Why are Irish women in general so fascinated by the British Royal family?

gormdubhgorm · 20-05-2015 10:00PM #1

With Prince Charles visiting Ireland - it struck me how all the Union Jack flag wavers were women/young children.

My own mother seems to have great interest in Royal Baby x, y or z. Funnier still she tells me that my grandmother used to have great fascination with the British royals and used to read Hello magazine.
But I was also told of stories how the Black and Tans used to announce outside houses in my Grandmothers day and say "Open up in the name of the law" while battering the door.

How do women seem to ignore political realities and celebrate a persons arrival who only happens to be there by birthright? Phrases used are "elegant" "style".
The women seem to get very excited about the whole thing is this because they are "celebrities?
For women in general, does celebrity and spectacle triumph over political realities?

keeponhurling · 20-05-2015 10:02PM

Women seem to be generally more interested in "celebs"
Not only the British royal family

OldMrBrennan83 · 20-05-2015 10:02PM

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darkpagandeath · 20-05-2015 10:03PM

Nearest country with a monarchy. They would do the same if the Norwegian Royals came over.

Knasher · 20-05-2015 10:03PM

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

For women in general, does celebrity and spectacle triumph over political realities?

I don't know, but it will be interesting to see how many people are glued to the World Cup in Qatar, considering the slave labour that has gone into setting it up. The previous World Cup, and Russian Olympics also had some troubling political realities, but I really hope that Qatar crosses a line for people.

LeinsterDub · 20-05-2015 10:03PM

Royal family == English soccer teams for the women folk

Aurum · 20-05-2015 10:06PM

I'm an Irish woman and I think that they're the noxious, anachronistic remnants of medieval feudalism and the personification of everything that is wrong about hereditary privilege.

Mr_Muffin · 20-05-2015 10:10PM

It's because they all secretly want to become a princess and have that dream wedding in front of the entire world.

In other words all women want to be a princess.

byhookorbycrook · 20-05-2015 10:11PM

I'm more interested in the historical aspects and the people of Mulllaghmore in particular in this visit. I don't do royal babies, clothes or any of that crap, I have a life.

20-05-2015 10:11PM

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

It's because they all secretly want to become a princess and have that dream wedding in front of the entire world.

In other words all women want to be a princess.

Eh. No.

byhookorbycrook · 20-05-2015 10:12PM

Mr_Muffin wrote: »

It's because they all secretly want to become a princess and have that dream wedding in front of the entire world.

In other words all women want to be a princess.

Not this woman

Rothko · 20-05-2015 10:13PM

I don't know anyone that's interested in them.

bodice ripper · 20-05-2015 10:14PM

Perhaps something about you attracts particularly vacuous women, OP.

John_Rambo · 20-05-2015 10:16PM

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Nearest country with a monarchy

+1 A lot of us grew up with the BBC. Why are Irish men in general so fascinated with British soccer teams etc...

gormdubhgorm · 20-05-2015 10:19PM

LeinsterDub wrote: »

Royal family == English soccer teams for the women folk

As long as the women don't start using the Royal "We" that Soccer supporters from Ireland use for the English soccer teams

When some guy from Ballyhaunis or Ballymun on a phone-in station and says "We" need a new manager Wenger/Rodgers has to go etc, etc :rolleyes:

Yellowblackbird · 20-05-2015 10:20PM

John_Rambo wrote: »

Why are Irish men in general so fascinated with British soccer teams etc...

If you're a good footballer from ireland where do you end up playing?

end of the road · 20-05-2015 10:25PM

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

With Prince Charles visiting Ireland - it struck me how all the Union Jack flag wavers were women/young children.

My own mother seems to have great interest in Royal Baby x, y or z. Funnier still she tells me that my grandmother used to have great fascination with the British royals and used to read Hello magazine.
But I was also told of stories how the Black and Tans used to announce outside houses in my Grandmothers day and say "Open up in the name of the law" while battering the door.

How do women seem to ignore political realities and celebrate a persons arrival who only happens to be there by birthright? Phrases used are "elegant" "style".
The women seem to get very excited about the whole thing is this because they are "celebrities?
For women in general, does celebrity and spectacle triumph over political realities?

some men seem to be the same as well. what i do hate is those who refuse to accept that some don't wish to faun over the royal family.

end of the road · 20-05-2015 10:26PM

Knasher wrote: »

I don't know, but it will be interesting to see how many people are glued to the World Cup in Qatar, considering the slave labour that has gone into setting it up. The previous World Cup, and Russian Olympics also had some troubling political realities, but I really hope that Qatar crosses a line for people.

it should, but i don't think it will sadly

silverfeather · 20-05-2015 10:26PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Eh. No.

