Dr Jessica Taylor #6 A personality rarer than her pearl

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HelenSparkles said:
This has really annoyed me today. There just isn't a professional that doesn't know this. There might be some adults around the child/young person who don't, but professions know they are navigating this difficult path, with anyone who has been groomed.
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If she thinks this is groundbreaking information then it’s very clear that she has never worked in front line services. That post just makes her look stupid.
 
HelenSparkles said:
This has really annoyed me today. There just isn't a professional that doesn't know this. There might be some adults around the child/young person who don't, but professions know they are navigating this difficult path, with anyone who has been groomed.
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I don't understand how this is even meant to be helpful? As you've said, professionals already know this! But even if they don't how would this post help? It doesn't offer any advice on how to improve. She's effectively saying "professionals are bad at what they do" and that's it. That's all she has to offer?

I know professionals and services aren't perfect and it is important to acknowledge areas for improvement. But someone with a platform of that size needs to be careful how they address topics like this because that post could easily put someone off accessing support because it makes it seem as though no one can provide the help they need.

Eurgh I've never despised someone I've never met as much as I do this charlatan.
 
JombleWomble said:
I don't understand how this is even meant to be helpful? As you've said, professionals already know this! But even if they don't how would this post help? It doesn't offer any advice on how to improve. She's effectively saying "professionals are bad at what they do" and that's it. That's all she has to offer?
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This is her in a nutshell.

Jessica Taylor: "VAWG services are failing traumatised women and girls by victim-blaming, labelling, medicating, and pathologizing them, so I decided to set up VictimFocus to use my 12 years frontline experience to create social change through a radical trauma-informed approach."
People listening: "Sounds pretty good. What does the approach involve?"
Jessica Taylor: "Trauma-informed services don't victim-blame, label, pathologize, or medicate women and girls."
Listeners: "Yes, but what DO they do? What's the plan?"
JT: "We have to create social change by being radical."
Listeners (wondering if a one-word question would be better): "How?"
JT: "We need to stop victim-blaming, labelling, pathologizing, and medicating women and girls."
Listeners: "Yes, you've said that, but how are you going to support them? What will this trauma-informed service actually look like in practice?"
JT: "Lol. I've been saying what we need to do for years pal. You just aren't listening because you're not ready for my radical ideas, but I don't care. A hundred years after I'm gone people will know how powerful my mind was."
Listeners (now thoroughly confused): "But - but - "
JT (brandishing a photo of her teenage self): "Look at her! She came from nothing and they all said she was worth nothing, but now she's a Sunday Times bestselling author! Congratulations to a teenage legend!"
Listeners (dazed): "Can we get back to trauma-informed care now?"
JT: "Listen pal, just cos you ain't ready to hear from a working class lesbian feminist doesn't mean I'm shutting up. You'll never shut me up cos I ain't never gonna stop fighting to end the victim-blaming of women and girls! Here's a 20 tweet thread all about ME and how amazing I am and if you actually gave a tit about women and girls you'd tell me I'm amazing, not leave me to do all the work!"
 
AccidentalAcademic said:
This is her in a nutshell.

Jessica Taylor: "VAWG services are failing traumatised women and girls by victim-blaming, labelling, medicating, and pathologizing them, so I decided to set up VictimFocus to use my 12 years frontline experience to create social change through a radical trauma-informed approach."
People listening: "Sounds pretty good. What does the approach involve?"
Jessica Taylor: "Trauma-informed services don't victim-blame, label, pathologize, or medicate women and girls."
Listeners: "Yes, but what DO they do? What's the plan?"
JT: "We have to create social change by being radical."
Listeners (wondering if a one-word question would be better): "How?"
JT: "We need to stop victim-blaming, labelling, pathologizing, and medicating women and girls."
Listeners: "Yes, you've said that, but how are you going to support them? What will this trauma-informed service actually look like in practice?"
JT: "Lol. I've been saying what we need to do for years pal. You just aren't listening because you're not ready for my radical ideas, but I don't care. A hundred years after I'm gone people will know how powerful my mind was."
Listeners (now thoroughly confused): "But - but - "
JT (brandishing a photo of her teenage self): "Look at her! She came from nothing and they all said she was worth nothing, but now she's a Sunday Times bestselling author! Congratulations to a teenage legend!"
Listeners (dazed): "Can we get back to trauma-informed care now?"
JT: "Listen pal, just cos you ain't ready to hear from a working class lesbian feminist doesn't mean I'm shutting up. You'll never shut me up cos I ain't never gonna stop fighting to end the victim-blaming of women and girls! Here's a 20 tweet thread all about ME and how amazing I am and if you actually gave a tit about women and girls you'd tell me I'm amazing, not leave me to do all the work!"
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This is basically her social media cycle in a nutshell.
 
