Jack Monroe #107 The writing’s on the wallpaper

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moglits

Christ I needed a cig after reading that
 
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Cuileann

Veronicaaa said:
I don't really have the time to unpick the whole Sia thing but I thought this was a pretty good response.

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I think the issue here is that Sia is making out that playing the role of a sex worker or a drug addict is less important, as they're 'less important' as people.

As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with the criticism Sia is getting (although not with the delivery - huge pile ons on Twitter are not a fair or productive way of trying to get someone see sense.) My issue with Jack is that she's made it about her. Again. And she's using ADHD/autism/arthritis to try and excuse herself. Again.

ETA: but yes, having trans and disabled actors in high powered roles absolutely has to be happening more. The way I read it wasn't that Jack had issue with them in the film, but issue with Sia's response about the people they're playing. If that makes sense?
 
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Captainmouse

Her sense of entitlement is stratospheric, she is so full of self importance, the whole universe should revolve around her or she stamps her Smol ickle feeties and releases the flying monkeys
 
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LennyBriscoe

It was like when Nicola Adams had to leave Strictly because her partner had COVID - she jumped in feet first because this had been a same-sex dance partnership and didn’t even stop to think that Nicola had to isolate so that’s why they couldn’t give her a different partner.

And she has the cheek to say she didn’t want a pile-on from Sia’s fans

AND! She triggers me and I suspect she triggers an awful lot of others who read this thread and we deal with it in our own ways and carry on as best we can. She is such a drama llama and can turn anything around to be about her in a heartbeat. Twitter isn’t your friend Jack and you are your own worst enemy - not us.
 
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jenny2603

ChickenPorridge said:
She'll be fuming that she hasn't caused a massive fuss and isn't trending.
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She'll be even more fuming that her false depiction of us as ableist bigots hasn't shut us up and that we're continuing to treat her with the contempt she so richly deserves.

Scarletfever said:
She would have been expecting a load of attention over "former sex worker" but nobody gives a shit
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Nobody believes it but no one wants to be the one to say it.
 
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Oofadoofa

Blurp said:
Small quibble, is it not a lie-in rather than a lay in?

ETA: Unless, of course, you're getting a shag in the process.
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AAAH, Had a feeling that was wrong as I wrote it! It's been a long day..
 
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Professor Slop

Update on the beer bread recipe attempt by a brave squiggle as reported by @lilamay . Red squiggle is the attempter, blue squiggle would like to attempt but is confused that there are only 3 ingredients.

Luckily red squiggle can adapt and helpfully posted a genuine bread recipe with clear instructions and no tale of woe backstory included so it fit into two tweets. Clearly she has no idea what she is doing and is not a maverick.
 
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Universal

LavaFlake said:
Imaging moving rooms that much I find it exerting enough changing a duvet cover every week lmao.

Thank you @HarderFaster, @spirals & @TurnedUpInTipp for confirming the meds stuff. Her attitude of presenting ADHD as unmanageable disease is dangerous.
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Jumping ahead to say (without myself) that meds are the difference; from a confused, frustrated adult to someone who can make sense of the world, I have spent years in this field. The early years we spent on the behaviour of children. Its not been until recent years that there has been significant research into adults and investment in treating people who have originally 'coped' but its been a daily struggle, and when unable to cope can turn to other substances to calm the mind.

TV Presenter Adrian Childs has recently been diagnosed with ADD - he said suddenly all of mad bits of his life made sense.

Adrian Chiles on being diagnosed with ADD as an adult – podcast

Suddenly the good, the bad and the mad bits of his life started to make sense. The broadcaster describes the impact the diagnosis has had on his life
www.theguardian.com

Great to see someone so successful and measured talk about his experience.
 
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Captainmouse

jenny2603 said:
More Squiggles waking up. Poor Jack at the rate she's going she'll have no one left to lie to. View attachment 317759View attachment 317760
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Wonder if her 'followers' are happy being referred to as vengeful flying monkeys? Nasty nasty mackie, it’s different when you are rinsing them for money With your disgraceful cosplay.

mackie YOU ARE A DISGRACE, any other person would be ashamed, but as a grifter, you are all about the money without a second thought for anything or anybody.
 
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acca00

She moans about all her "ailments" and "autism" and how she has a rep in the industry as being "hard work" - but it's a BUSINESS.

Most people in TV are freelance or on short-term contracts. Production is low pay, with tight budgets.

Nobody has time to pander to a spoiled privileged woman in her 30s who behaves like an adolescent, with magically appearing new "illnesses" requiring special attention. And I stress the word ATTENTION, because that's what it's all about.

Particularly one who can't fucking cook anyway. Her DKL and Hellmann's gigs were an embarrassment.

Jack needs to grow up and show concern for others for once in her life - and stop hiding behind pretend medical conditions that she DOES NOT have. It's offensive to people who do have those conditions.

Maybe then she'll manage to get some work that is more than a 10 minute web episode in somebody's kitchen.
 
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moglits

Okay despite my flippant comment earlier I’m actually progressively cheesed off.

Jack literally listing conditions as excuses for her behaviour really, really grips my shit. I have complex PTSD - the kind that gives me nightmares that my poor husband has to cuddle and comfort me through, the kind that up until embarrassingly late on in life had me wetting the bed when the nightmares got especially bad, the kind that left me with horrible self-doubt and anxiety - and not once have I ever used that as an excuse for my failings.

My failings are my failings. They are because of me. Sometimes they may genuinely be rooted in my traumas, but that doesn’t excuse them. Maybe explain, but never excuse.

We’re all human. We all balls up. But not all of us do so from a place of manipulation, a place of deception, a place of excuse-making.

I don’t want to be a dick. But I achieve more in a working week, fuck, a day, than Jack, and there’s no call for celebration there. I don’t want a round of applause and a smack on the bum for doing what we’re all really supposed to do. Function when we can, be kind where we can, make a difference where we can.
 
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Professor Slop

Blurp said:
Small quibble, is it not a lie-in rather than a lay in?

ETA: Unless, of course, you're getting a shag in the process.
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This is for her Americans. I have a friend from Texas who's always on about going for a "lay-down", or when I ask what she's doing it's "laying in bed reading". It grates on me massively. I think calming thoughts and remind myself that it's not worth being snarky and falling out over, but still...

...Or maybe my friend has been sending hints all these years that I've been completely oblivious to. Lord knows it wouldn't be the first time!
 
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