Jack Monroe interview on poverty, gender and Katie Hopkins | Unfiltered with James O’Brien #19

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In 2012, at the end of their tether, Jack Monroe wrote a blog detailing the depths of the bitter poverty they had fallen into. After going viral, the post catapulted Jack from the brink of despair and into the spotlight.
In a raw and exploratory interview, Jack takes James O’Brien through struggling to making ends meet, the realities of austerity in Britain, identifying as a non-binary and preferring the pronoun ‘they’, and their legal battle with Katie Hopkins. | JOE.co.uk
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[@jamesw2414]

Ooh, might be interesting to read Just Pikachoo's forthcoming investigation into Jack Monroe!

[@chrismitchell7801]

At 26.55 the real question is asked! Apparently he's a brilliant man - has a 'job and a life' and has been around for 50/50 childcare. So why does Jack allow her and her son to sink to such depths of poverty and blame the system? Ring this brilliant man up and ask for a fiver a day to help purchase some food! This 'bitter poverty' story doesn't make sense.

[@kevinrogers2949]

Does not really make sense if he is also a best friend.

[@Victoria-iu5sb]

It makes even less sense when you learn that her wealthy, supportive parents lived around the corner. As did her millionaire grandad. Her whole backstory is fake, she’s nothing more than a cluster B grifter.

[@magdalenerose924]

This is so contradictory. It’s a very old-fashioned idea that women are ‘feminine’ & men are ‘masculine’. For a long time now, that’s been viewed as a sexist, regressive attitude, and I completely agree with JM about the princess dress. I used to work with young children & met plenty of little boys who loved dressing-up in fairy dresses and sparkles. I think that’s fantastic. Of course a boy can wear princess dresses if he wants to. So why does JM feel that she’s ‘different’ to everyone else? She says it’s because she considers herself quite ‘masculine’, and that this is the logic behind ‘being trans’. How is it ridiculous to make a fuss about a boy doing something supposedly ‘feminine’, like wearing a dress… but logical to make a fuss about a woman having what she describes as ‘masculine’ mannerisms or clothes? Makes no sense.

[@shh_you_are_wrong]

I gave up the minute she started ranting about pronouns. Why do people feel the need to make these childish self identifications?

[@autismdad5934]

Fake narrative

[@jmontgomery1178]

Sorry, I got stuck with single mum, no job, complains about slow government handouts--which is money taken from other working people through taxes.

[@annaal7480]

I appreciate and believe what she is saying but don't understand this hunger/poverty thing. Would love to know how long was it? Why was it so bad with both parents working? Why children had to work 12 miles back home? Didn't their parents have any friends who could collect the children? All this when children were in grammar school? I am sorry but it doesn't make much sense. It is from me, the person who knows what it is living in poverty in a new country, without family or friends and knowing language well. We used to go to markets before their closed and pick slightly rotten fruit and veggies that vendors were throwing away. I must say that what she says about poverty doesn't make much sense to me, the person who knew it and doesn't talk much about it.

[@johnwright9372]

Why don't you listen? Why don't you try helping someone else instead of knocking others?

[@stuartbritton7408]

What disgusting people these fraudsters are. I don't doubt there are people who respect this type of thing. That's why this once free country has become demoralised so quickly.

[@738polarbear]

So ,by her own admission she is a single mum but does not identify as a woman .Clearly a very confused person .

[@keramiroberts6695]

738polarbear and?

[@sjaelfre]

Only for small minds

[@Patrick-jj5nh]

57:39 isn't that worse than a genuine ignorant ideologue though? I'd rather argue with somebody who I know is simply lacking knowledge and experience to come to a more informed understanding or opinion than a fraud who has built up a 'persona' (read LIE) to appeal to the worst impulse in other people simply for financial gain. It's quite despicable really, and I'd say mentally and physically unhealthy and unsustainable, to live such a lie in the long-term.

[@Patrick-jj5nh]

also, is it piers morgan?

[@lee-annebarrett366]

How did she afford all those tattoos and how did she afford the time to sit and have them all done if she is so hard up, limited money, single parent with limited money. Pretty poor choice of spending her money if she is so poor. Opinionated as well.

[@theliamcooke]

This was her past, she has since made a decent amount of money with book/TV deals etc.

