Mary Beard again

[sieglinde]

The hideous aspect of life in 2013 - not Beard, of course, but the right-wing misogyny of her tormentors....

Here is what she very bravely said:

timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2013/01/internet-fury.html#more

In a week where misogynists are sniffling over the demise of fat ugly stupid boring old Michael Winner, this reeks even more than usual.

seeker

Oh good. When's it going to be the men's turn?

Apparently you missed the opening post of this thread.

Yep. I missed Michael Winner's face being superimposed on a cock and balls, and the detailed discussion of his genitalia, pubic hair and sexual preferences.

Could you provide a link please?

Jesus wept, seeker. If you want to see men being abused on that website, why don't you just go and look on it? As Mary Beard herself points out in her article, they're being abusive about Andrew Marr.

But this isn't about the nature of the abuse, is it? It's a way of keeping score, so's you can say "Look at the evil menz, they are the worserer, we are so oppressed because of patriarchals".

The remarks about Andrew Marr have been taken down.

I repeat. Show me vile abuse of men of the type levelled at Mary Beard.

Repeat it all you like, it's still a stupid comment.

Why is it stupid? Are you saying that a man would be abused in the same way that Mary Beard was?

The remarks about Mary Beard have been taken down too.

Sorry, all, and especially Ellie - busy work day yesterday.

Glad seeker and in a way others saw the point of my remark about Winner - it was meant to provoke the discussion that's happened here. My point was just that male opiners are not held to the same standard of looks/youth as women in the public eye.

I didn't want to discuss immigration in Lincolnshire, because for me it wasn't the point; Beard could have said that aliens came from the earth's core and still wouldn't have deserved the hate-laden tirades she got.

And a man would NOT be abused in the SAME body-related terms as she was, though I take the point that these sites are generally for abuse of all kinds. I didn't know they existed, and I'm kinda sorry I do.