ME:: gotta read Wilson's translations of Greek Classics that those jerks hate! Rebecca Solnit:: Listening to Cassandra: Misogyny, Classical and Modern

QUOTE: But it wasn't just style; there was a death-of-civilization-level panic as if Homer speaking through a woman, a woman speaking with the authority to take on a foundational classic, was annihilation for something or other. They insisted that she had done something to it she wasn't allowed to do and that somehow it was damaged as a result (one hysterical social media post made it sound like she was somehow destroying all other versions so we now and forever after could only read her version). A woman speaking could, in their ears, only be threatening. Beard writes, "For a start it doesn’t much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s not what you say that prompts it, it’s the fact you’re saying it."