The wife of Bath
Eva Barb gives The Book of Wicked Wife the red pill treatment.
Feminism is ubiquitous in fairy tale studies. Donald Haase edited a book about it: Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches. Nancy Canepa, in Teaching Fairy Tales, called it “groundbreaking” and responsible for “stimulating” conversations within the field. Jack Zipes declared Laura Gonzenbach more important than the Brothers Grimm in his introduction to Beautiful Angiola, because …
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With age comes wisdom, or so they say. Personally, I don’t buy it, at least not as a blanket statement. I’ve seen too many examples to the contrary. Rather, I would posit that with age comes perspective. Beyond a certain age, it is almost impossible not to reflect on the past when witnessing current events. …
For once, we see a video that is exceptional for its non-stupidity on the subject of the role and power of women (and men) in history.
The T-FAS is a tool to help men rate the value of women they may wish to associate with
History doesn’t remember Peter III of Russia fondly. The grandson of Peter the Great, he’s ridiculed by historians. This is captured effectively by the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica that had this to say about him: Nature had made him mean, the smallpox had made him hideous, and his degraded habits made him loathsome. And Peter had …