If “cancel culture” were real and worked we’d have no shitty people in media/politics/etc. 

Hey, there. This is an excellent piece on a critical topic: exactly the kind of blog for which we visit Jezebel. And yet, in two hours, there are eight replies. A few years ago, there would have been hundreds. And I think that this is because the ‘grays’ are leaving in droves: there doesn’t seem to be any mechanism…

This is so sad that people assume this because it is NOT THE CASE!

I have not taken a science class since 11th grade, many years ago.

...Marcus Aurelii?

Have you read Ruby Blondell’s Helen of Troy? It’s terrific. Also what did you think of Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra book? I loved The Witches.

It’s true; the fickle nature of fame aside, you just never know what obscure sect leader is going to suddenly turn the entire nature of Western thought and religious structure upside down. 

THERE’S MORE THAN ONE CLEOPATRA???? FUCK. Where the hell was all this history when I was in school????

I call her Kayleigh MAGAninny.

Or...a Bratz doll display. 

Thanks! I really appreciate the recommendations!

I started asking a skill testing question to avoid this very situation. Not that it matters anymore since I will likely never date again *dramatic sigh*

Not too hot takey to me. Cleopatra was the queen of the biggest breadbasket in the Med at the time so her death paved the way for total Roman dominance of the eastern Med and all of the near East. Up until maybe 50AD Jesus was pretty irrelevant outside of Judaea and parts of Anatolia and Greece. Hell even after…

>I get too distracted just listening<

*high fives*

I did the same thing while writing my Hellenistic history final. I was writing it about women in that era and could not keep the famous Cleopatras and Arsinoes straight. After the third rewrite I just gave them labels to keep them straight.

Awwwwwww. That made me really sad for some reason.

Oh man can you imagine this woman’s day-to-day existence in the West Wing? I bet she has to hide in a broom closet three or four times a week, peeking through the keyhole until the blobby orange mass oozes past.

Have you listened to The History of Rome podcast? It ran for 5 glorious years, and I am scooping all of them up, currently halfway through year two.

No doubt Trump finds her very grabbable.