Clementine Ford

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It’s triggering so not going to put the photo but she has a picture of a Palestinian child that has been injured and basically says if it interpret it correctly that she is angry with Australian women for being upset about what happened on Saturday because they never posted anything about Gaza
I knew that would be her view. Knew it. But at the same time isn’t the response to Israelis asking about the hostages that you can be outraged by both these things? It’s human nature that you react more to things that happens to people from your ‘tribe’, and that means yes for many a young white mother shopping in a centre known to so many and a bleeping baby being stabbed is massively triggering .
 
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Also the only other reference to this terrible event is to link it to someone reading her book. That’s so gross
 
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Safe to say that any credibility she did have is long gone. She's clearly mentally unwell and just completely unhinged. People are allowed to be devastated about more than one thing at the same time. People are also allowed to not post something on SM about a tragedy - generally this does nothing anyway! People are also allowed to actively disengage from trauma and traumatic events for whatever reason. She's an idiot thinking she can write all the rules and say when and what people should be posting/outraged about.
Also I don’t want to post images of dead children, children with burnt off limbs or children with stitches all over their faces and that’s ok! I’m not go into be pressured or feel guilty by Clem Ford (or anyone else) The photos she’s shared have been so triggering and never with a warning because those went out the window ages ago.
 
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Who is she to say the women of Australia don’t care about the children in Gaza? Just because we’re not posting horrific images to our instagrams everyday like she has which has done nothing to change anything doesn’t mean we don’t care. Our lives have to go just as hers has. Buts she’s allowed and no one else is.

Also, this post?? The previous things she’s said weren’t worth it? I guess she’s giving up on the whole feminism thing to become a full time Palestinian advocate. The situation in Gaza is horrific and I’m not trying to minimise it but there’s other tragedies that go on too and to only be able to care about one thing is unhinged.
 

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Who is she to say the women of Australia don’t care about the children in Gaza? Just because we’re not posting horrific images to our instagrams everyday like she has which has done nothing to change anything doesn’t mean we don’t care. Our lives have to go just as hers has. Buts she’s allowed and no one else is.

Also, this post?? The previous things she’s said weren’t worth it? I guess she’s giving up on the whole feminism thing to become a full time Palestinian advocate. The situation in Gaza is horrific and I’m not trying to minimise it but there’s other tragedies that go on too and to only be able to care about one thing is unhinged.
wowow her level of self importance is wild
 
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Why is she so triggered that a community is sad about six innocent people dying ? Are we not supposed to care because they aren’t worthy enough victims ?
 
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Her rant was so bizzare to me. Why the comparisons between Bondi and Gaza? Both are terrible. Who is she following that she thinks no one is talking about Gaza, I follow many people who post about it far more intelligently and compassionately than she does. Tell everyone how awful and racist they are, that will get them on board 🙄
 
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Her rant was so bizzare to me. Why the comparisons between Bondi and Gaza? Both are terrible. Who is she following that she thinks no one is talking about Gaza, I follow many people who post about it far more intelligently and compassionately than she does. Tell everyone how awful and racist they are, that will get them on board 🙄
She obviously thinks she's made a really profound and important point. Not only did she do a multi-story rant, she's turned it into a feed post and also dedicated a podcast episode to it. In dedication I suggest she changes the pod name from Untethered to Unhinged. As if the female population is going to rise up in response to her snide, nasty posturing. The only impact she's having is within her own fangirl echo-chamber that feeds her delusion that she can single hand-idly solve a middle eastern crisis that has existed in some form for hundreds of years.
 
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She makes me absolutely sick. Of course people getting murdered by a crazy guy with a knife in my own country (i.e close location to my family the shopping centre some attend) is going to affect me! We are allowed to be shocked and grieve. This comment by her is disgusting. She has certainly gotten on with her own life in the past few months: that Taylor Swift singing thing, the panel where she pranked people, numerous selfies and walks and rants. Not sure what else as I don’t follow anymore but she’s not been sitting in a corner crying.

Of course the images from overseas are shocking, sad and troubling and she’s the one reposting them like it’s war porn. What does she think her reposting has actually achieved?? Clem has absolutely hyper focused on Palestine to the point that she’s completely obsessed. View attachment 2878550
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Fight for these children?? HOW? Resharing someone’s IG post?
This is the heart of the whole thing for me. All these people (mostly women, depressingly) whipping themselves into a completely irrational frenzy over a complex, millennia-long geopolitical conflict they clearly don’t understand, begging and pleading for people to “help” with completely meaningless indulgent empty gestures. Why did they not give a tit about any of the other miserable wars and global tragedies affecting children/innocents?

It’s kind of mesmerising to watch, in a terrible way. As if I didn’t feel awful enough for the people of Gaza already, it’s somehow amplified by the quality of their advocates over here.
 
