At the risk of a dogpile, I am just gonna say here that entitling a book “Lie Back and Think of England” is a sure-fire way to get people to question your sense of humour AND your feelings about rape and consent— & maybe draw conclusions you don’t like. Glass houses, motes, pot
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Replying to @ADMedievalist
I can’t imagine why someone would call a book this. It gives the impression that the author doesn’t like women, and/or thinks that there is something amusing about rape. Even if these things aren’t actually the case, this title makes it sound like they are.
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Replying to @HFoxhallForbes @ADMedievalist
Subtweeting a junior gay male scholar with implications like this is a) tapping into homophobic stereotypes that paint gay men as perverts, predators and misogynists, and b) the sort of thing anyone paying attention lately should have come to expect from both of you.
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Did all of you also tell this to Kathryn Gradval of Ravishing Maidens. The foundational book about medieval rape culture. Or Carissa Harris for calling her book Obscene Pedagogies? Or do neither of you have a clue about the critical work being down in medieval rape culture.
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