No perky call to arms for the modern feminist
Threatened with rape for campaigning for feminism, journalist Caroline Criado-Perez has the last word
When journalist Caroline Criado-Perez got involved in a campaign to make women more visible on British banknotes in 2013, little did she know what would follow. The campaign's efforts paid off, and Jane Austen will appear on the £10 banknote by 2017.
"But… the men of Twitter had other plans for me," she writes. "The day after the decision was announced, I received my first rape threat. And then another, and another. I was just a woman alone in her flat watching these threats roll in."
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