This is exactly it!!I had never heard of JM until I started my Social Work degree. My (least favourite) lecturer was obsessed with her. He added her to the reading list
*eye-roll* she was even featured in one of the PowerPoints with an extract from something she had written about being poor.
Someone has said it before, she is just someone for some middle/upper classes to fetishise, it is a fictional depiction of poverty that is more
palatable than the reality of life for actually impoverished people, who aren't only financially poor but don't have the social capital or the personally
perceived opportunities in life (education, social mobility etc). Not to mention adverse childhood experiences.
She's a fraud and it is really disturbing that her 'work' is being used as an educational tool. People should be equally concerned about that and the
impact of newly qualified social workers having this kind of tunnel vision than DW children books.
She is clearly addicted to SM and she will manufacture drama at any/anyones cost. if it wasn't the kitten situation it would be something else that
would garner attention and sympathy.
She’s palatable to the masses because she “boot strapped” (her vile word of choice) her way out of it, which was a function of all her MC privileges you mention.
Would be far more valuable & tbh radical to feature the realities of poverty but people don’t want to see inescapable doom & gloom, horrid living conditions, and tbh people don’t care for non white non British non (Eurocentric) beauty standard conforming people either. She is fine with all of that, too