A suburb of Sydney Australia is named Wollstonecraft. Lest you think our early settlers were woke, it was named after Edward Wollstonecraft, who according to Wikipedia "left England to seek fortune for himself and his sister Elizabeth and to escape the notoriety of his aunt, Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."
So thanks, bitch Mary, for driving your own kith and kin from their ancestral homeland.
OT, but conversion therapy has FINALLY been criminalized in Mexico (up to 17 years in the slammer). The right had been holding up the change to the criminal code for over 5 years. There were still a few "clinics" up on the US border (our north is your south politically) mostly catering to fundamentalist gringos.
Most of Wollstoncraft's arguments for women's education were the same as those made by Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz almost two centuries earlier. I wonder if Wollstonecraft had read Sor Juana (although the English seem to have a strong allergic reaction to borrowing anything from the Spanish language, let alone Mexican nuns).
Oh, look everybody, capitalism at work in downtown Detroit. You have to be a naive NPR station to believe that parking lot and parking structure owners wouldn't take advantage of having the NFL draft in town:
this is such perfect historiography.
(at some point in my ill administered life i got a graduate degree in history...)
"Virtue" could just mean strength or power. Because 18th Century again.
Do not pull a gun on a puppy in my company bitch, I will fuck you up.
A suburb of Sydney Australia is named Wollstonecraft. Lest you think our early settlers were woke, it was named after Edward Wollstonecraft, who according to Wikipedia "left England to seek fortune for himself and his sister Elizabeth and to escape the notoriety of his aunt, Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."
So thanks, bitch Mary, for driving your own kith and kin from their ancestral homeland.
OT, but conversion therapy has FINALLY been criminalized in Mexico (up to 17 years in the slammer). The right had been holding up the change to the criminal code for over 5 years. There were still a few "clinics" up on the US border (our north is your south politically) mostly catering to fundamentalist gringos.
Most of Wollstoncraft's arguments for women's education were the same as those made by Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz almost two centuries earlier. I wonder if Wollstonecraft had read Sor Juana (although the English seem to have a strong allergic reaction to borrowing anything from the Spanish language, let alone Mexican nuns).
Damn, William, that's a clunker of a title for your wife's biography.
Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein was the doctor, not the monster.
Wisdom is understanding that the doctor was the REAL monster.
OMG, thank you Robyn! Herbie and Dingus are wagging their tails as a thank you also too!!
The shared vacation of Byron Keats and Percy Shelly is unbelievable.
Tambora exploded in 1815.
The dust cloud caused the "year without a summer."
Famine and plague (cholera) walked the earth.
(I told you it was unbelievable)
Lord Byron fled England to get away from press stories of an affair he had with his half-sister.
He went to Geneva with his wife, his pregnant mistress, and his personal physician.
There he met Percy Shelly and his mistress, Mary Wallstonecraft.
The two mistresses were step sisters.
(I told you it was unbelievable)
They rented a house, but the bad weather kept them inside most of the time.
They told stories to pass the time, and eventually decided on a ghostly story contest.
Percy and Shelley, the two literary giants of their age, were non contenders.
The competition was between "Frankenstein" by Mary Wallstonecraft
and "Vampyre" by Dr John Polidori.
(I told you it was unbelievable)
These are both VERY SWEET PUPPY DOGS!
For all the existential dread and horror of the 21st century, I'm still glad my daughter didn't have to grow up in the 18th.
Actually, 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘶𝘳 is a cool word -- a pity it didn't actually pass into the language.
Thank you for this, Robyn.
Cartoon: In contempt:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/24/2236865/-Cartoon-In-Contempt?detail=emaildkdp&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email
Oh, look everybody, capitalism at work in downtown Detroit. You have to be a naive NPR station to believe that parking lot and parking structure owners wouldn't take advantage of having the NFL draft in town:
https://wdet.org/2024/04/26/parking-costs-surge-downtown-during-nfl-draft-in-detroit/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=der&utm_content=der_042624