Jack Monroe #571 1-2 to us

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ETA as all my original post is in the spoiler:

Looks like lots of us have cross posted the same thing here. (And not that we should self-censor, cos she’s always relied on throwing the most horrendous forms of trauma and illness out there to sadfish, grift and/or shut down any dissent. But if it goes in the Wiki, we really to be sure we get it right. Plus because there’s a “private person” element to it too that makes it particularly egregious ).

Quite frankly it’s just yet another box she’s ticked off in the “what can I co-opt to make me the most money while garnering the maximum sympathy and attention, shutting down debate, questions (and SPITE throwing shade at people who have ever been MEAN to me)” Jack Monroe-Hadjicostas show.

At this point we’d be faster listing the things she hasn’t appropriated and seized upon for those reasons. Let’s not forget “My grandfather is DEAD!” was an early version of same.
Let’s take even more care than usual to be PAINSTAKINGLY FORENSIC about that one, because two different things often get conflated

THIS is not part of the baiting. This is the vile twit in December 2020 leaping opportunistically onto being GRAVELY ILL with long COVID.
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Her cancer baiting included her tweeting to ask for a “friendly oncologist” at a separate time in 2021.
Oh, also this, in the midst of the “great mass reveal” of 2022
More mither: to be vague as they’re deliberately private and tried to keep a distance from her. Someone adjacent to a branch of her family that’s tried to call her out in the past was receiving treatment for cancer at the same time as some of this baiting. None of those people would have wanted it exposed to jacks Glastonbury sized following. Grim. Again.
I can’t believe I got the dates right!

I wonder if there‘s some way we can do a Mastermind quiz for frauen? 🤣
 
Can anyone remind me which Wiki the Cancer-baiting stuff is on? I’ve been recruiting members of the Cable this afternoon at a bbq. Following a conversation about the latest successful attempt at baiting the working class against each other, conversation turned to people who will likely try and profit from all of this and of course, Mx Monroe came up.

To set the scene, mixed bag of ages ranging from mid 20s-50s, varying backgrounds. Across the board, people vaguely aware of her, believe her to be an anti poverty campaigner or similar. Let me tell you; I felt like Taylor Swift on stage with my impassioned telling the story of Jack. Most are appalled and can’t quite believe the level of it. What was also interesting is the same level of basic misunderstanding of poverty and its associated issues. That’s not to say it was everyone or that I’m doing a Jack like I’m an expert but I’ve lived experience as did a couple of others who side eye-d at a couple of comments made by the group. I’ve also worked in a field that’s allowed me to work with those still living that experience in many ways. I guess my point is that Jack’s arguments are the very basic arguments similar to the average semi-pissed up Brit who get a combination of their news from MailOnline and the BBC. Not very deep or thought out is the best way to describe it. Lots of “well cut your cloth accordingly” bordering dangerously close to suggesting making egg rings out of cans kind of arguments flying about.

I actually wouldn’t be arsed if Jack wanted to pretend to have experienced poverty, DV, addictions etc if she did it well. I’d prefer it so people like myself don’t have to because, mostly, survivors don’t want to keep talking about it. We don’t want to be defined by it, there’s a lot of shame etc. So if she did it well or it was real, fine. But she doesn’t, she plays into stereotypes, she talks about serious issues in what I can only describe as a very “Jacqueline Wilson” way. One thing I’ve noticed for someone who apparently has the worst mental health known to man, there are very few talks of sectioning or if there are hints, very few details which is unusual for Jack no? Almost like she doesn’t know…. For someone who is such a pioneering campaigner, a brave open book, she’s never talked about the social services involvement she must have had if even half of what she claims of true. It’s all just bollocks. It’s makes me really upset because as much as it’s disgusting the way she Grifts for money, she’s also seriously damaging the credibility and progress of serious issues.

I am absolute sick of people with platforms spouting basic, boring and dangerous narratives.
Just seen your post with the original question. Maybe best to direct them to read the wiki, let them recruit themselves? Plenty of evidence in there (with sources) of why she’s so problematic without specifically seeking out one topic over the past decade.

Different parts of ~waves arm around, tries to find a descriptor~ The Story of Jack Monroe separately brought us all here, and keep us here. The Wiki is full of it and @witchofwestbyfleet has done amazing work in writing and organizing the later pages. ❤️ there’s more than enough there for someone to make up their mind about Jack Monroe-Hadjicostas
 
That’s the one. She implied a perfectly normal X-ray was a huge cause for concern.
If memory serves, she couldn’t wash herself without agonising pain and could barely lift a spoon of slop to her mouth. This I’m sure was a strategy to claim disability. A little while later a miracle occurred and she was dying her hair with boxes of hair dye she found under the stairs and packing up boxes for days on end to move to her forever home. Excuse inaccuracies - I’m claiming lie-overload processing issues.
 
I’ve just realised all her baiting is concrete evidence that she has no friends.

