how the fuck did all of those renaissance dilettantes learn so much crap? Like they spoke 3 languages and were foremost in several branches of science, plus they wrote poetry, played the violin, and were master artists? And they still had time to be gay?
europeans: *throws bananas at black athletes and politicians in their countries*
europeans: you americans are so obsessed with race… so strange….
Britain: *harasses the fuck out prince harry’s gf meghan markle for being a biracial black woman despite being white passing*
Britain: right? I don’t get this whole “race” thing Americans got going on
Europeans: pissed off about immigration in their countries
Europeans: *colonized the whole FUCKING world*
Australians: *supports the ‘stop the boats campaign’. let’s one nation back in. closed refugee detention centres and displaced the people*
Australians: we’re so tolerant and multicultural. idk y america has such an issue with race.
Canadians: *experience a rise in hate crimes against Muslim Canadians. Forced indigenous peoples off their land and into the horrific residential school system. Has a higher incarceration rate for poc than white people.*
Canadians: we’re way better and more tolerant up here than America. Why can’t they just learn from us.
the thing about “well-behaved women rarely make history" is that the author, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, didn’t write it about women who would be considered “badly-behaved;“ she wrote it in a book about a midwife, about women who had been largely ignored and erased from history because as a result of their “good behaviour.” So it’s not a “BAD GIRLS DO IT WELL" kind of quote; it’s a reminder to respect and pay attention to the women who go about quietly living their lives.
it’s a reminder to respect and pay attention to the women who go about quietly living their lives.
They do make history; they just don’t make the history books.