Because Fr Rev Homoeroticism Isn't Just For The Guys

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

So I'm a bit late for preparing and posting the quotes of the month's challenge, because RL is an organisation mess right now with a trip to England to plan, yadda yadda, so meanwhile, have some nice pics.

Found these, as I was watching one part of the horrid American docu of the History Channel:





Spot the hands. Tricoteuses Can Has Les Yay? Actually, granted, the one in pink in the first doesn't look that happy... nor a tricoteuse. It might have something to do with that. I'd like to hear the backstory of that image.

So we know what is the first, but I wish I knew what was the art of the second, coz it looks great. :(


Note on the vid I took these from: Seriously, that silly historian is reducing the crowd of women who marched to Versailles as "fishladies" who were "hugely muscular". Hello buying into propaganda stereotypes. Btw, if you watch (it's at 6:45), note the two on a cannon, I love those.

Plus the loser after that with his ultra-simplification "most of them probably couldn't even write their names" and "it's quite extraordinary that these ordinary women suddenly acted as the protagonists of this historical process" -- well, duh. He needs to do some reading on the role of women in revolts. Also: literacy had progressed. They probably could write their names. That might have been the only thing they could write, but that was a start!

Comments

[awils1.livejournal.com]

OMG HANDS. \o/ I have a scan of dudes doing the same thing, it's very cute. I agree with lucilla_1789 that it is more than likely part of the thematic collection of art that focused on the image of all three Estates joining together for the common good.

Seriously, that silly historian is reducing the crowd of women who marched to Versailles as "fishladies" who were "hugely muscular".

Okay, as a wrestling fan, this makes me crack up laughing :D

On a more serious note, North Americans just can't compose a decent documentary. I do wish to know how the Bastille was 'feudal' - I see that the latest, very stringent definitions of feudalism have escaped the makers. Being incarcerated by a monarch does not fit the bill! *goes slightly crazy with annoyance*

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I know that. See above.

That documentary is one of the worst in the worst. Although for Brits, the BBC docu-drama wasn't much better.