I may be recalling it wrongly but I think the āsex workā only happened once, it was before she was a mother and she said her abusive female partner (during the pregnancy) used it against her and taunted her about it.
It was that strange article on buzzfeed where Jack later ācame outā as being the girl in the story, there was originally a false name
Itās worth revisiting that tale because itās a doozy. So horrific and yet so implausible. But only a monster would ever openly suggest that Jack is lying or embellishing. Same with the āsex workā.
What happens when your same-sex partner controls, beats, or abuses you? BuzzFeed News spoke to survivors and the only national charity trying to help others like them.
www.buzzfeednews.com
Jack, using the pseudonym āSamā describes being a mere three months pregnant the first time she is
raped by a female partner. So, after falling pregnant to a male colleague, within weeks sheās in an established relationship with a woman, which has already progressed into severe and violent abuse? But later on in the piece, talks about āLynnā lavishing her with attention and poetry in the early days of their relationship. Either the honeymoon phase went dark literally overnight, or things donāt add up.
She uses Victorian attitudes to lesbian sex to justify why she didnāt tell anyone (i.e. a woman canāt
rape a woman because it ādoesnāt countā). She talks about feeling alienated by the language used by womenās refuges, always assuming that the abuser is male (where were Jackās supportive parents and/or supportive baby daddy at this time?). Friends may not have believed that Jack was being
raped but surely Mum, Dad and Ex wouldnāt have?
The pregnancy isnāt referred to beyond the first line of the article. No talk of being afraid for the life of the unborn baby. Not even when Jack talks about having a knife held or her throat, or the final incident which is so āviolent and extremeā she canāt talk about it. She also says that Lynn
āstuck needles in meā
After Sam became pregnant, she grew isolated from her friends ā either, she says, because they were busy going out clubbing, or because some deemed her not a ārealā lesbian because of the pregnancy. They did not know that Sam had previously, briefly, worked as a prostitute to try and survive financially. But Lynn knew.
So here, Jack had sex for money pre-pregnancy. And yet in the post BlendedSlop added this afternoon, it was in 2013 (which is at the height of the poverty, when her son was small, right?)
Also, when she talks about SBās birth (silently ripping the radiator off the wall etc) she never talks about having recently escaped an abusive relationship so violent she regularly feared for their lives? Donāt you think someone like Jack would want to refer to that, even if to simply express gratitude that she had her Mum and Ex looking after her again?
Two years after the Buzzfeed article she decides to mine the story again - putting her own name to it this time.
Jack Monroe has come out as a victim of domestic violence.
www.pinknews.co.uk
I feel grubby even dissecting all of this. Because who would even call Jack a liar here? A story so violent and frightening? And yet, knowing what I know about her, here I amā¦
