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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTroll Slayer: A Cambridge classicist takes on her sexist detractors.
Finally, Beard arrived at the contemporary chorus of Twitter trolls and online commenters. The more Ive looked at the details of the threats and the insults that women are on the receiving end of, the more some of them seem to fit into the old patterns of prejudice and assumption that I have been talking about, she said. It doesnt much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. Its not what you say that prompts itits the fact that you are saying it. Such online interjections Shut up you bitch is a fairly common refrainoften contain threats of violence, a predictable menu of rape, bombing, murder, and so forth. She mildly reported one tweet that had been directed at her: Im going to cut off your head and rape it.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/troll-slayer
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)I do not do twitter or facebook. Social media is so negative, a waste of precious time, imo.
It is a pleasure to read articles like these from The New Yorker. It is a call to action.
niyad
(113,490 posts)niyad
(113,490 posts)they are not related.
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Warpy
(111,305 posts)If you haven't seen her videos on ancient Rome, pop over to You Tube and do so. They're much more interesting than "reality" TV.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I think I'm gonna like this. Hadn't known of her before.
Warpy
(111,305 posts)Instead of the dry facts of conquests, dates, and names of Emperors, she brings the dailiness of it to life, pointing out what "SPQR" was on and why it was there as well as things like the diet of all economic classes and social mobility that was commonplace.
Her take on Caligula is especially entertaining, not to mention meticulously researched. I also highly recommend the lecture on the misidentification of the emperors in sculpture and why so much of it has taken place.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I have a pile of books I jump around reading (well, the Internet addiction's really reduced my reading. erk.)
But one of them is Imperium. Forgot the author's name. But it's a historical novel about Cicero, told in the voice of his slave and scribe.
Warpy
(111,305 posts)and was surprised by how much I'd forgotten, like the "little fishes" Tiberius fancied in Suetonius.
While I'm sure of it was gossip by the have-nots against the stole-everythings, it's all fascinating. It's not my favorite period, but it's one I never tire of reading about.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Darn!
So much I wanna read! Or listen to audio...
I DID read A World Lit Only By Fire, quite awhile ago. About the Middle Ages. Loved that book--I should read it again. You might like it!
ProfessorPlum
(11,264 posts)I've really liked Robert Harris's books on Cicero, even though I think Cicero was a shit.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,128 posts)I hadn't noticed over the course of its run how clearly he made the women the most intelligent and hard working. And what dolts so many of the men with power were.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I didn't know about her.
Long live Troll Slayer!!!!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Solly Mack
(90,778 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)Once women figure out how to reproduce without us we're toast. In our defense I will point out that millions of years of evolution made us this way but I understand that women will just think we're not worth the bother of keeping us around.