Hi. This is my second ever post. I registered a long time ago as was directed here by the Sali Hughes vid. I have to say I wasn't keen on the vibe so I didn't come back. Now I am here because of Jack Monroe. I've followed her for a long time because I liked her books and her writing but after a while I started to notice some inconsistencies, odd details (I can't afford bus-fare to take my kid to school despite being a best-selling author, journalist, commentator and so on) and weird timeline of events around her career and how long she was in grinding poverty etc. that made no sense whatsover (I'm very much a details person so I tend to notice this stuff). I also got increasingly annoyed with the way she handled the whole trans thing which was obviously a phase and her suddenly deciding she was female again when she won a Women of the Year award or whatever it was. She is very quiet about that period of her life interestingly. The threatening people with legal action on the Kickstarter campaign was awful, not to mention the relentless bullshit she posts on Twitter about her personal life. It seems terribly convenient how she is always a victim and manages to hit evey 'intersection' going in regards to identity.
The main issue I have was that I really was brought up in poverty and have experienced grinding poverty for a loong loong time, so I find her constantly pleading it whilst flashing off her nice home and various paraphernalia really really insulting. I find the whole 'I am Queen of the Povos' schtick really upsetting when in actual fact she experienced poverty for a relatively short time. You'll notice the timeline changes a lot - one minute it is six months, the next eighteen months - I feel like she is tourist and we are all here to make her feel better and tell her how much of saviour she is.
I also have a chronic illness and take a shedload of medication and struggle to get tit done on a daily basis. I find her competitiive 'I'm so very very disabled' act quite insulting as well. She may well have arthritis, I'm not suggesting she doesn't, but her behaviour and actions often don't reflect what she says. Take this mornings postings. How, if she is so delirious in pain, has she managed to get up, get dressed up, take her picture and go out to the supermarket early in the morning? Does she forget what she posted? It's there in black and white! The hyperbole and shoe-horning in anything to see her as a victim does my head in, as well as the rage postings when someone corrects her or challenges her.
With all this in mind, I've decided she is not who I thought she was and have breathed a sigh of relief when I found this board. I'm not the only one noticing the absolute horseshit she comes out with on a daily basis.