HelenSparkles said:
This has really annoyed me today. There just isn't a professional that doesn't know this. There might be some adults around the child/young person who don't, but professions know they are navigating this difficult path, with anyone who has been groomed.
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"Rarely talked about"

*tell me you've never worked front line without telling me you've never worked front line*
 
This has irked me too. When I worked in safeguarding within the criminal justice process, we were actually very good at this and had systems set up with partner agencies to sensitively manage it with the children. Where we weren’t so good was understanding that adult victims can fall prey to exactly the same grooming process as the assumption tended to be that adults should know better - it was our treatment of adult victims that was one of the key deciding factors in my resignation, not our treatment of children.

HelenSparkles said:
This has really annoyed me today. There just isn't a professional that doesn't know this. There might be some adults around the child/young person who don't, but professions know they are navigating this difficult path, with anyone who has been groomed.
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BigYellow said:
I was pretty amazed when I saw the blogs title. It's a take on WWJD (what would jesus do). It felt like she was trying to compare herself to Jesus.

I wasn't the only one to think it, people started commenting when she announced it that it was offensive because of that.
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Exactly what I thought the first time I saw it. She’s got one hell of an opinion of her self.
 
Neither (some) PhDs nor Sunday Times Best Sellers Lists are the mark of elitism ce think.

There's about 20x more PhD students than in the 1980s. Obviously the generation of PhD expansionism think the generation before them of "middle aged women" are just bitter if we grumble/mutter about standards.

The landscape is confusing. Conversely I acknowledge the competition for the best (elite) PhD programmes is probably greater than it's ever been. Bit like gold soared when people doubted real value of currencies - flight to quality.

I don't know how they audit book sales exactly but clearly there are ways to game the system. Don't know if/how self published stats or books donated under a social enterprise scheme might skew sales audit??


the-digital-reader.com

You Can Get on the Sunday Times's Best-Seller List by Selling Fewer Than 2K Copies - The Digital Reader

I know everyone is upset that Mark Dawson has publicly admitted to buying his way on to a best-seller list, but I for one was surprised to learn that the bar was so low. From The Guardian: Take the case of Mark Dawson, a British writer who just over a week ago hit No 8…
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Dike Themis said:
Neither (some) PhDs nor Sunday Times Best Sellers Lists are the mark of elitism ce think.

There's about 20x more PhD students than in the 1980s. Obviously the generation of PhD expansionism think the generation before them of "middle aged women" are just bitter if we grumble/mutter about standards.

The landscape is confusing. Conversely I acknowledge the competition for the best (elite) PhD programmes is probably greater than it's ever been. Bit like gold soared when people doubted real value of currencies - flight to quality.

I don't know how they audit book sales exactly but clearly there are ways to game the system. Don't know if/how self published stats or books donated under a social enterprise scheme might skew sales audit??


the-digital-reader.com

You Can Get on the Sunday Times's Best-Seller List by Selling Fewer Than 2K Copies - The Digital Reader

I know everyone is upset that Mark Dawson has publicly admitted to buying his way on to a best-seller list, but I for one was surprised to learn that the bar was so low. From The Guardian: Take the case of Mark Dawson, a British writer who just over a week ago hit No 8…
the-digital-reader.com the-digital-reader.com
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Jess could easily have bought 2k copies, for reselling through her website. I assumed she had a big pile of them somewhere as they'd be given out to staff for free.

Selling 2k copies of a book doesn't mean it's good. It means there was a lot of hype causing people to buy it. I think that whole weird Prime drink thing shows that. People were desperate to buy it, despite most people saying it just tasted like squash. Selling a lot of something doesn't equate to quality.
 
Was there not a workshop promotion ie come to workshop get signed book included? Also if books "given" to some organisation as marketing / charitable / social enterprise.
Just wondering at the accounting treatment of this ie if you can buy books but then write it off as marketing costs or it's part of a package at a training event it really might not be that expensive to be a Sunday Times Best selling author. My accounting & tax deduction knowledge is not sophisticated enough to work this all out.

For the rest of the day I'll be writing ✍️ 🤣
 
I remember someone here posting how she liked to fight with trolls and seemed to get a kick out of being so famous and special thst people dislike her. She likes it.


I find this so funny. To share this? Like, why?

So people rush in and say "nooooooooo Jess you're special and not like that at all ...."

Fishing for compliments 24/7
 
Reddit is full of sexist alt-righters and water is wet, what else does she expect? It's evidently an old post (she reverted to Taylor years back) and a quick search shows that there's a number of threads in support of her - mostly on Female Dating Strategy and a subreddit in support of Amber Heard. She's blatantly just fishing for attention. It's like if I, a mixed-race person, went onto a site known to attract white supremacists and then acted surprised they were saying vile things about me
 
witchofwestbyfleet said:
Reddit is full of sexist alt-righters and water is wet, what else does she expect? It's evidently an old post (she reverted to Taylor years back) and a quick search shows that there's a number of threads in support of her - mostly on Female Dating Strategy and a subreddit in support of Amber Heard. She's blatantly just fishing for attention. It's like if I, a mixed-race person, went onto a site known to attract white supremacists and then acted surprised they were saying vile things about me
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The person who does Female Dating Strategy is high up in VF, that's why, because Jess pays her (and promises lots she probably won't deliver).
 
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