I see it less as defensive, more as respectful if I'm honest. until I joined these forums I didn't know that Jack had changed her name by deed poll, and whilst I agree with you that she's as insincere as they come and I wouldn't believe her if she said the sky was blue; if she's legally changed her name, then Jack Monroe is her name.I wish Jack hadn’t bought goat
I’m always really interested at the idea of “deadnaming” Jack. I know she has tenuously linked her name change to being trans but I really see it as a manoeuvre similar to that of a conman. I perceive that she was trying to escape any notoriety from being a twit in her early, varied employment, and to avoid being connected with her well-known father in her local area. Especially when trying to make her name as a povvo.
The way she uses variations of her name (e.g. wheeling out Xatzinikolas on her Facebook and those therapy blogs) where it suits her also smacks of those unsavoury sorts you see on Crimewatch “Andrew Smith also known as David Smith and Andrew Jones” etc.
I’m not a twit so I’m not gonna use her old name but I’m always intrigued that it’s one thing people still seem to get quite defensive about here. In my eyes she’s got deceit written right through her like a stick of rock, and the name change is part of that.
I have a Greek first and last name that is difficult for people to pronounce (heaven knows why - it is fairly straightforward) but since starting school almost 40 years ago, people have got my name wrong. Colleagues who I've worked with for years still mispronounce my name. My partner went through a phase of calling me an abbreviated version of my name and his friends called me an abbreviation of that. As a result I felt at times like my identity was diminished and I'm very sensitive about people naming others correctly. I've pulled people for mispronouncing my name, my siblings names and even colleagues names, so I'm very much with the majority here.
