AP History made me the man-hating, fancy-job-having feminist harpy I am today! Whoo hoo!

What bothers me is that a lot of people (well...a lot of white people...kind of hating to count myself among them right about now) seem to think ..

ADULTOSAUR in: THE ACADEMY PERSON

*gets popcorn*

Anne of fucking Cleeves, everyone. Escapes an oppressive Protestant upbringing. Marries king. He doesn't fancy her so doesn't forces himself on her instead pecking her on the cheek each night. Wants it annulled. Anne, who has paid fucking attention, agrees without hesitation and takes the nice house (Hever castles,…

I've always held a spot for Anne of Cleves. I'm sure some found her a pushover, but I think she played the game well. Got to live in the Boleyn's house, for to party at court, lived as the King's sister. That's about as good an outcome gets with Henry.

Out of all of the existing 'portraits', the Nidd Hall piece most closely correlates with contemporary accounts of what Anne Boleyn looked like.

UGH WELL NOW I FEEL LIKE A CUNT

Can I just say that I love Anne Boleyn? I follow "her" on twitter (an actor who plays her in reenactments) and she posted this news a few days ago. Very interesting.

Probably. We would have gotten that one right if you came into my Taco Bell.

My empathy ended when they got angry with the staff over it. My field o' fucks went barren.

"Maybe she was just scared for her daddy. She just wanted people to stop being mean to her daddy. Because she knows that her daddy loves the world and just wants to make it a more beautiful place."

Jason,

People taking photos of strangers' behinds should be banned.

everyone, please respond with the sins of your ancestors and relations, since we're all exactly and equally as bad as our bloodline

While we're calling out perp's race, let's also mention the class of the lynchers: working class and poor whites. For them, lynching was a sick, violent form of street theater that highlighted the social privileges of whiteness—which, for poor white trash, was the only power they had . The rich, white 1% who owned…

I've got mixed feelings about the article in general, but I love love love this part:

Dammit. I read that whole Times piece and wound up pissed off at the Jews. Don't I feel foolish.

Makes sense! HOWEVER...I would like to tell the following story: