What on earth is wrong with some people?
"Olfactory Ethics, The politics of smell in modern and contemporary prose"
Not something I'd normally be interested in but anyone around social media in the last week might have seen how Ally Louks posting a picture of her bound PhD thesis being submitted after her viva (no corrections BTW which is some achievement) on X created a "stream of vitriol".
"It's definitely been overwhelming and an unusual week for someone who is typically a bookish introvert who doesn't really like attention but I feel quite unfazed by the vitriol," she said about the events, which were first reported by the Daily Mail.
"I was receiving a lot of rape threats, even death threats, but also there were just a lot of people forcing their views about what a woman ought to be or do on me which were entirely beside the point."
...
Dr Louks said: "I don't want to stoop to their level, I don't think it's useful.
"I'm open to criticism, provided it is based in reality and I think it's important to be an example for people because although I never wanted to go viral, I do now have a platform at least for a little bit and I think it's important to show people that we don't have to be this way."
A Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman said: “We have received a report of a hate incident, namely a threatening email, which was sent to a woman at 22.47 GMT on 1 December following a social media post about her completion of a PhD.
What's the world come to when someone submitting an obscure literary PhD is subject to rape and death threats?
Not something I'd normally be interested in but anyone around social media in the last week might have seen how Ally Louks posting a picture of her bound PhD thesis being submitted after her viva (no corrections BTW which is some achievement) on X created a "stream of vitriol".
"It's definitely been overwhelming and an unusual week for someone who is typically a bookish introvert who doesn't really like attention but I feel quite unfazed by the vitriol," she said about the events, which were first reported by the Daily Mail.
"I was receiving a lot of rape threats, even death threats, but also there were just a lot of people forcing their views about what a woman ought to be or do on me which were entirely beside the point."
...
Dr Louks said: "I don't want to stoop to their level, I don't think it's useful.
"I'm open to criticism, provided it is based in reality and I think it's important to be an example for people because although I never wanted to go viral, I do now have a platform at least for a little bit and I think it's important to show people that we don't have to be this way."
A Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman said: “We have received a report of a hate incident, namely a threatening email, which was sent to a woman at 22.47 GMT on 1 December following a social media post about her completion of a PhD.
What's the world come to when someone submitting an obscure literary PhD is subject to rape and death threats?
