Darcylicious joins #twittersilence on August 4th

Some of you may have heard of the 24 hour walkout or #twittersilence.  It is best explained by this F.A.Q.  Why is darcylicious participating?

• A 28-year-old U.K. feminist activist and freelance journalist. She successfully campaigned to make sure one non-royal woman would be featured on the redesigned British banknotes, Jane Austen, and then began receiving death and rape threats about every minute for the next 48 hours.
• What do these trolls have against Pride and Prejudice?

Nothing, except inasmuch as Austen, like Criado-Perez, was a woman who dared to speak in public. “It is a problem involving a certain type of man who can’t cope with a woman being vocal and being in the public eye,” Criado-Perez told the Independent. “They deal with it by shutting women up with threats of sexual violence. It is nothing new, it has been going on for millennia; this is just its most recent incarnation.”

• Why Sunday?  August 4 is International Friendship Day