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queer medievalist researching the global origins of ideas about sex/race in medieval English lit. helicopter parent to a kitty. phd. (he/him). views my own.

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    Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

    So it's come to my attention that Prof. Guy Halsall (@Real_HistoryGuy) is making repeated claims that I think "rape is funny." A colleague posted screenshots yesterday of Halsall making this claim, calling me a "Grade A imbecile," and mocking various twitter threads of mine. 1/15pic.twitter.com/Nz7WVhUlMX

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      2. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        Let me start by saying that I do not in any way believe that I am free from the influence of rape culture or that I cannot make mistakes. And, indeed, I welcome feedback on the title (and on my web presence generally). 3/15

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      3. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        HOWEVER, over the last two years, the title has not been brought to my attention as a problem at all until *after* I criticized Halsall. I criticized Halsall for calling grad students by a slur referring to women's genitals. 4/15

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      4. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        These students were advocating for antiracist work & for ISXX to address its endemic problems of sexual harassment. I also questioned whether his bullying of them might mean that his partner was the wrong board member to draft the sexual harassment policy we had called for. 5/15

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      5. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        Since then, I was first harassed by a sock puppet account about the book title (one followed only by Halsall & his friends), then this claim was repeated in the FB group dedicated to mocking me and Dr. MRO, & now I've discovered that Halsall has been repeating it to his friends.

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      6. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        The book in question is an examination of the relationship between nationalist politics and sexual politics, particularly rape culture, in early medieval England. Half of the book's chapters are dedicated to an analysis of rape culture and its effects on both men and women. 7/15

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      7. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        The title, "Lie Back and Think of England: Sexuality, Race, and National Identity in Early Medieval English Literature," is intended to suggest the ties between contemporary and medieval nationalist rape culture. 8/15

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      8. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        Again, I do not think I am immune from the effects of rape culture or its internalization, but I do not think rape is funny and have never wished to imply so. I study rape culture and take it very seriously. 9/15

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      9. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        I have experienced rape culture and the blurring of consent lines myself in queer male spaces. It is a pervasive problem. 10/15

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      10. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        Nonetheless, I do think that the timing of these attacks suggests what some feminists call DARVO--the reaction of those called out on wrong doing and bullying: Deny, Attack, And Reverse Victim and Offender. 11/15 https://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/defineDARVO.html ……

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      11. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        It is, furthermore, striking both that these accusations are being made by senior tenured medievalists about a junior scholar and that they are directed at a queer scholar. 12/15

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      12. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        The implication that a queer man might think sexual assault is funny--& might not view consent as serious--aligns with a long history of homophobic depictions of queer men as sexual perverts and predators. 13/15

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      13. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        I think that calling someone out on their perpetuation of rape culture is a legitimate and important exercise, however none of these people has addressed me directly. Halsall himself has me blocked and has been repeating these claims behind a locked account. 14/15

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      14. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 26 Nov 2019

        The intent here seems to me not to be to correct my mistakes but to defame me, in order to draw attention away from the criticisms of Halsall's bullying that a WOC made yesterday. 15/15

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