By the time I was her age, I‘d lost friends through AIDS, accidental overdose and finding life too hard. I didn’t lose a close friend to cancer until my 40s but I had friends who had lost siblings and parents. I don’t think I’m unusual in any way.

Most people would never ever do any kind of baiting because they know how incredibly upsetting it would be for a friend to believe that another loved one has the same illness that they’ve already lost one person to.

But she has no friends who’ve lost anyone dear to them because she has no friends.
 
I’d say yours looks as nice as could be expected, squig.
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And I suppose that cheeky lil like will mean you’ve recruited one of your friends to the world of the Tin Cant Cook
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Oh.
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🤣 It is a salty, lethally scalding disgusting oily bleeping nightmare and guest’s original looks bleeping foul (and is accompanied by alluring language too). Intrepid @dickanddom slopalonged it here.
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Plus it’s yet another recipe she nicked it from Nigella and (obviously) ruined while scampering about playing toy kitchens in Leggy’s big London townhouse cos she was an adorable pixie who’d “given up her oven for lent”
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the original
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VOM. 🤢


Even so, nobody’s version looks like 🧦 “squig’s”. That looks like someone who’s bunged up with pasta has been (REALLY FOUL)
given a Caramac and Cod Liver Oil enema and directed to squit forcefully into a mug.
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She's only interested in someone when they can either top up her bank balance, shag her or get her a wider audience. Beyond that, she's not bothered and it's quite telling.
Weirder still rather than spending her time nurturing meaningful friendships she spends her time making up imaginary friends who take candids, laugh uncontrollably with her, comment on her perkiness and give her cutesy nicknames
 
In Celery Town earlier this week there was an interesting talk which tangentially took into consideration lived experience of poverty and the people who make money from it. I found it really interesting how the speaker (who is problematic in his own way) walked a line of 'people who know what exploitation looks like are sick of pointing it out', vs 'people who can't spot it won't believe me if I point it out'. Content warning: some very distressing content, first person accounts of traumatic experiences. More than an hour long, infuriating in parts.
 
The other week I was at a thing about another thing it's ultimate aim was access for deprived areas of the borough. Not one single person from any of those areas was in attendance or represented in any way shape or form. Seen but not heard.

A bit like the teens that seem to be so easily soothed with Netflix and a Magnum.
I must try that combo on mine and see how far we get. Don't fancy my chances
 
I’ve just realised all her baiting is concrete evidence that she has no friends.

By the time I was her age, I‘d lost friends through AIDS, accidental overdose and finding life too hard. I didn’t lose a close friend to cancer until my 40s but I had friends who had lost siblings and parents. I don’t think I’m unusual in any way.

Most people would never ever do any kind of baiting because they know how incredibly upsetting it would be for a friend to believe that another loved one has the same illness that they’ve already lost one person to.

But she has no friends who’ve lost anyone dear to them because she has no friends.
She had “two friends in ICU” at the same time at one point that she used as a comeback/ point score. The outcome of these two mysterious friends visits to ICU at the same time (very unusual in itself) was never disclosed. Almost like it was *deep breath* lies.
 
She’s only ever been interested in shagging someone IF they can top up her bank balance, or get her a wider audience. Ideally both. Beyond that, she’s not bothered.

It’s mindblowing that since her very early 20s she’s only ever been in relationships with much older wealthier partners who have all been home owners.

Semi OT Have long thought that Chocco Dave, Ma Ev and Jack should be compelled to sit down in intensive therapy together and address decades of this shite privately.

Then maybe she can finally shut the duck up and duck off instead of acting out all over the internet and trammeling her innocent child, innocent animals, anyone unfortunate enough to become involved with her, well meaning people who send their hard earned money to her etc etc all, so she can act out whatever this histrionic thing that’s been ACTED OUT PUBLICLY FOR OVER A bleeping DECADE is.
Tbf Vali, she would also be interested in shagging someone if they could get her pregnant.
 
She had “two friends in ICU” at the same time at one point that she used as a comeback/ point score. The outcome of these two mysterious friends visits to ICU at the same time (very unusual in itself) was never disclosed. Almost like it was *deep breath* lies.

IIRC she later, in her usual sensitive and measured manner, said that one had "topped himself" which was verified by a frau who knew them (?). This was during the Potatopocalypse I think.

As for the eventual fate of the other friend, whofuckingknows.jpg
 
If memory serves, she couldn’t wash herself without agonising pain and could barely lift a spoon of slop to her mouth. This I’m sure was a strategy to claim disability. A little while later a miracle occurred and she was dying her hair with boxes of hair dye she found under the stairs and packing up boxes for days on end to move to her forever home. Excuse inaccuracies - I’m claiming lie-overload processing issues.
I think it was a few days after that fake
‘can hardly lift a spoon to shove in my slops’ questionnaire that she went to some event with big lin and there were photos with her punching the air. Must have been so paintful for her, but she soldiers on
 
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