Yes tbf to her I know she didn't buy all her thousands of things - I think what got me is her normalising it. She didn't put it into context into Pretty Honest (free stuff, passing it on etc) - just stated 'I own thousands of beauty products' as if this were desirable and aspirational and just a bit nerdy.
I remember the Wither Darfur comments - can't remember the exact context though. How typical of St Pimple to act the victim over it. Poor me I 've had to put up with this for ten years. For fucks sake if people mildly occasionally questioning the importance of jollop you slap on your mush is the worst you have to put up with then boo bleeping hoo.
And if I do occasionally feel sorry for her I remind myself this mess she got herself into is entirely self inflicted. And she has behaved appallingly over it. She should thank her lucky stars on a daily basis how decent we are here and not vindictive. In the face of awful bile and threats and provocation we have not released the info we have about her murky past. The fact she directed people here to find it out for themselves is her own fault. In fact as far as I can see she has got out of it all relatively unscathed. How telling that nobody now at all asks her about her traumatic vid. Nobody. That is so wierd as it was only just over a week ago. Nobody asks her about the closing down Skidmark Central campaign. It's like collective embarrassment. Apart from India Mitford who seems shameless and frankly an idiot. She actually made things worse for St Pimple all round.
Last night I sat and started reading the SH thread from the very beginning. It is so mild. Questioning her and occasionally poking fun at her as a relatively public figure. I just don't understand what the hell she thought she was doing? Was it really worth it?
I think she has definitely read the comments, at least those up until the video. The reason I'm fairly certain is because the way she characterised the comments is very similar to how I've seen her react to other criticisms. The video was a mixture of emotional manipulation taking things that were said and twisting or exaggerating them, omitting the fair criticism. She did something very similar in her argument with Owen Jones (I'm very much not an OJ fan). Kept saying how outrageous it was that he called her racist when he hadn't at all.
Ages ago someone questioned her use of a phrase in a column. They also criticised her ise of the phrase on Twitter. I don't remember if she defended herself in the guardian comments but on twitter she was unbelievably manipulative, guilt tripping the commentator andmportrayimg herself as a victim.
A lot of women will recognise that sort of behaviour. Belittling, manipulation, gaslighting. "Look what you made me do, you stupid
witch. You've driven me to snooping you on FB and liking pictures if your children on FB".