She leads such a sad life. She's constantly trying to be productive even when she's twirling around a field or reading a book while she hopefully, doesn't walk into a post. Or a tree. Who studies BEFORE the semester? How does she even know what the syllabus is? Maybe it's different where she lives, but when I went to college, we didn't get the syllabus until the first day. It seems like she knows exactly what her classes will contain before she ever gets there. As for her appearance, she's looking more and more like I little girl. If I didn't know anything about her, and I saw a photo of her, I would think she was about 12 years old. Yikes.
And she wasn't even bullied. By all accounts, her "bullying" amounted to people just not wanting to be friends with her in school and maybe making passive-aggressive comments to her because she was a judgemental, conceited little buzzkill who actively made her fellow students' days worse by encouraging and reminding teachers to assign homework to everyone. Her "bullying" was so intense that, according to her, she forgot/didn't realise that she'd been "bullied" until years later.
Then she acts like she's a brave survivor - a voice for the downtrodden - and compares her experience to that of concentration camp survivors. It's like her having a dream where she stubbed her toe, then going to a cancer ward to tell a bunch of terminally ill children that she knows exactly how they feel as a result. She's a delusional lunatic.
It's unbelievable she actually even said this to me but she did! Wow. This is probably one of the most tone deaf things she's ever said, and that's coming from Ruby. Her view of the world is so unbelievably black and white. She is like a sheltered 12 year old, and I know a sheltered 12 year old family member that would likely have better takes than her.
I also find her fixation on bullying bizarre. So she was excluded, maybe teased a bit in primary school? Who hasn't been? Considering how much of a pet and tattle she likely was, this was inevitable. FFS Ruby.
Had a nosy at the blog. She self published a book of poetry on "Freedom Day", and blogged about that. One of the poems is called, "Two Daughters". Unsurprisingly it's about Ruby and Marfa. It's a bit twee but could still give Ermit'smenthol a run for its money.
She also has a poem called 'Covid Day' about getting sick with the 'rona and doing housework. I thought it might be a sign that coronavirus had ripped through that fetid house, but considering it also says she did a lot of cleaning and chores, I'm guessing the covid part is pure fiction, too.
"Having lunch with old friends recently, I was told that I am not very feminist because of being super excited about my new 'Hoover' coming today"
"I have ordered a pink, Barbie style, upright Sebo, which I know doesn't sound very feminist at all"
Dear god, if Ruby learned her definition of feminism from her mother, no wonder she thinks that all things pink and sparkly are beneath her, and is determined to be not like other girls, she's been raised by someone who apparently doesn't quite understand feminism. I'm convinced that her mother just isn't very bright, this piece of writing is utter nonsense. My flat last year at uni didn't have a mop, and when I eventually got one holy shit I was over the moon. I was similarly excited when we got a new oven. Those things in no way negate my feminism. What the actual fuck??? Also once again, why don't they get a cleaner? Surely they can afford it, and they'd be providing employment to people who desperately need it at the moment.
Her blog entries are full of Tory energy, casual racism, wildly embellished stories and failing at life but blaming other people. She has an entire blog entry devoted to a trip to Bath. Only one out of the five lengthy paragraphs mention the trip to Bath, the rest is devoted to her accidentally booking two holidays at once through sheer stupidity. Naturally, technology is to blame, not her own stupidity. It's easy to see where Ruby gets her traits from.
Molly and Blakeney both have short hair, I wonder if Ruby would be tempted to copy? Then again it wouldn’t be very Victorian I suppose. I’m actually surprised Ruby doesn’t research and cosplay elaborate updo’s to match the aesthetic she is trying to portray.
I couldn’t get over the courgette porridge, that was literally oats, courgette and milk? Water? Who knows? I’m all for bland food in the mornings but no sugar or spices? I was heaving a bit with that recipe.
I can not get over the fact that she put that in her porridge. I'm also vegetarian and I call them zucchinis. The reason she has them for breakfast is because she is restricting her calories and its a vegetable = low sugar.
I see she has another #ad up for some bs app that she supposedly uses for her mindful reading routine This totally fits in with her elaborate plans to reduce screen time, right? And is 100% in keeping with her rule to stick with one note-taking method?
Her grades confuse me so much. The way she comes across in her videos sounds like lack of intelligence or ignorance rather than lack of effort. Yet she always gets good grades. I don't even know anymore
I’m happy to comment on this because I go to Exeter also!