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This is the heart of the whole thing for me. All these people (mostly women, depressingly) whipping themselves into a completely irrational frenzy over a complex, millennia-long geopolitical conflict they clearly don’t understand, begging and pleading for people to “help” with completely meaningless indulgent empty gestures. Why did they not give a tit about any of the other miserable wars and global tragedies affecting children/innocents?

It’s kind of mesmerising to watch, in a terrible way. As if I didn’t feel awful enough for the people of Gaza already, it’s somehow amplified by the quality of their advocates over here.
Exactly this! And Clem employing such vitriol towards those who aren't following her example is just insane and speaks to her totally overblown ego.
 
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This is the heart of the whole thing for me. All these people (mostly women, depressingly) whipping themselves into a completely irrational frenzy over a complex, millennia-long geopolitical conflict they clearly don’t understand, begging and pleading for people to “help” with completely meaningless indulgent empty gestures. Why did they not give a tit about any of the other miserable wars and global tragedies affecting children/innocents?

It’s kind of mesmerising to watch, in a terrible way. As if I didn’t feel awful enough for the people of Gaza already, it’s somehow amplified by the quality of their advocates over here.
So much this. At this point Clementine's brand is now screaming at her followers that they're racists who don't care as much as she does... and having expensive facials. It's so crazy. Her activism is all performance and narcissism.

The Clementine of five years ago would have been all over the Bondi stabbings. A man deliberately trying to kill as many women as he could? Any feminist would have something to say about that. But not Clementine. Her black-and-white thinking won't allow any nuance, any compassion for more than one world event. No wonder she's losing followers.
 
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This is the heart of the whole thing for me. All these people (mostly women, depressingly) whipping themselves into a completely irrational frenzy over a complex, millennia-long geopolitical conflict they clearly don’t understand, begging and pleading for people to “help” with completely meaningless indulgent empty gestures. Why did they not give a tit about any of the other miserable wars and global tragedies affecting children/innocents?

It’s kind of mesmerising to watch, in a terrible way. As if I didn’t feel awful enough for the people of Gaza already, it’s somehow amplified by the quality of their advocates over here.
You've articulated it beautifully. In my sphere, the only people still posting relentlessly about Gaza are privileged middle class white women who intersperse horrific shares with selfies wearing scarves or pashminas and reminders to do more, care more, and that you're an awful person/worse than them at the very least if you're not. Sorry, where was your voice before? This isn't a new conflict? And I'm yet to see you weigh in on any other atrocity? It's starting to feel like a fashion statement at this stage hun.

And YOU'RE NOT ACTUALLY ACHIEVING ANYTHING. They really think they are, though 🤯

Social media has made people weird(er).
 
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Didn't she have a huge rant a while back about how it's OK for her to have fillers/injections/botox/facials because, um, reasons?

I cannot imagine paying $12 a month to read her rants on bleeping Tarot.
 
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You've articulated it beautifully. In my sphere, the only people still posting relentlessly about Gaza are privileged middle class white women who intersperse horrific shares with selfies wearing scarves or pashminas and reminders to do more, care more, and that you're an awful person/worse than them at the very least if you're not. Sorry, where was your voice before? This isn't a new conflict? And I'm yet to see you weigh in on any other atrocity? It's starting to feel like a fashion statement at this stage hun.

And YOU'RE NOT ACTUALLY ACHIEVING ANYTHING. They really think they are, though 🤯

Social media has made people weird(er).
Yes to all of this. My god the wearing of pashminas and shawls would be funny if it wasn’t so sad and bizarre.
 
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Sorry if there’s a Lauren Dubois page, but lol @ her giving her new kitten an Arabic name. Not even the bloody cat is safe from her self entitled bullshit
 
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Look, I may not agree with the way Clementine is going about things, and she is verging on unhinged. However, Mia freedman’s sheer hypocrisy is next level today, and goes to prove one of the points Clementine has been making. That women like Mia (not all women but women like Mia, who literally claim to represent women and be front and centre in modern feminism) - that she can send an email about Bondi. LITERALLY saying she cares because ‘he took the lives of those six people who were just like us.’ Just like us.

Not like those nasty people on the other side of the world.

“ and yet I lie awake at night and imagine them.”

But no words for the thousands and THOUSANDS of children who have been killed.
 
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Where's Clem on the new Taylor Swift album? Does she hate Taylor still for being a white privileged woman who dated matty healy, or does she like her because she made money touring a warbling cover show? Has she made up her mind?
 
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Where's Clem on the new Taylor Swift album? Does she hate Taylor still for being a white privileged woman who dated matty healy, or does she like her because she made money touring a warbling cover show? Has she made up her mind?
Hates her except for when she can use her to bring attention/money to herself. I’m surprised we haven’t had a rant about how dare people talk/care about the album when Palestine is not free. I haven’t forgotten she has a Jack Antonoff tattoo lol.
 
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