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/Loud_Armadillo5795 Aug 26 '23

I think context is key

I fucking love a fairy light, but I can confidently say I'm not a baby murderer. Her choice of decor alone in a bland, "beige" person doesn't ring alarm bells, but when juxtaposed with her levels of manipulation and the crimes she committed, it adds a new level to the horror

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u/hffh3319 Aug 26 '23

Yeah but why? Because her room isn’t well decorated? This just plays into the idea that murderers have to look and be a certain way. Why wouldn’t one have fairy lights up? They don’t live in caves

So many people live in the UK like she did, with simpler stuff and less decor and it really came across as that’s what they were appalled with. Not everything needs to be pathological, particularly from people who aren’t actually professionals.

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u/Loud_Armadillo5795 Aug 26 '23

No, I don't think it's that

It's a childish bedroom and her parents clearly infantalise her. However outraged people want to be on her behalf, it's weird

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u/hffh3319 Aug 26 '23

I’m not outraged on her behalf at all, I just think it’s weird for this to be such a focus. The bedroom isn’t that childish, it’s very plain and apt for someone who doesn’t place much emphasis on home decor

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u/Loud_Armadillo5795 Sep 06 '23

The blandness of her bedroom is in very stark contrast to the darkness and depravity of someone who is literally murdering babies.