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Peak Mansplain

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justicewomen · 05/12/2016 20:07

Today on Twitter Aaron Banks tried to tell Mary Beard he know more about the Fall of Rome than her because he studied it at school!

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PippaFawcett · 05/12/2016 20:11

Saw it! There is a #WithBeard hashtag started by JK Rowling!

amispartacus · 05/12/2016 20:19

Mary Beard is an expert. Who believes experts nowadays Hmm

OlennasWimple · 06/12/2016 02:31

Arf! We truly are living in a post-expert world

PoochSmooch · 06/12/2016 06:50

Mary popped up on here a couple of times, didn't she?

Love her!

I can imagine that she wet herself laughing at this.

girlwiththeflaxenhair · 06/12/2016 07:48

To be fair, not really sure this is mansplaining as he is the kind of twat who would tell a male or female expert they were wrong I suspect.

YokoUhOh · 06/12/2016 07:54

I bet Mary Beard is used to a bit of mansplaining but that takes the Biscuit

EvenTheWind · 06/12/2016 08:03

Go Mary!

Thecontentedcat · 06/12/2016 08:06

Who is Aaron Banks.

EvenTheWind · 06/12/2016 08:12

Major ukip donor

illegitimateMortificadospawn · 06/12/2016 08:17

I love Mary. Aaron Banks is a numpty.

illegitimateMortificadospawn · 06/12/2016 08:19

Although we do now have an objective benchmark against which to measure the level of delusion which keeps someone wealthy throwing money at a fringe loony party.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 06/12/2016 09:55

So what I am deducing from this is that Mary was following Banks in the first place to have seen his tweet.
If so she gets even more of my undying admiration, for using Twitter in a non-echo-chambery way.

booklooker · 06/12/2016 09:58

he knows more about the Fall of Rome than her because he studied it at school!

He was expelled from school according to Wiki

amispartacus · 06/12/2016 10:03

I would love to see him debate his views with her in more than 140 characters using historical sources, references, reasoned debate and counter debate etc.

I suspect he would come off second best.

Kidnapped · 06/12/2016 10:07

God, I thought that he just posted one ill-informed tweet. But no, a dozen of them. I particularly liked "I love gladiator always watch it with my son".

I'll bet Mary had a chuckle. I liked the way she just calmly handed him the rope.

This from The Huff.

PausingFlatly · 06/12/2016 10:15

No no, Banks has suspended donations to UKIP because they can't get their act together: Ukip could be about to die, warns its biggest donor Arron Banks

He's planning to buy himself 200 brand new MPs at the next election.

All for the public good, obvs. Hmm

amispartacus · 06/12/2016 10:16

Some people should just step back from Twitter. How arrogant have you got to be to not realise you might just be making a fool of yourself?

People should know what Twitter is like and how quickly people react. Then you become a meme.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 06/12/2016 10:25

TBH I think by the time he gets to Gladiator he has realised he is outclassed and is sending himself up.

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