Thanks
Though you might want to check with the Trussell Trust and others, who seem a bit confused about some of her endeavours. I mean, I think it's OK to say you distributed the money to charities who 'want to stay out of the limelight' because that's exactly what charities want to do. No publicity for us!
What does St Jack earn, btw, in between her periodic bouts of poverty? It's fine, I don't care that she undoubtedly has a six-figure income, but she's still asking for handouts now, check her blog, her Patreon page, etc. To be fair, she found time among all her other illnesses (honestly, she's a walking medical textbook) to catch autism which means she literally can't lie. It all seems a bit performative.
[citation needed]
And kindly take your "catch autism" elsewhere. You should know that it takes decades to get an autism diagnosis if you are brought up as a woman. It took me over 15 years to jump through the hoops to get my diagnosis, and that's with jumping ship to a different country with working healthcare.
Your bigotry here is just embarrassing you.
J
Because she has an extraordinary (and expanding) constellation of illnesses that crop up everything time she faces criticism.
Oh fuck it, it's performative poverty, she's from an upper-middle class background, with supportive parents and partners, she has tv shows, books, celebrity endorsements and like, and she's still claiming she can't afford shower gel and unscrew lightbulbs (July 2022). It's all a theatre of me.
It's absolutely fine for her to do well, to acknowledge that, and continue to campaign. Marcus Rashford, Jamie Oliver, and many others have done just that. I actually come from a working-class family, my father was unemployed for most of my teenage years, I know what was on the menu in the few days before the next giro, I know what it was like to stand in the line of shame for the school dinner tokens. I've done that shit, it wasn't a performance, and I don't go pretending to be working class and poor now, because I'm not. Too many people don't get this choice. I think I've been clear where I stand on that.
There's an interesting read
here, and considering how litigious Jack Monroe is, she's yet to call on her expert team of paralegals (which she definitely has, because otherwise she'd be lying, and remember she can't because autism). I realise she's beatified now. I don't, to be honest, think she's a grifter, just that she is disorganized and attention-seeking. Whether the ends justify the means, I leave as an exercise for the reader.