Compared to other unis they mark harshly imo but so do most Russell Groups.
She has easy assessments, from what I watched on her grades videos she had a lot of graded participation, quizzes, presentations etc. Didn’t she have to dress up for one of them ?
I think she does a lot for the grades she gets, I would’ve expected higher grades from her considering she’s constantly reading and I presume she does all he readings. I easily get a 70 on a last minute essay I do overnight without really dwelling on it because I tend to work smart and I know the mark schemes well. A 75 for participation is relatively easy to get too, I got a 76 average for online quizzes I did every week last term without reading the material extensively. I don’t work nearly as much as she does I just know what’s expected of me.
I do not get why an English student would choose to write her notes by hand, either on paper or on an iPad, when typing is so much quicker, more versatile and requires less effort. I get that someone who is studying, idk, Engineering and needs to write equations or draw diagrams and stuff can only do that by hand, but Ruby is studying Eng Lit. I imagine her notes are a lot like mine. My International Law notes are 120 pages long in a Word document. Can you imagine if I wrote all of that by hand?
Then I make mindmaps and stuff by hand when I'm studying because it helps me remember but writing out extensive/discursive notes by hand I do not get at all.
I will admit to having gone through three gel pen refills (take note, Roobee, refills!) in the past four weeks because I did a thing and read through 16 Shakespeare plays, and the way my brain works is that the things I write down by hand have some chance of sticking in my brain and the rest... not so much. However, I’m not necessarily ever going to go back and look at those notes again, because I’m just doing this for fun. If I was a student, I would spare my poor hand and find far more efficient study methods.
Of course if I was doing it Roobee style, I would now go on to rewrite my 70+ pages of notes in rusty dip pen and then write a summary in Notion.
I have so many problems with this for two reasons. The first is being a bit naughty at three is normal. I have never met a three year old who doesn't at some point push their boundaries. You don't know how to NOT push boundaries until you DO. Secondly, the reaction of the teacher was (to me) perfectly normal. The sight of three three year olds about to jump out of a window would make me shout too out of fear and to regain control. Even at three, you as the adult have to assert authority. The fact of whether or not Ruby jumped out of the window is fuzzy so that probably means she didn't do it. The school would HAVE to tell her parents if she did that as a safeguarding issue and you can bet your bottom dollar, if she had jumped put of a window, her parents would remember it. The fact this teacher never came back is very odd to me. She was fired? For what, having a normal human reaction to children in danger? That's very very strange.
As I have said before, I am a pre-school teacher and this is so far off base, I'm legit amazed at this. Firstly, being in nursery at age three is quite usual as in the UK, children go to school the school year after their fourth birthday. Some unfortunate children who are born in September are only a few weeks away from five when they start so Ruby going to pre-school at three is not unusual at all.
The ethos of Early Years is to create an environment where learning through play is the norm. Ruby says she was only in nursery for three days before this happened so she was still settling in. Settling in is actually a vital part of the journey a child takes in pre-school. It is where a child learns the routines, what is expected of them and slowly gets to know people. If on the third day of pre-school, Ruby jumped out of a window and ran around with no thought of how an adult would react, I think that is indicative that Ruby had no boundaries as a very young child. She was centre of attention, apple of Mummy's eye, doing ballet, used to being filmed and followed around. Ruby is the star of the show. Ruby is in control. How typical.
So, then she goes on to say that this is the worst thing she's ever done and her mother told her the teacher was fired when she was seven. My question is why? Did she tell her just to tell her or was she telling her as a cautionary tale so Ruby would see how out of control she was and how she needed to stop pushing her boundaries creating guilt, a desire to please and to do her best to atone for such behaviour? That's mad!
When she talks about her "detention" (you don't give three year olds detention - it's pointless!), it's the next day which is a waste of time because it's been and gone. If they were going to give her time out, it needed to be when the incident happened. Sit her down, explain why she had to sit still and then give her no attention. To do it the next day is beyond pointless. Sitting inside drawing pictures isn't a punishment. It's a play activity. It doesn't give any indication to the child that they are being admonished for poor choices. Something about this does not add up to me at all.
