In Reply to a Comment
One of the first questions we asked each other after launching our blog was, “Is anybody out there reading it?” Comments that are posted let us know that we have some readers, family members included. We value all comments whether they are specific to a posting or in general.
We stated in our purpose that we are three American and three British women who are married to Jordanians and have lived in Jordan for many many many years! We want to share our experiences and views of our lives in Jordan. In doing so we may be critical of life here at times – but we insist that our criticism be constructive not petty or malicious in any way. Writing can be misinterpreted and misunderstood as easily as speech, and we apologize to ‘staghounds’ if they were able to infer from a recent posting that we were criticizing specific people. We were not. We were criticizing drivers from the palace and people from the royal protocol.
The fact that the commentator, ‘staghounds,’ knows Jordan, and has lived here, makes his comments most interesting. Please continue reading and commenting. A-Z
We stated in our purpose that we are three American and three British women who are married to Jordanians and have lived in Jordan for many many many years! We want to share our experiences and views of our lives in Jordan. In doing so we may be critical of life here at times – but we insist that our criticism be constructive not petty or malicious in any way. Writing can be misinterpreted and misunderstood as easily as speech, and we apologize to ‘staghounds’ if they were able to infer from a recent posting that we were criticizing specific people. We were not. We were criticizing drivers from the palace and people from the royal protocol.
The fact that the commentator, ‘staghounds,’ knows Jordan, and has lived here, makes his comments most interesting. Please continue reading and commenting. A-Z
posted by joladies at Wednesday, April 26, 2006
1 Comments:
Thank you for your kind words. I recognised that you were not criticising HMQ, but the actions of her staff.
A fish rots from the head down. The lackeys take their tone from the boss, they know what conduct is expected.
This is not an unimportant detail. I believe that a monarch is, and should be, held to a very high standard of behaviour. That includes a demonstrated respect for the dignity of his subjects. He need not deprecate himself- people expect a king to be different- but he ought not to show contempt for his subjects either.
I'm probably influenced by my own experience, but I've found that people of the "Don't you know who I AM?" stripe just expose their own insecurity about themselves.
HMQ knows about all this stuff, she's heard of Marie Antoinette and Tsarina Alexandra. It just doesn't apply to her.
After all, she came in an "equal third" at the 10 k race.
I'll definitely keep reading here- this is an interesting blog, 6 different perspectives!
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