"We had to burn the village in order to save it."

Apparently "The Mary Sue" was behind the campaign to harass EL James. 1 Jul 2015 03:00:21 UTC http://www.themarysue.com/ask-el-james/


Source: http://www.stopthegrbullies.com/2015/06/30/bully-envy-jenny-trout-and-mary-sue/

They organised a flooding of the #AskELJames tag with abuse, and when it is pointed out, simply deflect by claiming they are asking 'questions' along the line of "when did you stop beating your wife?"

I noticed most of the people tweeting at her had no idea what was actually

in the books except it was muh soggy knee...

Feminism. Harassing middle aged women online as a part of their campaign to stop the harassment of women online.



About the only way I can imagine her books resulting in a death is if they fell on top of someone...

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Here's Mundane Matt's perspective - he also finds it funny that they scream about harassment - then get together and do it themselves. Apparently the activity is called "brigading"? Huh.