“Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”— Moderata Fonte, pseudonym of Modesta Pozzo (1555-1592). She was an Italian writer from Venice who wrote religious and romantic poetry. Modesta is best known, however, for the posthumously published The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men (via hereticnarrative)
Men are lying to you about history
Look how they’ve erased women from medicine despite midwives and “sorceresses” being the women who understand childbirth, the human body, and herbs and medicines. They killed them then named fathers of medicine.
I rarely believe what a man tells, even if it’s a fun story. I might enjoy his storytelling, I might laugh at the jokes, but at the end of the day, I know men romanticise their stories (or completely invent them) because they want to sound adventurous. Believing a history written by men is akin to believing any other work of fiction.
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I cannot recommend enough that you read The Worth of Women. It is such a refreshing piece of literature compared to the avalanche of rancid misogynistic texts that permeate history.
It used to be on Google Books but I can’t find it anymore. So here is a pdf of a book written on the topic by a Cambridge lecturer, it is a very instructive read on women and their condition at the time, but also of their fight for recognition and liberation from male prejudices. Know your history gyns, we’ve always fought back one way or another ❤
Reblogging for the book rec!
Sonic the Hedgehog (sustained speed of 767 MPH) could have made the journey from the Shire to Mount Doom (1718.5 miles) in just over two hours. But also he famously loves rings, so he almost assuredly would have found the thrall of the Ring far too powerful to resist. Tails would have had to shoot him
“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.”— Stevie Nicks
(via girlinlondon)It’s a trap.
