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Posted on 12/28/2022 5:40:21 PM PST by Rummyfan
One of the great, pesky questions of human history has finally been answered. For thousands of years , as we all know, most great accomplishments were the works of men. But now and then there was an outlier, a woman doing great things. Esther in the Bible, Joan of Arc or Elizabeth I of England. It made no sense — but today, thanks to the tireless work of gender studies departments we know the truth: those weren’t women at all. They were actually men.
This weekend we had further confirmation of this revelation from the New York Times which ran a piece revealing that Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, was a trans man.
We know this because sometimes Alcott went by “Lou” and mentioned having a “boys’ spirit.”
I’m sold. I mean Alcott’s work shows an intimate and profound understanding of girlhood and womanhood. Who understands those things better than men?
But why stop with Alcott?
(Excerpt) Read more at thespectator.com ...
Been too long to remember but it was about BB. Lots of photos.
Know who really is a man?
Katie Hobbs, Prime Minister of New Zealand, and Charles Schumer’s wife.
Look at their photos. They gotta be!
The actual women have to get together and refuse to compete against these freaks.
As PfSM said, the Bisely Boy -- that was sufficiently robust folklore that it showed up in National Geographic, probably read it in "This England", one of their coffeetable compilations.
I fear that some folks here didn’t see this as satire, which follows the usual pattern. State a thesis that is similar enough to what you hear in the daily fare, but one that is just over the edge enough that it gives itself away as being utterly tongue in cheek. In being just a bit too preposterous it shows us how preposterous everything of the ilk is.
Historical mysteries....Who was Shakespeare really! Christopher Marlow? (Not going down that road!!)
Since Marlowe was killed years and years before Shakespeare stopped writing Shakespeare’s plays, it seems unlikely.
Some people think the Death was faked and Marlowe moved to Italy and wrote plays that he sent back to England to be performed as Shakespeare’s. (Fits right in around here!)
Some people need to put down the crack pipe.
Hildegard Van Bingen - Vision (1141)
Many people did not know she was born as Hildebert Von Bingen, but at an early age, he developed a desire to dress like a nun and had his genitals cut off so he could sing in a feminine voice.
Yes, just another example of a musically inclined man changing his gender so that he could gain a wider audience.
Who are we to judge?
Brit History / English Lit conspiracy theory!
See....you made me go down that road! :)
any one named Shakes Spear HAS to be a man
Like all the purported research, it presupposes that there's any credible question about authorship. There isn't. The delusional system about "who really did it" arose in the mid-19th century, without so much as a whiff of it before that. It seems to grow out of pathological elitism common to academic losers.
I think that, most, but not everything attributed to Shakespeare was his. He worked in a theatre group and others probably contributed to works eventually edited and published under his name. I do not think that Marlowe became Shakespeare after his death, but I would not be surprised if he did not die and lived under some assumed name.
Time for bed! Good night!
The surviving play "Sir Thomas More", which the crown never allowed to be produced and performed, had something like five authors, including Shakespeare (the largest surviving example of his handwriting) and his role was to revise the original. It still didn't pass the censor.
One of the other revising authors, Thomas Dekker, was an associate of Shakespeare's rival Ben Jonson. Jonson wrote the best of the forewords to the First Folio, referring to Shakespeare by name and referring to him as "sweet swan of Avon".
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