[@peanutbutterbruv]

She worked for years in the fireservice, and during that time she got tattoos. A few years later, the local childcare center closed and she was unable to continue that job. While living poverty, she was unable to sell her skin as if it were a watch or a car so still has the tattoos.

[@scarol17]

I'm confused, she said she's a single mother bringing up a child with the father of the child... That's not what a Single mother is, as far as I know.

[@carolineatherton8723]

She lives on her own. He does not live with her. Hence a single parent.

[@ursamajor6546]

@@carolineatherton8723 Can't think why he wouldn't want to live with her/it 😂😂😂

[@scarol17]

Then why don't we call divorced mothers living alone 'single mothers'? Because the father (usually) provides child support/child care. 'Single parent' implies there's no or little child support from the other parent. Also I believe she said she's with her girlfriend, so she's not single.

[@Victoria-iu5sb]

Lol her sons dad is actually the primary parent. She’s a part time mum pretending to be hard up single mum as a grift

[@jccusell]

I was just curious what profound examples from the past to present we can use when it comes to defeating poverty. So many countries lived in abject poverty just after WW2 and now flourish. Hong Kong comes to mind as a prime example. How is it that some peoples flourish, whilst others suffer? Knowing the answer to that question can truly help those in dire straits.

[@johnwright9372]

I have lived in Hong Kong for almost 40 years. You obviously think everyone there is doing well. 23% of the population lives in poverty. 80,000 families live in subdivided rathole flats. The minimum wage is just over £3 per hour, there is no universal pension and private residential property prices are the most inflated and unaffordable in the world.

[@eminem2]

How can people bring a child into the world when you have nothing? I know circumstances, etc. but at least you must acknowledge it's a mistake. I am one of those children. Not worth it.

[@allahspreadshate6486]

I don't think this woman ever attributes any REAL blame to herself, it doesn't fit with her 'poor me' world view.

[@chrismonks3133]

Enjoyed that. Identify very strongly with Jack's upbringing, was a good listen.

[@TheNadiabear]

Chris, me too, shocking as I am 20 years older than her and hoped we had come further. Phenomenal individual

[@jeremywestern7067]

Twat

[@tumblefatboy]

Jack you are valued you are appreciated and thanks for your blog. Cheers to you too James great interview

[@susannamarker2582]

JOB is far too biassed to interview anybody. Can't he shut up and let her talk ?

[@kevinrogers2949]

Very casual about how she brought a new life into the world.

[@andrewtrip8617]

Not really ,I suspect that is her reason for becoming active and engaged .

[@azaramoon4027]

Intelligence is in the soul, not the upbringing.

[@susannamarker2582]

Can't JOB shut up and let her talk ? He is also extremely biassed.

[@mazsroy9]

She's demanding others to fix her problems.

[@TomTom-df9ph]

Mary-Ann Roy Rubbish. Why would yo7 think that?

[@dimitrisblane6368]

Who doesnt turn off the hot water???

[@DP-tf7qb]

Well, not everyone has to, which not everyone understands. People with more, don't always comprehend what it is to have less, sadly.

[@beatselekta]

Why does the interviewer look like someone is forcing him to conduct this interview?

[@susannamarker2582]

He always does. JOB was born with some Victor Meldrum thing going on.

[@markjohn4802]

Utter crap, my friend is a school finance manager in a poor area in a failing school and she would be the first to see real poverty in relation to children. One single mum brings a huge packed lunch for her two chubby boys and yet she's entitled to free school meals. I have single mums on benefit living across from me, they look happy and bouncy. Benefits are universal, so "misery"should be the same regardless, living in a city or in a cosy village.

[@sarahconnor1932]

Hunger hurts, but tattoos do not, he/her has got about a grands worth on one forearm, another hypocrite, move along.

[@garrieleepeck8753]

Yes and she fucking earned now you stupid person ,

[@ursamajor6546]

Sarah Well said 👍👍👍

[@sodthelotayou3712]

What a fantastic woman.I wish this calibre of person was involved in our national politics

[@rahulkemp8347]

lol

[@andrewpalframan4666]

When was the last time you heard of a woman called Jack.?

