KM's Paperback (PB)

[Holly Goodhead]

This thread was started with the express intention of criticising Kate McCann for using the word “mad” to describe some of the mail the McCanns received from members of the public.  I mean, just how snowflakey and politically correct can you get??!  Is “mad” now a proscribed word, along with “black”, “fat” and “he/she”? 

And supporters get accused of being Stalin-like snowflakes!  Jesu.

I started the thread to discuss the contents of the PB.  Much the same way that I started a thread to discuss the PB written by DC. 

KM used the word 'mad' to describe those suffering mental illness. 

[Brietta]

This thread was started with the express intention of criticising Kate McCann for using the word “mad” to describe some of the mail the McCanns received from members of the public.  I mean, just how snowflakey and politically correct can you get??!  Is “mad” now a proscribed word, along with “black”, “fat” and “he/she”? 

And supporters get accused of being Stalin-like snowflakes!  Jesu.

Perhaps the opening post was designed to encourage discussion about the contents of Kate's book and not about Kate as a personality.
Perhaps it required more hands on policing to ensure that the thread continued along the lines of what it said on the tin ... Kate McCann's (KM's) Paperback (PB).
My request for On Topic posting was prompted by the way in which we had managed to be directed back into the mire of general McCann opprobrium and away from the specific of Kate's book.

[Brietta]

I started the thread to discuss the contents of the PB.  Much the same way that I started a thread to discuss the PB written by DC. 

KM used the word 'mad' to describe those suffering mental illness.

In my opinion and that of the dictionary that is the recognised definition of 'mad'.

[Venturi Swirl]

I started the thread to discuss the contents of the PB.  Much the same way that I started a thread to discuss the PB written by DC. 

KM used the word 'mad' to describe those suffering mental illness.

Did she - I thought it wad the letters she was describing in such a way.  Have you got a cite?

[Holly Goodhead]

Did she - I thought it wad the letters she was describing in such a way.  Have you got a cite?

Mad and nutty used to describe the mentally ill.  She's lucky it fell under the radar. 

https://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=11064.msg558772#msg558772

[Holly Goodhead]

In my opinion and that of the dictionary that is the recognised definition of 'mad'.

The dictionary also defines my genitalia as c**t!

[Brietta]

Did she - I thought it wad the letters she was describing in such a way.  Have you got a cite?

Kate writes with great sensitivity about the problems of mental health to all concerned even expressing her concern for those whose letters were consigned to the "nutty" box.

From what she has written in her book concerning the issue I fail to see how the judgement made in the opening post is applicable or how the writer came to that conclusion.

As I say ... perhaps encouraging discussion in the absence of anything else?

[Brietta]

The dictionary also defines my genitalia as c**t!

Really??  My dictionary doesn't.

[Brietta]

Mad and nutty used to describe the mentally ill.  She's lucky it fell under the radar. 

https://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=11064.msg558772#msg558772

Under what radar ???

Perhaps certain passages in Kate's book mean a lot more to some than to others particularly when quoted out of context.

Who can ever forget the "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" outrage ... or was it "Tweedledee and Tweedledum" ???

A reeally important part of a book describing the real life disappearance of a little girl ... I think not. but there are those who do.

[Holly Goodhead]

Really??  My dictionary doesn't.

Yes really! 

The dictionary contains all sorts of words that many deem offensive and archaic. 

I would not have expected KM, as a highly qualified medi practitioner to refer to those suffering from mental illness as 'mad' and 'nutty'. 

[Eleanor]

The dictionary also defines my genitalia as c**t!

Was there any need for that?

[Holly Goodhead]

Under what radar ???

Mental health charities, British Medical Assoc (BMA) etc. 

Perhaps certain passages in Kate's book mean a lot more to some than to others particularly when quoted out of context.

Who can ever forget the "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" outrage ... or was it "Tweedledee and Tweedledum" ???

It shows someone who is somewhat judgemental which by her own admission she is. 

A reeally important part of a book describing the real life disappearance of a little girl ... I think not. but there are those who do.

A little girl who in all probability would not have disappeared had her parents not been so reckless. 

[Brietta]

Yes really! 

The dictionary contains all sorts of words that many deem offensive and archaic. 

I would not have expected KM, as a highly qualified medi practitioner to refer to those suffering from mental illness as 'mad' and 'nutty'.

Actually you are wrong in all counts in my opinion.

You have already been asked by another member to provide a cite supporting your statements ... I think it would be good if you would comply.

In my opinion you are systematically putting your own interpretation into Kate's writing which was never there in the first instance.
Unless you can explain how Kate putting correspondence into the "nutty box" becomes her calling individuals "nutty"?

[Holly Goodhead]

Was there any need for that?

Just because the dictionary provides the definition of a word doesn't mean to say its appropriate to use. 

[Holly Goodhead]

Actually you are wrong in all counts in my opinion.

You thinking I'm wrong doesn't make me so.

You have already been asked by another member to provide a cite supporting your statements ... I think it would be good if you would comply.

I have complied.  P. 379.

In my opinion you are systematically putting your own interpretation into Kate's writing which was never there in the first instance.
Unless you can explain how Kate putting correspondence into the "nutty box" becomes her calling individuals "nutty"?

Its not open to interpretation.  Its there in black and white.