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

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Um. Yeah. I perfectly know all of that. It's not because I'm coming from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, that I didn't travel or educate myself. I was going for the joke level (never heard of the rampant inside jokes around here?), but thanks for adding this instructive and patronising point in the comments.

First is 1789. Second I don't know. And yeah, that would be the theme, and I heard about that/noticed it myself.

[lucilla-1789.livejournal.com]

How could I know? After all, lots of Americans seem really puzzled by European cheek kissing etc. I didn't mean to be patronising so I'm sorry, if I sounded that way.

My reaction was because I've red tons of really serious (usually feminist) history that filters everything trough contemporary culture - such as interpreting friendship from earlier centuries as being sexual. Interpreting old letters between friends as love letter etc. Of course the gay-fanfictiony-part of liking history can be fun, but in very, very small dosages...