someone got this picture of bernie sanders watching this furry fight jack skellington at anime boston
Carnage by Clayton Crain
Constellation of Equuleus (Little Horse) Miniature on vellum by Giovanni Vendramin Padua, 1475–80 The New York Public Library, Spencer Collection
fol. 48v in: Hyginus, De astronomia Script by Francesco Buzzacarini
If you were a girl in Ancient Rome...
Unlike Egyptian and Greek women, Roman women had very little freedom. The Roman world was ruled by men. Women were often used as pawns for a man’s advancement.
Divorce could happen, but even with severe cases of abuse, the woman was left with nothing. The man got all of the assets and the children. A woman had to restart her life.
If your husband was in politics, you would be expected to sleep with his political friends while he sleeps with their wives. It was how you would seal the deal. Your husband would also have several mistresses, and even sleep with any slave he desired.
Marriage and childbirth deemed a woman noble. If you remained unwed and had no babies, you were worthless to society. Girls married between the ages of 12 and 14, any older and you would be viewed a spinster. At your wedding, you wore a plain white tunic, and a blood red veil. Your husband would carry you over the threshold to protect you against evil curses. During the ceremony you both made an offering to the gods for good luck and fertility blessings. You would be expected to get pregnant right away. You had no freedom until you gave birth to three children. Until then, your husband had the right to keep you locked up in the house to oversee the house, take time putting on makeup to look beautiful, plan parties, and if your husband wishes, to attend plays and gladiator battles along with him.
Male children were most important, and it was hopeful that you would have more than one. Daughters were less desired, and viewed unlucky. The parents would not even bother giving you a name, instead you would be known as daughter one or daughter two. Only sons would be given names. If your parents did not share such views, you were given a real name on your birth. Fathers could decided to care for their daughters. They only needed to claim one daughter by law, the others he could refuse to support and cast them out. Rome had thousands of street children, mostly girls who turned into stealing and brothels at young ages.
Now say your in need of work whether married or not ( maybe your husband is sick , or your a spinster ) , women could not hold a political office or educational jobs. You had a limited list:
Hairdresser, wig maker, nursemaid, wet nurse, midwife, seamstress, prostitute, temple slave, dancer and actress.
Women were thought to know how to use magic, and have knowledge of curses and this made men fearful of female ways, which is one reason so many strict laws were put on them. If you became a Vetsal Virgin, you would not be able to marry or have sex for thirty years while during that time, you studied magic and devotion, which added to the lure and mythic of women. A priestess was above priests and held high stations in society. Honestly, I think I would prefer to serve a goddess for life if I had lived in this society…
Roman women were no delicate flowers. They were strong and even vulgar as any man. Gossip was a hobby, and knowing every type of poison that the local apothecary carried was important. You likely enjoyed sexual affairs as much as your husband did and had secret lovers. Your mother raised you to be wise and witty. You could read, write, knew your math, you could sew a beautiful tunic for each of your babies, and you did not faint at the sight of blood when watching gladiators duel. At the end of the day, you came home, offered incense to your goddess, then kissed your children and went to prepare a feast for your husband and his friends.
Augustus’s wife Livia is famously said to have killed him after 52 years of marriage by smearing poison on the green figs he liked to pluck from the trees around their house. Agrippina is said to have committed a similar act against her elderly husband Claudius, slipping a deadly toxin into his dinner of mushrooms. Agrippina’s predecessor Messalina – the teenage third wife of Claudius – is remembered primarily for ordering the deaths of her enemies and for her reputation as an insatiable sexual glutton, a label which even led to her being used as the poster girl for an anti-venereal disease campaign in France in the 1920s.
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graveyard in Orkney, Scotland
My roommate from Beijing is fascinated by English expletives and is asking about the most offensive terms we have. I tried to explain the difference between insulting swear words and offensive slurs, and he was delighted by ‘asshole’, ‘motherfucker’, ‘bastard’, ‘dickhead’, and ‘shithead’. Explaining slurs without using any proved to be difficult, as he just tried to insult me by saying, “You are a big slur!”
I told him that he can combine different words to make new ones and he just pointed at me and said, “Fuck you, you son of shit-sucker! You loser!”
“In China, we say ‘fuck your mom, fuck your ancestors, fuck your parents, fuck everyone… but we don’t say ‘fuck yourself’. I love that! In America, you can fuck anyone, even yourself!”
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welcome to the land of opportunity, my brother. Please, sit down. Relax. Go fuck yourself.
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) dir. James Whale
Hugh Ferriss, Architectural Renderings, 1910-1940 Ferriss was a fascinating illustrator and archetect whose drawings influenced not only people in his field but aslo popular culture touchstones such as Batman and Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow. On a personal note, he also worked for my grandfather.
The Dragon Devouring the Comrades of Cadmus by Hendrick Goltzius, after Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem
Dutch, 1588
engraving
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Source: philamuseum.org
captainmarvelstan
Captain America is a war criminal, Winter soldier is an assassin and Hawkeye murdered people in endgame.
Men™️ on Twitter: How can Captain Marvel, a woman, twist a man’s hand who verbally abused her. She should be put in jail.
ren-sauce
this feels appropriate
i saw this and thought i should add
Its comments like this that make you want to field goal kick a someone in the hood of their vag.
No one is afraid of her "powerful character", there are just so many great powerful female reprised roles that it makes it easy to differentiate between a truly talented and committed person and some one riding out political polarization. These are just a very few of the powerful female roles in cinema;
Ellen Rippley, Sara Connor, Hermione Granger, Leia Organo, Clarice Starling, Xena the Warrior Princess, Valeris from Conan, Imperator Furiosa, the Angels in Charlies Angels, Eowyn from LOTR, Hit Girl, Domino, Lara Croft, Letty (Fast and the Furious), Lelou (the 5th Element), Alice (Resident Evil), Selene (Underworld), Trinity (the Matrix), Mulan (Mulan).
