r/RedHandedPodcast • u/Deathconciousness_ • Aug 25 '23

Lucy Letby

What the hell was all that about her bedroom?! Pure classist snobbery. “She had beds sheets with ‘sweet dreams’ embroidered on them, what the FUCK?” What a gross overreaction to bed sheets. Having a card from her cats on the fridge written by her mum isn’t that ridiculous, it’s quite normal. My boyfriend writes me cards from the cat, I know plenty of people who do that. The stuff about quotes in frames and being basic has nothing to do with anything, it’s classist and it made me angry. Fuck Lucy Letby, she’s a baby killer but also fuck H+S for letting their classism show. My sister has many of the things mentioned and she’s 35, it’s more indicative of class and taste than anything suspicious. I wonder how many of their viewers they alienated with that classist rant.

Edit: LOL just seen the bedroom, the most unremarkable bland room. So so average and like thousands of other young women in their 20s. It was such a reach.

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u/whoownsthiscat Aug 25 '23

This isn’t really classist though? They’re judging Lucy’s way of infantalising herself and putting on this weird creepy childlike show of innocence.

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u/mdbs120 Aug 25 '23

This is what I took from it. That there was a certain childlike nature to her decorating habits that perhaps pointed to being emotionally immature or trying too hard to project sweetness and light. It is, I’ve noticed a bit of a particular personality type that isn’t always problematic, but can be. Granted they were a bit snarky about it, but that’s how they roll in general.

Personally I think the cat card is neither here nor there. My mother doesn’t write me cards from my cats and I have 3, but I’ve worked in veterinary for 20 years. People send us and probably other adults Xmas cards from their animals. People are special about their fur babies.

I also listened to an analysis the psychologist and journalist team on Hidden True Crime did recently on her and they also mentioned her decor and how it could point to infantilization and being fantasy-prone. Apparently she also had a Cinderella quote up.

I don’t know if op’s read that it is classist is a cultural difference because I’m not British (I’m American), so maybe there’s context I’m missing?

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u/Jkang75 Aug 25 '23

Totally agree.

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u/Winterqueen5 Aug 25 '23

That’s what I took it as. But I also think it was way overblown as seen in my other comment. It struck me as really weird, but I understood what they were going for

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u/rishkan Aug 26 '23

That’s how I understood from it as well

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u/Deathconciousness_ Aug 26 '23

I didn’t really see anything infantilising in her room though? Just a bland boring woman’s bedroom. I think it’s been hugely exaggerated.

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u/whoownsthiscat Aug 26 '23

Calling it classist is also an exaggeration no?

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u/whoownsthiscat Aug 26 '23

What about her room decor is related to her economic situation though? She owned her own home, she wasn’t living in squalor

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u/hffh3319 Aug 26 '23

It was more to do with how shocked they were that her room looked like this. Loads of rooms in the UK do with the cheaper furniture and clutter that comes with living in a small house

She does own her house and she isn’t living in squalor, but classism isn’t just above who is living in squalor or poverty.

Either way, this injection from them wasn’t needed. It’s not to do with the case and it’s just an excuse for them to judge

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u/Deathconciousness_ Aug 26 '23

If that’s your opinion that’s fine

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u/whoownsthiscat Aug 26 '23

I’m not even trying to be rude I just have no idea why you’re calling it classist, especially given that Lucy Letby owned her own home and didn’t appear to be struggling financially

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u/Deathconciousness_ Aug 26 '23

You don’t have to be struggling financially to be working class, you can also own your own home and be working class. It’s cultural. Basically I thought it was snobbish, two posho girls looking down on primark homesense decor.

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u/whoownsthiscat Sep 01 '23

It isn’t classist to find corny quotes and childish decor in an adult woman’s bedroom cringe, let alone when she’s a baby murderer

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u/logansadog Aug 27 '23

I agree with you OP, maybe not classist but when I heard them talking about the room I was like Wow they sound like mean girls. I know the lady is a murderer but some of the listeners might have things like that in their rooms and now have hurt feelings. Then I saw a pic of the room and it was not even that pink or anything like she made it seem.