Jack Monroe again

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Has anyone seen the recent tweet about her pawning/selling three diamond engagement rings? Aibu to think if you are pleading poverty and asking the general public to donate money one week and then showing off pictures of three massive diamonds you own the next, it's never going to go down well? Especially when you are already being challenged on lying and grifting?

For a long time I thought JM was nothing but a force of a good but I can't understand how she can be so tone deaf. It can't be deliberate but equally how can she not realise how it looks to produce three huge rings just a week after claiming she's so skint she needs handouts.

Apologies if there's already a thread on this.

Reading on Twitter this morning, full of her fans doxxing W/c women who are daring to question saint Monroe and trying to line up the questioning of her behaviour = transphobic. It’s disgusting. Jack Monroe is disgusting enabling it.

Well they are not doing any trans people any favours by calling questioning on non trans person transphobic....

It totally took over my twitter feed which is slightly annoying because it's normally quite an ok and calm feed

I think people need to just back off now, the level of hate she is getting is extremely ugly. It could all end very badly.

Being challenged for her inconsistent posts, and called out for her direct lies isn't hateful. The more she posts the more people are going to question the narrative she is trying to portray, and if she doesn't like people asking questions then she needs to stop tweeting and take some time away from social media.

I think that level of hate should be an expected result of scamming people tbh... At this time most I see is talking about the lies around shopping and how harmful it is.

She’s posted about her interview on Radio 4 this morning (I didn’t listen) but again has turned off replies except for those she follows or mentions, who obviously are totally supportive of her … 🙄

(On Twitter)

This must be such a money maker situation with all the aupporters probably throwing in pounds to support poor bullied Jack.

I find it annoying that criticism is always equated to trolling. For me, trolling is messaging someone saying they're ugly or you want them to die.

Discussing a public influencer's behaviour/actions, particularly on a forum rather than on their feed or via direct message, isn't in that category. If you put yourself in the public eye, you can't expect everyone to like you. That's the cost of choosing to be an influencer.

Don't get me started on #bekind particularly when it's aimed at women who aren't allowed a critical opinion apparently.

Yes. there's a big difference between being critical of the message and personal attacks. Legitimate criticism being dismissed out of hand and labelled as hate is ridiculous.

At the same time, I do find some of what's going on very troubling, because I do think she's quite unstable.

At the same time, I do find some of what's going on very troubling, because I do think she's quite unstable

Yes, that is why I think people need to back off on Twitter. If she has done wrong, it needs be dealt with properly, not via a Twitter scrum.

I heard it. Very short and she sounded woefully underprepared to me. The other interviewee was much better
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bksz
Starts at 2:26:28

😂

Surely she will be doing pretty well from the cook books and various ‘celeb’ type work she does?

Questioning things is always said to be hate or trolling apparently, seems to me it's a way of shutting people down instead of answering them.

The thing is, it's only since viral Molly's tweet that people have felt able to question Jack. She vanity searches her name on Twitter and signposts her flying monkey's towards anyones who dares slightly criticise her. A journalist asked her a perfectly reasonable question the other day and then retweeted the abuse he was getting from Jack's followers.

If Jack isn't liking what's happening atm, she needs to delete or private her account, something she's forced a number of other people to do over the years. The very least she should do is put down her bloody phone but she won't, because despite all the crap she peddles about working 100 hours a week, she does nothing else but tweet all week.

Yes, but who and how is it going to be dealt with properly?

She does her best to shut down any criticism, and the critical newspaper articles there have been don't seem to have dented her. I mean there was what she said about David Cameron's disabled son and some about her not actually being poor years ago as well, but she's still trucking along. I guess she's not got a regular slot on telly, but I think that's because she doesn't actually perform that well.

(Which reminds me, when she said she was offered tv work but turned it all down, she has said that the reason was it was all unpaid. Can pilots for tv cookery series really be unpaid?)

I reckon she's useful to the media in lots of ways.

I don’t like her bit what she said about David Cameron was true.

The monkeys are working hard on upping unemployment levels😳

What does she actually do to help poor people?

Show me any evidence of her:

• pointing people to sources of advice and help
• sharing useful content
• raising up the voices of people living in poverty

She posts pictures of shopping baskets which she says feed 2 people 3 meals for a week for £18. Then people challenge her on that, saying that basket isn't enough food and there's virtually no protein or fats.

Ah, she replies, that's not all the food I have! Of course I have a cupboard and fridge and freezer also full of stuff. Don't be so stupid.

Then when people say 'err but that's what you said in your basket photo' her and her rabid followers scream and attack until they back down and never challenge her again because it's horrible.

And then she complains she's relentlessly targeted.

Tell me again how this helps people struggling to pay bills.

She seems to have been tweeting almost continually for 2 days with virtually no break. There’s some very strange tweeting in the middle of it, deleted I think now.
she needs an intervention.

Please expand on this because IIRC she said that losing their son was easier for the Cameron's because they're rich.

Which is disgusting. I'm no Tory and certainly not a fan of Cameron but no parent should outlive a child and bank balances do not cushion the grief.

The David Cameron tweet was more of her narcissist behavior and it cost her a job.

I remember seeing her on some program must be 10 years back and she makes it all about her, she doesn't really care about the poor, she only cares about poor jack.

I thought she said that he used stories about the NHS care his son received as a shield against criticism that he was seriously damaging the NHS. It’s not the only time he’s been accused of using the personal for the political.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-exploits-his-disabled-son-says-hewitt-6112467.html

I was awake early today and was quite surprised to see her tweeting that she's busy having sex with a new boyfriend. I know she'd been suggesting it obliquely, hence my PP - but to say it outright? And she said her child is also around this man already?

That's dangerously inappropriate on so many levels.