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9 July 2012

Why are you feminists always complaining?

My response to Chris Dillow.

By Helen Lewis

Now, Chris Dillow is an interesting blogger, and one I read regularly. So I was a bit surprised to stumble upon this paragraph at the end of a post about economic research which might be interesting to feminists.

That “complaining about people being mentally ill” link went through to the piece I wrote on Friday about the incredible levels of hate dished out to blogger Anita Sarkeesian, which included having her Wikipedia page trashed, her personal information posted online, and a charming man creating a game where you could beat her up. 
 
A commenter called Susan challenged him about “belitting” feminists here, writing:
 
So I thought I should write him a quick letter. Here it goes:
 
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