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One Sexist Obituary of a Famous Female Author Leads to a Humorous Trending Topic on Twitter

The obituary of Australian novelist Colleen McCullough, best known for The Thorn Birds, focuses more on her looks than her talents and spawns a series of fellow writers’ hilarious tweets about what their obituaries would be if the same happened to them
Posted on February 4, 2015 by Zoë Byrne (Editor in Chief, SevenPonds)

Regardless of what gender we identify ourselves as, we would hope that our obituaries would steer clear from sexist remarks about our physical appearances and focus instead on our personal and professional accomplishments. Sadly, in the case of best-selling author … Continue reading →

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