[@davelewis8270]

Actually I grew up just up the road from Jack and I'm in the habit of shortening peoples names to one syllable so I know a few girls called Jack.

[@andrewpalframan4666]

@@davelewis8270 yeah,of course you do.

[@davelewis8270]

Not a good comeback from my smart arse comment. Have you had a heavy weekend?

[@Tom_murray89]

Saw her in Southend today

[@antonolufayo7804]

Why anyone choose the pictures they did for the thumbnail...what a cruel joke I like james, which is why this is in my feed i assume but, the thumbnail yells at me "Come hear 2 unappealing people have a conversation that no one is going to enjoy" And that seems british to me, being a canadian.

[@elenagisa1318]

a woman called jack, that's so stupid

[@pedrosevilla1976]

I never went to Starbucks and I'm not suicidal.....

[@rahulkemp8347]

I have ocd and i'm often suicidal......

[@sandymack9345]

Explains nothing and everything seperately and together

[@cmmndrblu]

the chromosomal variance being mentioned might be making reference to presence of absence of the SRY gene and whether the body responds or not to androgens.

[@daviniarobbins9298]

If the SRY gene part of the Y chromosome is missing the baby will grow as female. They don't find out until they get into their teenage years wondering why puberty hasn't happened yet.

[@munzarinkhan804]

I'm sorry but who is this woman?

[@Screamifyoumeanit]

"I don't even know who I am"

[@stephaniemadden7344]

Who was the man, Jack was talking abput at the end of the interview? Enquiring minds want to know.

[@ursamajor6546]

WHAT? YOU MADE IT TO THE END OF THE INTERVIEW!!!!?

[@belindablunderbus1365]

@@ursamajor6546 there's something wrong with you. I'm sorry.

[@keramiroberts6695]

Nice one. Don't be discouraged ☺

[@ursamajor6546]

I think someone jokingly told her that she had becoming less irritating and vomit inducing - so she wrote an article in defence of Diane Abbot!!!!! Seriously, check it out. You'll think it was written by a 10 year old.

[@allahspreadshate6486]

I just googled that 'article'. I'm two paragraphs in and that's as far as I can go. I know who wrote it, but who the fuck allowed it to be published. Are you sure it wasn't taken from the 'kids say the funniest things' section?

[@ursamajor6546]

@@allahspreadshate6486 Just had notification that you'd replied to my original message (4 months late!) Anyway, glad that you see what I mean. 👍👍

[@Sollatimer-Ed.southeast-]

What a lovely person Jack is. This is the type of person we need as PM someone who understands the real world.

[@krob2327]

She threatened the father of her son with loss of access rights if he ever went public about how their son, thanks to him, never went hungry. Jack spent her benefits on alcohol instead of food for her son

[@paulgduckworth]

She is a liar. I spent my teens and adult life in 'Southend on Sea', Essex. She WAS never in the situation she describes, my lesbian friends have a very different narrative about 'Jack'.

[@antielite5379]

Paul Abdul do tell....

[@cjones1499]

He's full of shit

[@krob2327]

It’s all very strange. The people who make it into the media. With family connections...

[@Commissar1898]

Please do share. More & more people are becoming aware that it’s a grift & a total con act from a spoilt rich kid who’s happy to take money off of vulnerable people on benefits while propping up & profiting from the austerity agenda

[@michaelp1999]

These smug, out of touch media luvvies are an embarrassment.

[@whitebeltforlife]

Such a beautiful person, inside and out.

[@shaunt7707]

She defeated Hopkins by TKO. Give her a Knighthood

[@pfmrokman]

Sometimes I think people accidentally say something profound... 4:41 "I was at the end of my tether"... I understand it's a 'figure of speech'... but... Def:"tie (an animal) with a rope or chain so as to restrict its movement." I can't help but wonder is she still feels a 'tether' now that she's more (or totally IDK) independent? Social welfare is supposed to 'free' you to pursue a better future for yourself and any dependants...

[@lisahodges8299]

I am so pleased that gender issues are talked about now, I grew up being afraid to be a woman because the set perception of woman was not something that allowed for being your self. Birdy

[@shh_you_are_wrong]

What perceptions? Who is espousing them? When did this happen? Where can we find out more?

