CathyReaywrites (formerly thatsinglemum)

[nothanksbabes]

The reality is, while it would be great if every organisation and publication was inclusive, Cosmo is under no obligation to even respond to her to the degree that it did. If she doesn't like how its articles are produced she's free to not buy or read it. And let's be honest, no reply would have made her happy. She didn't have any sort of substantive response when they replied to her anyway and was quite obviously out of her depth. She's very fortunate we live in an age where we can weaponise identities to legitimise our arguments because she's certainly not saying anything worthwhile at the minute.

 

[fizzyjerk]

I think that in older generations of black families smacking was more normalised. Doesn’t mean it’s okay though.

I’m mixed race by the way, which makes me more qualified to speak on this than Cathy.

She probably thinks she’s being a good ally, but really should have kept quiet on this one. Major cringe.

 

[Hinchy’s Tamagotchi]

And posting this all the time her little one was ill in hospital....classy

I can’t believe she did it. I wouldn’t give a toss what ‘contractual obligations’ I had, I wouldn’t be posting #ads for a company offering courses on squirting from my child’s hospital bedside! Just bizarre!

 

[nothanksbabes]

She's like a fucking teenager."My name doesn't reflect who I am blah blah bullshit".

Well, it's your name and you've had it for three and a half decades so it's as much you as anything else you whopper.

 

[Santasbeard]

Completely agreed with the above posts. Let kids be kids. Kids don't question gender roles unless we make it an issue. And kids at their age are so young, it seems cruel to be putting all this on them.

She's making poor Mariama into a little version of herself and I think some of it may be for IG effect. It was only a while ago where she wouldn't share her girls names and had a big thing about how she asks her children for consent and doesn't post any personal photos. The poor kids now are being used to get as many IG freebies as possible. Disgusting.

 

[Jumpindesia]

People that talk about sex like her ain't getting none.
Its giving me horny virgin 15 year old/Jay from in-betweeners

 

[saagpaneer]

She’s such a sodding name dropper.

Nothing more to add except that I truly believe many of these messages are sent to Cathy by Cathy.

Her behaviour is really quite bizarre sometimes. I think perhaps all of her real life mates are quite straight laced (and so is she) so she thinks vibrators, ‘funny’ selfies etc are hilarious and totally risqué. Whereas we moved on from that when we stopped being teenagers and don’t feel the need to ‘normalise’ talking about wanking because we know everyone does it and it’s really not that interesting!!!!

 

[UniversallySpeaking]

I can’t stand the constant ‘the algorithm stops people seeing my posts please share!!’ Honestly I just find it so cringe Perhaps people just get fed up of your content Cathy

 

[Instashamous]

‘WhAt WiLl ThE gOvErNeRs SaY’ she’s trying to hard to be ‘different’ it’s seeming more and more inauthentic. She’s going through that cycle teenagers have where they try to piss off their parents.

 

[Shrekssister]

Can’t she be reported for her bullshit , surely she’s broke the rules somewhere ? She’s just so smug

That would be very ableist of you, didn't you know Cathy can do no wrong and if she does something wrong it's because of society's ableism and the patriarchy. Check your privilege

 

[nothanksbabes]

She's so cringe. Inventing a queer poly personality for herself because she lacks any substance as a human.

 

[J2607]

The holy trinity of really fucking annoying

 

[Geee]

No one would have noticed the sex toy wire Cathy. Are you 12?

 

[sheleg]

Being "poly" and "queer" are absolutely meaningless claims when you ain't getting any.

 

[Shrekssister]

Cathy saying hitting children shouldn't be illegal because its racist.

Fuck off cathy, no one should be hitting children regardless of skin colour. It's more racist of you to assume black parents are more likely to hit their kids.

 

[nothanksbabes]

She's a piss poor writer, proper GCSE fodder. Luckily she can blame ableism and not her own mediocrity for being overlooked in favour of actual journalists though.

She prattles on about how being disabled means she thinks things "aren't for her", but she's definitely got that middle class sense of wild entitlement despite no discernible talent.

 

[Bigmouth_bigpants]

Why does she changer her pronunciation and accent from middle class english to almost a black London youngster twang? Or is it just me? The way she speaks seems to definitely change.

Because she hates that she’s white and had a comfortable middle class upbringing!

 

[tablesandchairs]

Lying about how qualified she is for a job to that extent really tells you all you need to know about what sort of person she is.

Also, managing people out of a business is a pain in the arse. Presumably her standard of work wasn't so painfully poor they'd risk being accused of ableism by pulling her up on her shit. That said, she's not a great writer in English is she?

i think it’s total bullshit. The entire story just made up. There’s no way it happened. If they required fluent German surely she’d have had to speak it in the interview and then speak it if she got the job and people would have realised she couldn’t. No way, liar liar pants on fire.

 

[Schmickles2020]

Also, as a non-learning diaabled woman she needs to live by her own advice and stop trying to speak on behalf of people with learning disabilities, seen as though she's no direct lived experience relating to it.

Or are the rules different for her?

 

[dreamalittledream]

It won’t matter... she’ll only moan it wasn’t accessible enough/cis het male owned/not enough sultanas in scones/too many rude people/the queen wasn’t there to greet her. Someone needs to warn the hotels of London that Cath’s on her way!!