I am one!

silverfeather · 20-05-2015 10:27PM

Fairy Princess ..best kind!:):p

TheBeardedLady · 20-05-2015 10:27PM

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

With Prince Charles visiting Ireland - it struck me how all the Union Jack flag wavers were women/young children.

My own mother seems to have great interest in Royal Baby x, y or z. Funnier still she tells me that my grandmother used to have great fascination with the British royals and used to read Hello magazine.
But I was also told of stories how the Black and Tans used to announce outside houses in my Grandmothers day and say "Open up in the name of the law" while battering the door.

How do women seem to ignore political realities and celebrate a persons arrival who only happens to be there by birthright? Phrases used are "elegant" "style".
The women seem to get very excited about the whole thing is this because they are "celebrities?
For women in general, does celebrity and spectacle triumph over political realities?

Is the only woman you know your mam? :-/

So, shall we retitle the thread as : why is my mam so fascinated by the British Royal Family (and insist on spitting on a Kleenex and wiping my face in public when I'm a big boy and can do it myself)?

ihavenoname3 · 20-05-2015 10:29PM

Probably something to do with our inferiority complex.

20-05-2015 10:31PM

silverfeather wrote: »

I am one!

Whatever you're into.

You're not all women though.

Paramite Pie · 20-05-2015 10:32PM

John_Rambo wrote: »

+1 A lot of us grew up with the BBC. Why are Irish men in general so fascinated with British soccer teams etc...

I think you just might be right. We only had RTE & later TG4/TV3. I couldn't give a flying f*ck about soccer teams or celebs/royals. Yay.

My brother watches soccer (Dad never did) but he doesn't support a team - he's just watching cos of his fantasy football thingy.

silverfeather · 20-05-2015 10:32PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Whatever you're into.

You're not all women though.

Deffo not.

Cold War Kid · 20-05-2015 10:37PM

silverfeather wrote: »

Deffo not.

Meh, I certainly didn't see you imply you were.

LeinsterDub · 20-05-2015 10:38PM

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

If you're a good footballer from ireland where do you end up playing?

Croker?

Summer wind · 20-05-2015 10:39PM

I'm a woman and I've no interest in the royals. I don't want to be a princess.

jamesbere · 20-05-2015 10:39PM

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

As long as the women don't start using the Royal "We" that Soccer supporters from Ireland use for the English soccer teams When some guy from Ballyhaunis or Ballymun on a phone-in station and says "We" need a new manager Wenger/Rodgers has to go etc, etc :rolleyes:

From a fella that supports an English team, I get great entertainment when it annoys someone that I say "we"

The_Valeyard · 20-05-2015 10:39PM

I like Prince Philip for the following reasons:

After being told that Madonna was singing the Die Another Day theme in 2002: “Are we going to need ear plugs?”

To Simon Kelner, republican editor of The Independent, at Windsor Castle reception: “What are you doing here?” “I was invited, sir.” Philip: “Well, you didn’t have to come.”

To female sea cadet last year: “Do you work in a strip club?”

To expats in Abu Dhabi last year: “Are you running away from something?”

After accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991: “Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.”

To multi-ethnic Britain’s Got Talent 2009 winners Diversity: “Are you all one family?”

To President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”

To a tourist in Budapest in 1993: “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.”

On seeing an exhibition of "primitive" Ethiopian art, he muttered: "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons."

China State Visit, 1986 "If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed"

When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union: "I would like to go to Russia very much, although the bastards murdered half my family."

To an Aborigine in Australia “Do you still throw spears at each other?”

To a driving instructor in Scotland “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”

To a woman solicitor, 1987: “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”

To the matron of a hospital in the Caribbean “You have mosquitos. I have the Press”

His unapologetic, bigoted racist remarks do make me laugh. Every time he speaks the PC brigade get a little angrier.

jamesbere · 20-05-2015 10:45PM

Their more celebs now then actual royalty, page fillers for ok and hello magazines. They serve no purpose anymore to English society, they've no power nor do they have say on any government issue's.

Why are Irish women in general so fascinated by the British Royal family?

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