multiple people involved and examining a vast body of documentary evidence, and reconstructing the life of someone in your own family primarily from your own memories. The latter may certainly be described as “a memoir
@sands_parg@Oceanjasperx@BBCNews because memoirs can amount to little more than self-justification left behind by the people who wrote them. They are not required to be neutral, and the author is free to exaggerate whatever reflects well on them while simply leaving out anything inconvenient or unfavorable.
@sands_parg@Oceanjasperx@BBCNews So what if he’s a historian? If anything, diaries and memoirs do not provide neutral or reliable evidence of what actually happened. In historical research, they are precisely the kind of sources that need to be treated with skepticism and subjected to source criticism.
@milli_mlenary@girlb3hindaura I don’t give a damn how you came into existence, and I genuinely couldn’t care less. I’ve told you over and over again not to derail the discussion.
@milli_mlenary@girlb3hindaura by those risks.
So how much longer are you going to keep hiding behind platitudes like “it’s nobody else’s business,” “she consented,” or “women have agency,” pretending that this is somehow the progressive position while feigning ignorance and dodging responsibility?