[@TheNadiabear]

Powerful interview- my philosophy too around 50mins . JackMonroe is now one of role models for today. .Thank you for posting

[@millwallholdings]

Yeah great role model, kid out of wedlock and poncing on benefits great role model

[@rahulkemp8347]

sorry i have only managed up to 17 min of this garbage dont think I can carry on.....

[@finnpeters7867]

Rahul Kemp garbage?

[@NightmareMan83]

Agreed

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

Tata motherfucker

[@kr050]

You give us an hour about your life and we'll compare

[@allahspreadshate6486]

@@finnpeters7867 - Yes, garbage. I'm 10 minutes in and she hasn't actually said anything original or even interesting. What actually is her point, other than 'I'm just so reasonable...'

[@andrewpalframan4666]

Another attention seeker.It's a man by the way not a woman.

[@allahspreadshate6486]

Apparently that's what we have to call her... Personally, I refer to her as 'fuck off'.

[@hanumaniam]

A good example of what sarfend can produce. Wonderful interview

[@susannamarker2582]

It's 'saffend' innit ?

[@retroblak]

God interview with jack 🎓🎯

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[@Sarah-ft8jr]

She looks like lily Allen with short hair.

[@belindablunderbus1365]

What an absolute pleasure to watch. It's uplifting to remember there are good and kind people in the world.

[@MaximilianvonPinneberg]

So enlightening.

[@jeffsimon9594]

Loving the sarcasm

[@DJMavis]

Jesus, I have something in my eye. Ooof.

[@lennywebb6740]

She reminds me of Jack Wild.

[@eternalvalo674]

First

[@joewakeford]

Another great one James! And I have a new crush.

[@millwallholdings]

You must be hard up mate

[@danzel1157]

Joe Wakeford. I totally understand that, Joe.

[@mytayube]

millwallholdings you must be a Millwall stereotype

[@chriswainwright185]

Yes James is gorgeous 😍

[@jeffsimon9594]

@@chriswainwright185 A gorgeous face for radio 🤩

[@CarlyWaarly]

Jack is fabulous and refreshing, good for her!

[@johnwheeler2040]

Jack love you so good for people

[@patrickjohnstaunton1539]

Whilst I'm always interested in the opinions of others, not withstanding my own. The idea that gender specific constructs have been normalised as such is something of a puzzle to me. The scribes spoke of genetics in terms as we all know as adam/Eve etc, though species procreation be the mantra. I, as a simpleton then, am of the rather simplistic conclusion, woman and or man, should and can be with in any context any consenting human of there choice. Simples

[@cmmndrblu]

Jack Monroe seems to be making perfectly logical deductions. Gender in so far as the social ascription of roles on the basis of sex, is certainly socially constructed- however, some of the traits assigned, are based on the average differences created by sex hormones (aggression horniness physical strength and testosterone for example)

[@susannamarker2582]

A man become a woman ? Really ?

[@magdalenerose924]

How is it logical to say, “Of course boys can wear feminine clothes, think nothing of it, it’s just clothes!” …then say, “I’m a woman who likes masculine clothes or has masculine traits, therefore I am different & need a special label!” ? Can you not see how regressive it is, to say that a girl who likes ‘masculine’ things is somehow a boy?

[@diannedogwalker8935]

I think Jack is fantastic, giving kindness to people who have been mean to her shows an incredibly inspiring,generous person. By all means we can disagree with each other and to show kindness, respect and concern is wonderful example to us all. Thanks Jack and Joe for giving Jack such a great platform .

[@ursamajor6546]

🤮

[@notch7139]

I had never hear of Jack Monroe until I heard her a few days ago on James o Bien show (Jan 2022). And Ive just watched the whole of this Jack is both an inspiration and thoroughly entertaining. Watch it, you wont be disappointed

[@Biggles2498]

I think she is a cutie !

[@jeffsimon9594]

You are an intellectual powerhouse, you are

[@Biggles2498]

@@jeffsimon9594 Well I still would shag her anyway.

[@theresawinder7403]

I do like her

[@breebw]

Jack Monroe advocating for how the poor should feed themselves is like Donald Trump doing same. Bonus, the are both men. I think.

