Sutematsu Oyama (1860-1919): Japan’s First College-Educated Woman
Full entry (with footnotes) here. Patreon here. Art notes behind the cut.
Seven Sisters nitpick: as others in the notes have said, Vassar was founded as a women’s college in 1861. It was not a men’s college that had recently become coed (though it did become coed rather than a women’s college in 1969). Sutematsu is one of its earliest alums, period!
Oh wow…………….say that
queerlychristian
ID: a tweet reading “just a quick reminder that a society exists to serve the people within it. there’s no such thing as a person being ‘useless’ to a society, only a society that is useless to a person”
corvidaezero
I get the joke, and it’s pretty good, but the historian in me can’t take Marie Antoinette slander.
She was only 14 when she became queen. 14. She was widely hated because she, being a child, couldn’t immediately start birthing out heirs to the throne.
This festered into resentment from the noble class, who infamously framed her not only for massive spending of taxes on frivolous things like diamond necklaces (the most famous instance), but also of just general fraud to the country (she was a foreigner and they treated her like one). Like, don’t get me wrong, she definitely spent money. But it’s far less than the public made it out to be, and far less than even her fellow nobles.
On the off-chance she got to hire her own staff, she would hire somebody who was friendly to her (since literally everybody else hated her since day 1). But oh man that just whipped up the nobility even more, with cries of favoritism (as if their entire life wasn’t just that…)
Further, the bankruptcy of France can be far more attributed to her father-in-law, Louis XV. He obliterated France’s economy trying to wage a war with all of Europe. But, women usually get far more blame when things go wrong than men. Women do be spending money, am I right fellas. Hillary’s e-mails.
She was young, female, and a foreigner – who the other nobility hated, and so they largely blamed all of their country’s grievances on her (moreso than even her husband, who was actually in charge of all that stuff). I mean, they killed him, too, but the woman is the one who gets blamed.
Anyway, she watched 2 of her children die (from illness, not from the guillotine, at least), before she got the guillotine a year later.
She accidentally stepped on the executioner’s foot, and her last words were, “I’m sorry, sir. I didn’t do it on purpose.”
And all of that is no better summarized by the fact that this meme is a play on “Let them eat cake,” which she never said. That too, was wrongly attributed to her. When he wrote that, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was writing about the person who actually bankrupted France, her predecessor.
tl;dr
Marie Antoinette was a foreign teenager who got caught in a deadlier version of “Why are millennials killing the napkin industry? It’s probably because of all the avocado toast.”
THANK GOD someone out here knows actual history. i’m so sick of people shitting on her! she never even said the line, it was completely made up propaganda!
Man half the notes on this post are idiots making stupid guillotine jokes and pretending their making a difference, and the other half is actual factual information like THIS, and if that doesn’t sum up a lot of young people’s politics then idk what else does lmfao. Also I legitimately did NOT know all of this about Marie Antoinette and am a little embarrassed about it. But I guess I also shouldn’t really be surprised that a shitty thing was misattributed to a woman who probably didn’t deserve to be murdered.
THIS.
I stand by this message whole heartedly but also I thought this said “I can’t eat applesauce” and I was so fucking confused.
Were it not for ops comment i would not have known that says applause. I was ready to take this post at face value reading that shit as applesauce because thats just what you do on this bitch if a site
Four Seasons Total Landscaping Potter, you were named after the funniest thing I have ever seen,
Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”
Okay but…if someone wants to take me on a date to a Barnes and noble and get me dinner and a drink and then let me peruse the stacks like I’m not saying no. A sandwich, a beer, and 2-5 books on various topics I hope I’ll someday read about? Good night.
The Swedish equivalent of Blockbuster is now best known for its candy, snacks and sodas.
This is El Ateneo Grand Splendid, an old theatre turned bookstore in Buenos Aires:
The stage itself was turned into a cafe:
You can’t even begin to comprehend the massive amounts of money this place makes, despite the fact that they turned the theatre boxes into reading nooks like this:
I’ve literally spent days holed up in there reading books for free while also consuming massive amounts of coffee and pastries.
Adapt or die, people.
Take me to Buenos freaking Aires… Leave me in this bookshop… Never look for me, you will not find me again.
Gotta make money somehow
The older this gets the funnier it is
people are like “if you put crabs in a bucket they can’t escape because they keep pulling each other back in, this is called crab bucket mentality and describes why people don’t help each other” and never acknowledge that crabs do not naturally occur in buckets, a human with more power had to put them there
Tumblr’s tendency to promote political isolation (i.e., only associating with people who completely agree with your personal polemic) cannot feasibly carry over to most parts of your life. Like I want you all to know that part of being a successful adult with a job and networking and all that requires making connections with people you disagree with and not making a big deal about it.
j-j-journal
cannot emphasize this enough
It’s actually healthy. You get easily radicalized by only talking to those who agree with you.
New collection of plates of colored birds to serve on and complement the illuminated boards Buffon, folio edition and in-4⁰ of the Royal Printing, 1770
By Temminck, CJ (Coenraad Jacob), 1778-1858 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788 Huet, Nicholas. Laugier Chartrouse, Guillaume Michel Jerome Meiffren, Baron, 1772-1843 Priest, JG 1769-
Publication info A Strasbourgh; At Legras Imbert and Comp 1838.. Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries BioDiv Library
