RE: https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/117293286147116143
When I ought to be doing "other things", I find myself reading Mary Beard. I ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Mary Beard and detest the people (men) who attempt to pillory her (or who threaten to do far far worse). I don't repent having taken time out of my morning to read her views on the silencing of women. Not for one minute!
to anyone who says that people who don't like being mansplained to, etc. "don't know how social media work", i invite you to read this essay on how public speech and comment "work" to silence women
"My aim here – and I acknowledge the irony of my being given the space to address the subject – is to take a long view, a very long view, on the culturally awkward relationship between the voice of women and the public sphere of speech-making, debate and comment"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n06/mary-beard/the-public-voice-of-women