[@dudewasmyname]

Waffle

[@sandymack9345]

Bird's eye potato

[@martinjay3570]

Riveting zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[@robblunden4433]

What is the point of an interview? Almost from the start the intellectual incoherence of her position becomes apparent, rooted around the mantra of 'social construction'. Despite this James leaves much of this unchallenged. Curious.

[@susannamarker2582]

He's the same, communist, but without the tattoos.

[@benemeff]

What a brilliant interview. Love Jack even more.

[@JOE_co_uk]

Cheers Ben, appreciated.

[@stuartbritton7408]

Is it a boy, a girl, a man or a woman? What is it? Will it be a type of being who will procreate and further the human family?

[@SeRoAnthem]

@@stuartbritton7408 What is wrong with you?

[@lisafenn4238]

for what it's worth Jack.... i think you are bloody brilliant!!! much love xxx

[@allahspreadshate6486]

Have you actually read anything she's written? Seriously, have a look at some of her opinion pieces. They're spectacularly bad.

[@lisafenn4238]

@@allahspreadshate6486 you have a different opinion to me. I resonate with the life that Jack has had... that doesn't make me wrong and you right. It just means we have a different opinion. Have a lovely day :o)

[@allahspreadshate6486]

@@lisafenn4238 - I genuinely hope you have a lovely day too, I just don't understand how people find her 'poor me, blame everyone else' attitude endearing. And yes, I've had my share of problems, homelessness, addiction etc. But I own my mistakes and their consequences...

[@lisafenn4238]

@@allahspreadshate6486 Jack has not played the sympathy card... she has just told what happened to her. It happens to many many people. What I admire about her is her resilience to cope and survive. Something I recognise in myself after surviving a near fatal, life changing brain injury in 2005. I never judge others because we never know the entire story. :o)

[@jeremywestern7067]

You spastic

[@freddiefuller8714]

Get Jack a slot on LBC

[@carolynwestlake2246]

Freddie Fuller cbrilliant idea! Lbc needs some more women on of a left wing persuasion.

[@alidee5448]

Indeed. Also Jack is actually relevant and informed. Unlike that bankster doing some crap 'man of the people' act, and all his veiled racism enabled by people's ignorance.

[@Patrick-jj5nh]

yes, fuck nick ferrari down the bin and get her in.

[@M15Guys]

She's got chewing gum stuck on her shoe

[@martinjay3570]

The most exciting part of this interview.

[@howardholt3764]

Interesting person but had to keep winding back to re-listen as Mr O'Brien continually interrupts before Jack completes a sentence. This annoying trait is demonstrated every day on his radio programme. Hope his wife continues to check him on this and hopefully his technique will improve.

[@Iazzaboyce]

I love a bird with ink on her arms and chewing gum stuck to the bottom of her docs

[@danzel1157]

lazzaboyce. "... ink on her arms and chewing gum stuck to the bottom of her docs." Bloody street poetry, that is.

[@antielite5379]

Nothing gets me more excited than a woman who has walked on a pavement with shoes on either

[@allahspreadshate6486]

@@antielite5379 - Come back when you find a sense of irony....

[@MARYANNE269]

@@allahspreadshate6486 lol You defending a comment against the person putting down a nice comment about the person you have been slagging off! 🤣😂🤣 Top one!

[@allahspreadshate6486]

@@MARYANNE269 - I've just re-read my comment. I have no idea what point I was making, or what my grievance even was... I was probably stoned.

[@kevinyoung7294]

Maybe a better idea to get a bit of cash or a job before getting pregnant then blaming the world for not giving you everything.

[@danzel1157]

Kevin Young. Maybe try not judging people quite so quickly?

[@gayninja4823]

Anthony Matthews, for someone on the bones of their arse,mabey not a good idea to spend lots of money on tattoos, money I'm contributing as a taxpayer,and that person is presumably wasting on self aggrandisement,instead of on her dependants, which I have no problem contributing to,so to your comment, about being judgemental, perhaps Kevin Young and myself have every right to be????

[@tbeau6663]

Top woman!

[@JOE_co_uk]

Agreed Trevor!

[@ursamajor6546]

Woman?

