The fake English accent she parrots is offensive. For starters, it’s a cockney accent, which sounds nothing at all like the BBC accent my father had drilled into me when I was a child. Going off Mara’s impression, she doesn’t know the difference between a distant member of the royal family and an extra in the cast of fucking ‘Oliver.’ I’ve never given her existence a moment’s thought before, but I do now…and I decide very quickly that I wouldn’t piss on her even if she was on fire. “Why don’t you go fuck yourself with a hep-infected dildo, Bancroft?” I enunciate to make sure she can understand
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