This needs to be paralleled with the story of Caroline Criado-Perez, who campaigned to get a woman to replace Winston Churchill on the ten-pound note. After it was announced that Jane Austen will be on the ten-pound note, Criado-Perez received "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours."
This sort of abuse isn't limited to creative people. It's endemic. Make a stand on something, anything, and you run the risk of having people say they're going to rape you, your family, and your dog. It's really quite horrible. Luckily for Criado-Perez Manchester police arrested a 21-year old man on "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours." Lucky for her, but unfortunately there's an entire sea of horrible people out there to sling the shit.
The £10 note had Florence Nightingale, Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, and it is soon to have Jane Austen. I can understand "I don't like her books" but that's not part of the criteria.
This sort of abuse isn't limited to creative people. It's endemic. Make a stand on something, anything, and you run the risk of having people say they're going to rape you, your family, and your dog. It's really quite horrible. Luckily for Criado-Perez Manchester police arrested a 21-year old man on "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours." Lucky for her, but unfortunately there's an entire sea of horrible people out there to sling the shit.