Strident, whining, ignorant morons: Mary Beard on the female voice in the public realm
We reported last summer on the torrent of online abuse classicist and Cambridge don Mary Beard encountered after appearing on the British program Question Time, and how she responded: by… Read more »
The Cambridge Companion to Trolls: Mary Beard responds to offensive tweets
Meet Mary Beard, Cambridge classicist and troll slayer. She first found herself battling sexist trolls in January, after appearing on the BBC program Question Time and briefly addressing issues of immigration. When… Read more »
The Hatchet Job of the Year award: Shrimp for snark
The Hatchet Job of the Year award will, on 10th February, reward the writer of the most ‘entertaining’ book review of the past year with—wait for it—a year’s supply of… Read more »