[@rahulkemp8347]

RUBBISH

[@barbanscombe3435]

what an amazing human. x

[@krob2327]

Jack spent her benefit money and her ex partners child maintenance on drugs and alcohol. She then lied to the papers to create the narrative it was the lack of benefits thst left her child hungry. She’s also threatened the father of her child if he ever publicly told the truth

[@pippoplfc]

Brilliant interview.

[@krob2327]

The truth is better. Her sons father paid maintenance and for food whilst she spent it all on alcohol. She threatened him with denial of access if he went public with the truth.

[@brendanbutler1238]

Gender isn't separate from sex. Male and female culture is rooted in biology and is not purely created from our minds. If gender was separate from biology we wouldn't use the words masculine and feminine to describe gender. When we describe someones gender we aren't talking about their mannerisms or personality but their biological sex because biological sex is the basis or source of gender, not gender the source of biological sex.

[@alidee5448]

Actually society has moved on from that. Being the highly evolved and (mostly) intelligent primates that we are, we have a fantastic gift for abstraction. Therefore while sex is biological, and the basis for society's 2 primary gender definitions, we can also understand that many folk do not fall neatly (or at all) in to either. Most folk manage to accept people the way they are without worrying what bits and pieces they're carrying in their pants.

[@brendanbutler1238]

Most folk manage to accept that the bits and pieces they carry in their pants are what they are, no matter how much abstracting they do and no matter where society moves to.

[@Josh-ek8qq]

Actually that's wrong. One of the biggest additions that queer theory has made is the idea of sex, our sexual biology essentialising our gender. That as one person has a vagina, they are thus more effeminate, weaker, emotional or better suited to domesticated work, but in fact there is also the fact that what men and women were socially expected to do is what they were to become, because it was natural in their biology. In fact, people are not simply a man or a woman in a biological sense but also that they perform these expected roles that comes with possessing those gentials. Not everyone fits neatly into these binary (that is, man/woman, without any difference in between) categories of what is expected of them by society, because they are historically and socially constructed and influenced by power relations of who actually gets to define what is and isn't the right behaviour for a man or a woman. Being non-binary is thus saying that you may be sexually a female but you do not recognise that you find your gender identity through what is socially constructed in a way that is female. It is really interesting, I reccommend you read Gender Trouble by Judith Butler, or failing that the one-sex, two-sex theory. For a very long time in western tradition, men and women were not differentiated through sexual difference in the way we do today. Women's gentials were perceived as the same as men's just inverted and internal to the body, rather than biologically different. Since medicinal advances, claims for *inherent* biological difference between men and women were proposed and have been internalised as natural markers of difference and justification for the roles men and women have/had developed in the centuries previously. This is what people mean when they say gender is 'performative' for it isn't something that is dependent completely on nature but is nurtured through the dominant expectations of society for how we should behave.

[@brendanbutler1238]

Gender still comes from biology and is not purely a social or individual construct or performance. If it were people could say my gender is mod or rocker, or new romantic, ie something totally cultural and separate from biology, a peformance or cultural construct. Because gender comes from biological sex, and because biological sex is binary and fixed, then it is nonsensical for a person, or society to claim that someone is a different gender to their biology, no matter what their personality or culture is like.

[@Josh-ek8qq]

Gender, as you construct it, is constructed on a belief that sexual biology controls gender, but it has become clear that the binary of penis = male gender is restrictive. Being a mod or a rocker is a part of your identity which is what gender is. Being a mod is something you do by looking a certain way to outsiders. Just like being a woman is something you are biologically, by possessing a uterus, womb, breasts etc. But it is also something you are, by how you behave and are conditioned and expected to behave. Being a mod, you have to behave in a certain way otherwise you become outside of that group. Or you could enjoy dressing like a mod, be perceived as a mod, but not identify as a mod - It is simply the way you naturally enjoy dressing. Likewise if a woman doesn't act in a way that is perceived to be womanly, she is 'butch' or not behaving as she is expected. Gender theory seeks to liberate people from these associated expectations by accepting we are all not definitively within the category male or female, but also suggests these are categorically useless terms for *identity* and that the categories of what makes someone male or female is constantly being redefined and appropriated (refer to two-sex theory for most obvious example). Currently society defines gender biologically, Thus how we are expected to behave is determined through a paradigm of gender being based on our biological make-up. Yes, certain traits are determined by biology, but that doesn't mean that women can't do this job, or men are bound to be more likely to commit suicide. These issues reflect discrepancies between what we feel we are and identify as and what society tells us we should be like. Gender theory, queer theory, feminist theory etc., (indeed just the existence of non-binary or trans people) show that there are alternatives to these binaries of man/woman, gay/straight if we redefine how we categorise and hierarchise not only our language, but also our society. But doing that comes from accepting that social processes have a role in shaping our sexual identity and behaviour, rather than it being wholly biologically determined, an essentially unchanging thing. Deviation from the binaries to most people suggests abnormality or deficiency in individuals rather than a fault in our categorisation of people as either men/women .

