#Using the guillotine cause he was impotent in killing with his bare hands too I guess...

[robespapier]

Fred, Fred, Fred (Fred Vargas, the author), have you read something fucked up like Jean Artarit's "psychoanalysis" of Robespierre or what? (I haven't read it myself, but I know what specific kind of bullshit is in it)

Anyway, I know this is fiction, and the author needs Robespierre to be as "weird" as possible for the ~aesthetic, I guess? But we should, as a society, stop pathologizing people based on their sexuality. Besides, there's no proof Robespierre couldn't fuck. Maybe he just wouldn't. But there's no proof he wouldn't either. Maybe he did. Maybe he did not. In any case that shouldn't be the problem these bigoted takes make it out to be...