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fideidefenswhore · 9 months ago

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'Inside the REAL Wolf Hall: From the murderous Henry VIII to the ruthless Thomas Cromwell and the 'violent woman' Anne Seymour', huh, yk...i don't really think we should be equating anne stanhope with thomas cromwell and henry viii. just thinking aloud.

latest promotional article for the tmatl production referring to anne stanhope/seymour as 'violent'...booooooo

#'violent' again...where #even if she had like...idk... bitchslapped kparr. i still don't think this would be appropriate. bcus comparatively #there would still be no equivalence #im big on not diminishing or underestimating the agency of particularly 16c noblewomen #or denying them facets or failing to acknowledge their potential for/ complicity in moral grey areas #but this is still false equivalency #AS sent anne askew financial assistance. and henry viii had her burned at the stake #so ...let's be serious for a moment...#i know that's too much to ask of the daily mail...of bbc...... and YET #cromwell constructed an execution where the condemned #were hung upside down by their ankles so that they drowned slowly in the rising tide of the thames #and rented out a boat so that he could watch #vs a woman that could be grasping and didn't keep (according to parr) all her promises to a former friend/confidante.

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