Alie Ward (host)

Sure.

So this was a tweet she posted in late November 2024 with the caption, thrilled to say I passed my Viva with no corrections and am officially pH done.

And in the tweets photo, she's like happily cradling a yearbook sized volume.

It's hard bound in this deep crimson color with foiled gold lettering.

And it reads olfactory ethics, the politics of smell in modern and contemporary prose.

It's cool.

So people just said, whoa, that's fascinating.

Who knew?

Congrats on that.

Yeah.

Within a week, this post had nearly 120 million views.

In the grab bag of responses were a lot of male avatar photos, clearly triggered, saying things such as, what a stupid fucking thing to study.

And you have made no valuable contributions in your thesis and perhaps your entire life.

Another said, instead of a baby, you spent three years producing junk.

Three years becoming less intelligent.

What a wasted life.

Another claimed, you should be deported to Haiti.

I don't know why they wrote that because she doesn't live in the U.S.

But Ali also relayed to one media outlet, quote, I did receive one rape threat in my personal inbox, which I felt really significantly crossed the line because my email was not readily available on the Internet.

So that person had to go to some trouble to find it.