Three anecdotes make a trend

In this post, I'm going to be talking about sexual harassment, bullying and other generally unpleasant effects of misogyny. If you feel that isn't something you'd like to read about, feel free to scroll on by, and don't look behind the cut.

( Click here for anecdotes and lots of interesting links )

If I am angry, it is only out of love, because I love these people I'm complaining about, so clever in some ways, but so unwilling to see why this issue hurts me so much. And if I am generalising, prove me wrong.

'But we totally said that it was found on the Internet!'

As a chaser of sorts, and to prove that I'm not really a very angry person, I bring you an unbelievably amusing story.

Exams [in the VCE, which is the secondary school qualification for students in the Australian state of Victoria] for the popular History: Revolution subject were originally supposed to include the artwork Storming the Winter palace on 25th October 1917 by Nikolai Kochergin, which depicts events during the October Revolution, which was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917.

But when students opened their exam this morning they found an altered version of the work with what appear to be a large "BattleTech Marauder" robot aiding the rising revolutionaries in the background.