The Troll Slayer
Rebecca Mead profiles the Cambridge classicist Mary Beard, whose fight against misogyny has made her a feminist heroine.
"I'm going to cut off your head and rape it." — A tweet directed at Mary Beard, classicist. She mildly reported it in her lecture, part of a "predictable menu of rape, bombing, murder." It doesn't matter what line you take as a woman, she said. The abuse comes anyway.