#stanne's are incapable of viewing feminism through any other lens than 'not like the other girls'
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there has GOT to be a way to explain anne boleyn's proto-feminism and importance to history without absolutely shitting on katherine of aragon and acting as if she was basically set dressing for her entire marriage rather than a person in her own right and an important one at that, but i think a lot of stanne's are just virulently misogynistic so they're physically incapable of doing so
#personal#'anne was not catherine content to sit around and be paraded and sew her husband's shirts she hired a shirtmaker' dear god in heaven shut U#stanne's are incapable of viewing feminism through any other lens than 'not like the other girls'#like you do not need to constantly tear down all these other women from the era#and their importance to history - especially katherine#just to make anne look like some miracle#(i think a lot about that person who said anne was the most significant queen in english history)#(when she was a consort for only three years while england has had like six actual queen regnants including her own fucking daughter)#like there's this tendency people have to try and highlight anne's importance by just shitting on any other woman tangentially close to her#especially katherine cuz you know rivalry and all#like it's just deeply misogynistic i'm sorry#the inability to recognize the importance of the role katherine had as a consort and also as a person and a queen herself#it's just misogyny because she wasn't doing it in some fucking katniss everdeen way#anyway that's my contribution to anne's death day sorry girl but your fans are a fucking nightmare
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on the topic of stanne's being incapable of viewing feminism through any other lens than 'not like the other girls'... would anne even be regarded as so exceptional if she wasn't as privileged as she was? would the idea of her innate exceptionalism, her standing out at court as more fashionable/passionate/moral/intellectual/exotic still persist? i just have to wonder how many women could have been remembered by history as exceptional, if only given the ability to — if they had the resources from birth that anne had etc.
#not to nepo baby discourse ab however i hate the aristocracy <3 mwah.#ab fandom#if anne wasn’t born to a family that could get her the position in the low countries/france#raised in kent in a social bubble that facilitated humanist learning#wasn’t encouraged and enabled by parents who took equal effort for her prospects as they did with their son#(like... say... jane seymour…)#would she be so innately exceptional? would we still call her a 'self-made woman'?#she was given those things. she was exceptionally lucky and living in exceptional circumstances.#definitely an interesting thought considering how often i see stannes argue that coa isn't worthy of the praise she gets#because she was born royal - which seems hypocritical#esp considering how often anne's supposed 'fighting for the rights of others' gets emphasised as if her privilege didn't come#directly at the cost of those underneath her within a social hierarchy that is so inconceivably unjust
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