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Mary Beard & Julia Gillard on the 10-year anniversary of the misogyny speech

A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard

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The Importance of Confidence in Misogyny

A. Gail has seen more than her fair share of negativity on social media. As a classicist, how do you look at that? Do you actually read these badly-spilt tweets and say to yourself, oh I can connect that with a view of misogyny from several thousand years ago? How do you think about that? You're someone who's obviously in the public eye, but not every classicist is routinely on TV or books. And I mean that has brought you all sorts of critiques. But I don't imagine I'm going to see it. So instead of microaggressions, we've got to have the microfics. Yes A.Gail bless him

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