Mary Beard’s battle with the trolls continues

 
22 August 2013

Here we go again. Classics professor Mary Beard was in the midst of another Twitter troll storm last night when she objected to a post by someone known as The ArchitectAlbertoLeonV1 saying: “Do you tuck your saggy tits into your socks?”.

Beard tweeted FranciscaLeon71, whom she assumed must be a relative, asking her to get him to remove the offending comment.

“@FranciscaLeon71 no blame here. But cd u ask him not to tweet this.”

An hour later, after others had joined the fray, Mary tweeted: “@AlbertoLeonV1 for heavens sake take tweet about my saggy tits down. I accept apology.” She later added “Sorry to come back. But this isn’t negotiation. Remove tweet, then negotiate.”

Another hour passed and Beard tried again: “This isn’t about misandry/revenge, but improper thoughtless abuse.”

The offensive tweeter then removed his comment. “He has taken the tweet down,” said Beard, “and sort of apologised. That is as far as I go.” And then Twitterland went off to bed ...

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