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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Jane Austen promoter sexually abused on twitter


This is from The Telegraph


 
 

The background is appalling.  Caroline Criado-Perez (pictured), who lobbied to have Jane Austen on the £10 note, received threats from twitterers. A distressing amount of the abuse involved -- believe it or not! -- threats of rape.
 

2 comments:

Buck said...

Why are people so ghastly when 'anonymous'?

Martin Evans said...

It has worsened in the past couple of days: not only rape but bomb threats against her and her female supporters.

There is a good well-balanced comment in the weekend Financial Times, written by Helen Lewis who is an editor at the New Statesman. Her article is accessible online at:



The FT online page also includes comments from readers.

It has just been reported that Mary Beard, the Cambridge classics professor who has been presenting some TV programmes on ancient Rome, is now also receiving Twitter threats (again).

There is talk of some prominent women closing down their Twitter accounts.