This morning bc of this Bad History Takes tweet I got a worried call from my dad.

My *father* got this last night from a stranger— who somehow found his #.

This is not an appropriate response for a tweet you think is historically inaccurate.

It just isn’t.

My dad isn’t online at all & doesn’t even know how to do screenshots, so he took a picture w my mom’s phone.

This is not an appropriate “punishment” for firing off a line from a book I was reading yesterday.

Again... it just isn’t.

I cited it yesterday. The book is Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner.

It’s an excellent book & her scholarship is fascinating.

That’s why I got excited & tweeted about it.

Update: Just got a call from my BROTHER. He was also harassed by a stranger last night bc of this tweet.

This is absolutely out of control & unacceptable by any standard.

Anything I can do Carrie Goldberg?

What is the appropriate entity to report this to?

Just checked my email & I got this yesterday from a stranger bc of all this.

People have been hounding me on all my other accounts (Instagram, Facebook).

They are so incredibly committed to harassing women who have opinions on the internet.

The level of hate is frightening.

I also highly recommend Jon Ronson's 'So You've Been Publicly Shamed' (yes, ANOTHER BOOK! 🙃) abt how people go absolutely batshit on Twitter.

'You're wrong about this historical fact' isn't enough— it's 'YOU ARE A WHORE AND YOU MUST DIE!'

Not ok. Ever.

youtu.be/P2dTdx4g8Kc

He's actually right.

This IS the real reason my tweet blew up:

Horsefly Sloop Just one of the many messages I received today:

Kate Kelly Horsefly Sloop Here we have the classic 'I got sent awful shit as a result of what I said, thus I am now the victim and cannot be criticized for anything that I said.' Very clever, haven't seen that one in a while