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Rather shocked that a woman sent these messages

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JacqueslePeacock · 07/01/2014 22:35

I've just read that two people pleaded guilty to sending threatening, misogynistic messages to Caroline Criado-Perez in protest at her campaign to put a woman on our banknotes. (Guardian article here) I probably shouldn't be shocked, but couldn't help feeling a bit incredulous that one of the two was a young woman.

(It seems the Guardian couldn't quite get its head around it either, as the article refers to the woman's messages as "his" in paragraph 3!)

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JacqueslePeacock · 07/01/2014 22:38

I mean, I'm aware that women can be threatening and abusive and all, but sending rape threats to a woman who wanted your own half of humanity represented on a bloody bank note....my mind boggles. I feel quite sad about the whole thing.

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Geckos48 · 07/01/2014 22:37

Yes I was shocked when I heard on the radio that one was female.