Jack Monroe #56 I, Jack Monroe

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Fitnessqueen

Fitnessqueen

Perhaps she’s confusing burnout with sunburn as she was in the garden in a bikini all afternoon yesterday (but also miraculously in bed for 22 hours)?
 
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help i need some help!

help i need some help!

Imagine her family and friends reading the current tweets. I feel for them, she makes it sound like she's totally alone, and while she wallows, where is SB? When you are burned out you don't ask what it feels like, it's too late.
 
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ShowMeYourFeline

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Oh duck off Jack you’re not autistic. I am genuinely autistic (or Asperger’s as it was known back then), and I’ve noticed that the only people who use this cursed #ActuallyAutistic tag are clueless self-diagnosed arseholes like her.

Nothing she describes is autistic. ADHD, maaaaybe. But not autistic.

A reminder that she was never diagnosed, as proven by her knowing nothing about the diagnostic process and getting it all wrong (eg thinking an educational psychologist can diagnose you).
 
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help i need some help!

help i need some help!

Is she seeking advice or is it research? You would thing that someone so in tine with the state of poverty in this country that she would know what to do - sell the Emin claim ESA under the support group.
 
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ChickenPorridge

ChickenPorridge

I'm tired of hearing about her over indulgent eating all the time (sorry but thick slices of cheese dipped in butter, wtf) and then at the next farts end she can't eat, or hasn't eaten in weeks. Jack, we are TIRED. Couple of days ago she was BUSY and writing writing writing, today she's claiming she hasn't moved from her scratcher for 22 hours a day for weeks and can't function. Can somebody please just get her a lifetime supply of attention and be done with it
 
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Oofadoofa

Oofadoofa

ShowMeYourFeline said:
Jack thoughts of the day:

Regarding her alleged £2000 open house sale, I don’t bleeping believe her. People who are doing their utmost to clear out their homes would be absolutely blessed to make £200 at a proper boot or garage sale. Let alone the awkwardness of trying to attract customers into your actual home. No one would turn up, and if they did, there wouldn’t be £2000 worth to sell. If there was, like most boot sale sellers, it would be a miracle if she sold 5% of her goods. People don’t want most of the things you have. Finally, there is no way that people would be vulture-like enough to be stripping her home if things that don’t look like goods to sell. (Finally finally, not to mention she’s recently claimed she lived on the 12th floor of a tower block with broken lifts! Who’s going to bother entering a private block of flats and trudge up 12 flights of stairs to view someone’s useless junk?)

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Regarding her writing, it occurred to me that her language shows that her essays/posts/whatever are aimed at fellow middle class people, from the perspective of a middle class person.

Firstly, impoverished people don’t need to be told what being impoverished is like because they already know. Her writing is to inform the middle class.

Secondly, there is no linguistic sign that she truly sees working class people as her own. Her language feels like from the outside looking in.

She never talks *to* working class or impoverished people, and never uses “we” “our”, or describes shared experiences that are relatable to working class people. (With this last point, she sometimes intends to, but they are so unrealistic and dramatic that it’s obviously all about her being the poorest and putting on a poverty display for middle class people).

She doesn’t describe any community experiences of similar poverty, as if she was the only one going through it. Which would make sense if she had no working class friends or community.

Third, the way she describes her poverty experience is as if she found it utterly shocking, which would only make sense if she’d never experienced anything like it before, as would be the case for a middle class person. It reads like a middle class person describing their shock and horror at once dipping a toe into peasantry.
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This is an absolutely brilliant post.
 
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