Caroline Criado-Perez: Female Presence On Banknotes
Criado-Perez is a feminist who started a campaign to get Jane Austen on the back of a banknote after Elizabeth Fry was wiped off the fiver pound note. After this, she started receiving death and rape threats on Twitter from which two people have been arrested. As she was fearing for her life (bombs threats were issued on Twitter), she left London for a few days to go to Kent - where the interview took place.
The initial incident that sparked all of this was when Criado-Perez started a campaign to get Jane Austen onto the back of a banknote. And, of course, this was a witch-hunt.
Caitlin Moran: Twitter Silence
After the events of the previous article, Moran organised a campaign on Twitter calling for total silence. She campaigned for fellow feminists to not speak out against the abuse being given. However, a lot of people, women especially, thought that not speaking out was exactly the opposite of what they should have been doing and further marginalizing women. Also, Moran's motivation for doing this is blurred and she "just wanted to do a thing". The initial incident was, again, the campaign to get Jane Austen's picture on a banknote. Finally, I think that this was not a valid campaign as this campaign was only an advertisement for Moran's brand of feminist: Middle-classed, middle-aged, white women.