[@Tiddybeth]

I adore Jack for so many reasons.

[@westonharley1580]

We need her in the House of Commons.

[@jakenevin25]

God in four years how my veiws have changed.

[@jocrow6235]

You’re great jack. Wish you’d been around when I was younger.

[@sandrawinterton9175]

I absolutely love Katie Hopkins! Much respect to her!

[@hughjanus900]

That ,more than anything shows how people can be taken in by someone that plays on fears for monetary gain .hopkins is pure evil,and looks more like a horse than anything;

[@johnwright9372]

Katie Hopkins is a deranged, ignorant, hateful troll. This says all anyone needs to know about you.

[@LightLife4]

What is it about her that you respect because there's plenty of people out there that have very little in the way of anything great to say about her.

[@paddylyons5659]

class person brill

[@ursamajor6546]

Can't make my mind up who's more irritating, her or Dianne Abbot??

[@jimwest7107]

Both trying to out virtue signal each other lol. O'Brien probably a shy Tory when you look at his life situation lol.

[@marctwinam-cauchi3488]

why are you so deliberately obtuse? Did someone hurt you?

[@pilch295]

HAHA; very funny!!!

[@millwallholdings]

Truth hurts she seems to not like the people who paid for kid, rent and food

[@danzel1157]

Jim West. Give one example of this 'virtue signalling' that you have been self taught to accuse every one with views to the left of Augusto Pinochet of?

[@susannamarker2582]

Just like Tony Blair then. Blair's dad was a Tory MP. At university, Blair was a marxist. Typical rebelling against father syndrome.

[@susannamarker2582]

Irish and greek ? No wonder she"s so pretty.

[@blackadder5837]

Really enjoyed that interview. A brilliant intelligent speaker is Jack.

[@sheilaroddick5853]

Super lady.

[@seamushasson6571]

This is my favorite one of these interviews yet. Jack is a really eloquent speaker.

[@maiqueashworth]

I really found this interesting. So impressed with Jack Monroe. Integrity., And a further insight into the press

[@davidhubball1603]

I'd Vote for her!

[@239Timmyg]

What a lovely person and a great interview.

[@paulhicks3595]

Living in Australia I was unaware of Jack and only discovered her yesterday while searching for budget meal ideas. Now I’m already a huge fan of this amazing woman. I think she’s one of Britain’s national treasures!

[@kathrynboniface3455]

Well done, Jack, keep fighting for us all.

[@andrewwalsh2755]

Impressive.

[@andrewwalsh2755]

... must disagree with her on spreadsheets though... can't stand 'em...

[@adha2913]

She's a national treasure.

[@krob2327]

She’s really not

[@LSA7X]

Is this woman trying to be a bloke? Or just butch?

[@muzzler24]

Jack Monroe identifies as non-binary in terms of gender, so neither.

[@LSA7X]

muzzler24 so a woman.

[@PatrickJConnor]

You could just listen to the first ten minutes rather than demonstrating your laziness or ignorance. Making value judgements on static images is what instagram is for, whereas this platform has a play button that make the pictures change often with noises that make it more informative.

[@Jamesp1972]

The valid, simple question is why do you bother?

[@ChadSlampiece]

She's not trying to be a bloke, or butch. She's just being herself, the way she feels comfortable. She's not deliberately styling herself to fit an ideology or agenda. This is just how she feels comfortable. Nothing more.

[@davidmann399]

Jack for number 10!!

[@barraqali336]

What a remarkable invidual!

[@eric-vu1jy]

HE IS A HE