#the quote evidence unquote is actually pretty similar; it's just treated differently | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

fideidefenswhore · 2 years ago

Text

addendum: i’m probably going to skip the section that is edward vi’s reign bcus, jfc, i do not want to have an aneurysm wrt how w/eir handles those...events, in elizabeth’s life, but another thing that seems to have shifted is that it’s evident she believed anne loved elizabeth ---> ‘gender disappointment theory’, anne actively feeling an ‘emptiness’ and no connection with her, no adoration or admiration of her child, in her novel of AB, also not compatible or in the same ‘universe’ here.

#like. am i supposed to find this 'diagnosis' credible when she does not claim the same for k/ofa ...#i don't think k/ofa had this either but. yk . 'the immense pressure to have a son' they both faced that? we're claiming katherine #did not have this after several stillbirths and the death of her only living son ? but anne did bcus her first child was a daughter?#both of them only having a surviving daughter in the face of this immense pressure #but only the one she has derision for had this? sure #the quote evidence unquote is actually pretty similar; it's just treated differently #there were also planned celebrations for the birth of a prince that were cancelled in 1516 #it's just that no one makes as big a deal about that #as the same and the addition of the squeezed 'ss' on the birth proclamation in 1533 #addendum: i did #mary's reign wasn't much better altho i did find her pov of bedingfield funny #*writing from the pov of bedingfield funny #poor bedingfield...

4 notes · View notes