I see so many posters saying they aren’t funny enough to post - please don’t anyone ever feel like that. I’m not sure I’m funny at all but just post on regardless
I have genuinely learnt so much from peoples posts of their experiences here, like yours and I’m so grateful for people being so honest and open.
and when it comes down to it that’s why we are all here because Jack lies do such a disservice to those with actual lived experience
the humour is just to stop it grinding us all down
Your response has pushed me to make my first post. (I'm sorry I haven't figured out how to spoiler a long post yet!)
I've been lurking for about a month (is it a week? a month? Everything happens so fast in Jack Monroe time!). My origin story? I followed JM for a couple of months on twitter, but I think it must have been around the time of Molly's first posts, I somehow ended up searching her name + 'grifter' and 'liar' and Tattle shone like a beaming light of brilliant glorious truth... and dear Fraus, I have not looked back!
I've done a LOT of grunking - all the new threads over the last few weeks (it is IMPOSSIBLE to keep up - is it always this chaotic??) and I've read the wiki and thread 31 - the kitten broke me. I cannot bear it. I can only hope that like many suspect, Content is not actually living with her, but with SB. At least Cooper seems to get fed.
I'm female in my early 40s and like so many of you, I've had multiple traumas in my life and have multiple chronic health conditions, including autoimmune stuff since childhood, and other stuff as an adult including chronic widespread pain, a severe heart attack at 27, the list goes on and on - I get the full PIP award (don't get me started on battling with the ****s at the DWP!), as well as other benefits as I'm unable to work because of those physical health issues, alongside a multitude of mental health conditions - I've been through lots of counselling and 2 different courses of intensive therapy (DBT & CAT) and I'm still learning to process and live with all those things.
Finding Tattle and the JM threads has been enlightening, to say the least! I've learnt SO much from people here, reading how JM's behaviours mirror their own experiences with similar people in their lives, things they've gone through themselves. Seeing it all laid out - the grift, the dodgy charity stuff, the ever changing medical arsenal she uses to excuse away her behavious, the animals, the way she treats/speaks about SB, all of it, the lies upon lies upon more lies... it's shocking!
She is willingly, knowingly, seemingly gleefully, taking money from people and providing nothing. Some of those people are idiots, plenty of them are, but some of them are just naive and kind-hearted people, often the poorest and most vulnerable, who have been taken in by her tales of woe, sending her their last £10 because she says she's removing lightbulbs and boiling soap -
I am boiling with rage at how she's been able and enabled to get away with this for so long.
But the humour helps!
It is the community in these threads that has kept me sane over the last few weeks of utter madness. Humour is such a good way to get through a horrible situation and what pushed me to make an account was that I kept wanting to react with a laughing emoji because the Fraus/Herr here kept making me laugh and I couldn't do that if I didn't have an account.
Now
duck off! (am I doing this right?)