#sorry i feel like i just dump on Corset People all the time but lmfao | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

alliluyevas · 1 year

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🔥 the entire discipline of history

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okay i guess my hot take is i feel like people just have this knee jerk condemnation of history focused on wars and i say this as someone who finds military history generally rather boring. like a) even if i'm not into it i do think it's a valid form of study b) the number of like Old White Men Who Are Obsessed With Battle Formations And No Nuance is not as high as you think it is!

I honestly think it's like really offensive when I see all these posts like "when men say they love history they mean they love reading about wwii and what i mean is i love fashion history" i think it's like...sorry that wwii affected millions of people and the world as a whole and our world today profoundly. it's a very shallow and internalized-misogynistic way of speaking about history.

also like...wars affect women! wars affect everyone! wars may, shockingly, have a greater impact on people's lives and deaths and existences than fashion!

#sorry i feel like i just dump on Corset People all the time but lmfao #also like i hate the equation of women's history w fashion history. it again feels frivolous and demeaning #and like i would consider myself to be someone whose primary historical focus is women's history via marriage family and domestic culture #but that's not the whole of women's experiences and war and politics have always been something that women a) participated in to some #extent b) were profoundly affected by #idk i feel like im being somewhat inflammatory and not coherent here but. hopefully y'all get what i'm saying #also i went to a really cool talk this fall by a military historian about opioid addiction in civil war vets!

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