Then why don't you take the word of the hundreds of historians who came before Paul Johnson and esteemed Boudica nothing more than a historical footnote? Could it be because Paul Johnson glorifies some barbarian trash who managed to upset a couple of Roman applecarts before being swatted like a flea?
Methinks I smell a bit of a mysoginist, not wanting to give a woman credit for anything other than hearth and kinder. You know, the old a woman’s place is in the home rap.
Methinks I smell a revisionist feminazi, aggrandizing the acts of some obscure "heroine" in order to assert a parity that nature doesn't recognize.
If she did half of what they say, she was pretty damn heroic against all odds.
"Heroic?" I doubt it. Defiant? Maybe. Vengeful? Little doubt. But I don't know that she accomplished much in the long run, or that the price of her defiance in any way offset the cost to her and her fellow savages.
Why don’t you go back to browbeating your wife, that’s if anyone would have even considered marrying you in the first place.
Not content to expose your ignorance, you compound it with childishness. You're no credit to your gender. Or to humanity, from what I can gather.
Not content to expose your ignorance, you compound it with childishness. You’re no credit to your gender. Or to humanity, from what I can gather.
I go back to my comment that I smell a mysoginist. Even your name “Iron” Jack reeks of it. Go ahead and quote all of those hundreds of historians that say otherwise. I’m looking forward to reading your list and their comments. Paul Johnson, by the way, is a conservative historian, and I doubt he would be raising this woman to heroic proportions based on some feminazi platform. I think you are a bitter man who has had some bad experiences with women. My “woman’s” intuition is picking up on your negative vibes bigtime.