It reminds me of Taylor Swift's lyrics in her song, seven -
Please picture me in the weeds
Before I learned civility
I used to scream ferociously
Any time I wanted
Three year olds are supposed to push their boundaries and adults are supposed to correct them. This video is so worrying to me because Ruby should not feel guilty for how she was as a child. We are what we are but moreover, it is bizarre and worrying that the guilt from this is still with her fifteen years later. It's just more proof that her spirit was kind of broken by the weight of expectations and demands.
I was genuinely shocked by this video - it was laughable how she legit justified this as a 'detention' (when it so obviously wasn't) and that she actually (supposedly) remembered that many details from nursery. Being such a goody two shoes all her life I think she really had to really, really reach for a time in which she was "bad" and it ended up being nothing more than normal childhood behaviour. I will say she was very cute as a tiny blonde child though.
I think Roobee is bound to be even more upset now after losing her dog, it’s a painful process for most people when their pet dies and it’s understandable for her to be in a bit of a slump. But she’s not addressing it, one post and that’s it pretty much- trying to distract herself with outfit videos. I would say she could be speaking out about emotions and showing young followers that it’s okay to grieve, but instead she’s playing into the toxic productivity/positivity culture again. Is she worried people would call her out for attention seeking? because mourning a pet is pretty normal and only someone heartless would say otherwise. Ruby really should take a proper break, because she genuinely does look so sad right now.
Yeah I agree, I think she should really take a proper break and just allow herself to feel things for once. It’s natural to be super upset over losing a pet, when I lost my dog I was devastated for weeks. It doesn’t seem deep but when you’ve grow up with a pet since you were a kid, it can be so painful. I really hope she’s doing alright though and not just trying to avoid the grieving process, because if she is, it’ll 100% come back to bite her in the arse later on in the year.
Guys I'm confused...
Why is she making excuses for not reading The Song of Achilles? She did say in her IG story that she doesn't like it, doesn't understand the hype around it. And now she says she would love to read it but didn't have a Greek phase?? Did you not have to read the Greek Mythology? It's the basis for human nature is it not?
Fair enough if she started to read it but didn't like it, I was not a fan either. But why say she'd love to read it when she doesn't, and did state this earlier. Maybe she git IG backlash, who knows...
I mean if she really wants to read it there are plenty of resources to learn the basics of Greek mythology, both online and in physical books. I'm sure her local library has a plethora of myth collections intended for kids. That's how I first learned about Greek mythology as a kid. Or even an encyclopedia? She must have an encyclopedia in her house.
It's baffling that a Literature student and self-proclaimed scholar knows so little about Greek mythology that she can't even follow a novel about the Iliad. The Song of Achilles is a YA novel and I think it did a pretty good job at covering the basics for the reader so that you could get into it even if you are not a mythology nerd. And Greek mythology is such an important part of Western culture and especially literature.
I just watched the section with her breakfast and the amount of times she was chewing each bite really stood out to me, despite how she sped it up. She needs help.
I really don't think Ruby's take on the Harry Potter series is nuanced enough to appreciate the character of Severus Snape lol I mean he was one of Hermione's bullies so that's about it for her. I get the feeling she mostly pretends the last four books in the series don't exist
As soon as the characters show any sign of maturity and start being more independent thinkers, doers and relationships click in, Ruby opted out of the series. Too mature for her to handle. If she only reads the first few books, over and over again, she can keep them perpetually young, like she wishes she could be. Hmm. Not going to work, Rubes. You are getting older by the minute and it shows.
I really thought is was sad and pathetic that she considered time going to random places with her family as unproductive. That is just so twisted. A wise person knows that you learn from every experience, big or small, good or bad. But why must every single thing in her life be about productivity? I have never known anyone so hung up on a phrase or word. I hope she never has kids because they would have ulcers by the time they are 10 trying to meet her agenda. I would be worn out being around her after 10 minutes.
ive got a feeling she poses in her photos in a particular way to look thinner. i dont doubt she's lost weight, just not as much as she wants people to think
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Or a tree. Who studies BEFORE the semester? How does she even know what the syllabus is? Maybe it's different where she lives, but when I went to college, we didn't get the syllabus until the first day. It seems like she knows exactly what her classes will contain before she ever gets there. As for her appearance, she's looking more and more like I little girl. If I didn't know anything about her, and I saw a photo of her, I would think she was about 12 years old. Yikes.
mindful reading routine
This totally fits in with her elaborate plans to reduce screen time, right? And is 100% in keeping with her rule to stick with one note-taking method?
