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There are few women on the show, and after receiving a torrent of abuse on social media, Lucy Clarke (Jesus, Oxford) isn’t surprised

After my team’s latest episode of University Challenge, I idly scrolled through Twitter. It was much as ever: old men telling me to wipe my nose , some praise, and the usual criticism: “What a mess, did she get dressed in the dark”; “She deserved to mess that up after her poncey Kraftwerk pronunciation”. So far, so much as we’d been warned. But then came the real doozy.

 

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Feminists often complain about men being attracted to them. Would they rather be men, who - for the most part - no one is attracted to?

why would anyone become animated, agitated, or aroused in anyway from what is tweeted?

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Some pathetic people are just foul.They have nothing better to do with their lives. Ignore/pity them but don't give them the satisfaction of letting them get to you. You are terrific fun and very clever.

I don’t understand people who look at twitter and expect all the comments to be sane and intelligent. As a rule of thumb, at least 20% of the population at any one time are arseholes.

What a crappy, elitist program... I remember The Young Ones taking the piss out of it... having lived in the UK for twelve years, it was a society for the rich and privileged, and my blood boiled that my fucking TV licence paid for shit like this. it would not get on AUS TV.

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