Dear Mr Holloway
You invite members to feel sorry for Ms Curtis Taylor. She currently enjoys a hugely privileged lifestyle, swans around the country accepting a series of awards and accolades, has no need of what any of us would recognize as an actual "job" to fund any of this, has spent hundreds of thousands pounds flying through countries where people live on a dollar a day without ever, as far as one can tell, being moved to direct her considerable fund raising abilities to helping them in any tangible way and she threatens litigation if anyone ever points out any of her lies and misrepresentations. I think you are asking rather a lot of people.
You ask that people give her credit for some gutsy flying. People would have been more than happy to do exactly that. It was TCT herself who was not content with that. She wanted the status and celebrity and profile of a modern-day Amy Johnson. And she has achieved it. Nobody would ever have been any the wiser had not Jay smelled a rat and then pursued it. Can I suggest that in encouraging her pursuit of fame and status (rather than helping her see the role she has had in provoking justified criticism) you are not really doing her a service.
TCT has been blessed with striking good looks and is, by all accounts, very charming in person. This combination has been sufficient to separate many men in positions of power from their good judgement. Perhaps you should take this enforced hiatus and ask yourself if you might not be one of them.
She complains of misogyny. The great irony is that, were it not for her looks and feminine charms, nobody would ever have heard of her.
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