#also i've seen the criticisms i know this can tend to be about white middle class trans people making it about ourselves

[wild-at-mind]

Also now I'm feeling really shit about not getting to anything for trans day of remembrance this year.

[jordanianprincesses]

I don't know if I am alone in this, but I find the royal confessions page on Tumblr very racist. Most confessions attack Meghan. They are constantly critiquing the Middle Eastern royal families (yes, they definitely deserve criticism, but the criticism on that page is not constructive; it has many racist undertones). For example, I don't support extravagant spending or inbreeding (obviously), but these people will turn a blind eye when the European royals do it but have 1000 things to say if an ME or east asian monarch steps a toe out of line. I also think they don't have a lot of respect for cultural differences in Asia. I have lived my whole life in Middle Eastern countries with monarchs and even met some of them, and they are all aggressively normal people. Yes, they may have different customs than you, but that does not give you a free pass to criticize those customs in my opinion. I feel like European royal watchers tend to exoticize Eastern monarchies. As a result, they believe that all ME monarchies are shady, even though there have been M.E rulers who are much better and far less scandalous than popular European monarchs

Hellooo , thanks for coming here is my opinion:

I like Royal confessions I almost visit that page every day. Sometimes the confessions submitted there are sooo weird/ stupid or Idk how to say it. But we should bear in mind that the admins have nothing to do with that. They stated that they submit the confessions the way they are and that doesn't mean they share the same opinions with the submitters. They welcome both positive and negative confessions. They said so many times that they're tired of receiving confessions about the British royal families and that they don't accept racist confessions. Maybe the followers of that page dislike Meghan ( so many negative confessions about her ) however to be honest I've never seen any confession about her race or something like that. I used to like Meghan but honestly I no longer like her , same with Harry ( just my opinion) however I must say that she receives so many unfair criticism and I feel sorry for her sometimes ( like when they say she's faking her pregnancy or when they doubt her good intentions while doing humanitarian work and so on... ).

About , the Arab monarchs I am positive that most submitters are Arab people. And as an Arab I must say that most of the criticism is well deserved. Am not talking about the traditions and culture differences but they're corrupt and authoritarian and they don't allow their people to criticize them. I am Arab and I can guarantee that.

* I agree with you : criticism must be always constructive. And people have to be fair specially when criticizing people they dislike.

* I remember I've seen once a racist comment: It said that : Rajwa doesn't look like an Arab because she's white. Lol Arabs have so many skin colors. In my country we have white, olive, moderate brown , brown....And you can find multiple skin colors in just one family ( that's the case in my family)