Classicist Mary Beard's extraordinary 2014 essay "The Public Voice of Women" from the @lrb.co.uk makes it clear that the desire to silence women goes back to Homer, and never stopped, and that can connect the Tates and these meltdown boys. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
Public speech was a – if not the – defining attribute of maleness. A woman speaking in public was, in most...
