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Mina, July 26:
Lucy is to be married in the autumn, and she is already planning out her dresses and how her house is to be arranged. I sympathise with her, for I do the same, only Jonathan and I will start in life in a very simple way, and shall have to try to make both ends meet.
Like in her previous entry, in which Mina was freely roaming the countryside and return when she likes without a chaperone while Lucy was following her mother for social duties, a difference between Lucy and Mina is showcased.
Both Lucy and Mina already plan out arrangements for their upcoming weddings, as they're both very young and in love and eager for the event. It's likely that Lucy planning out is one of her few chances to express some freedom without her mother.
Lucy is to marry the only son of a Lord, and she and her mother are upper class themselves. Mina and Jonathan, despite his recent promotion to solicitor after passing his exam, will have to start their life together simple and try to make both ends meet. It doesn't help that they both don't have any relatives.
It's likely from Stoker's notes that Jonathan proposed on April 16 before his departure right after getting the news of his first assignment soon. He had passed his exams recently and setting out to sell multiple properties to an aristocrat gave him the chance to go "this will provide us with enough to start our lives together!" and evidently they both couldn't wait.
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it’s kind of crazy to see people argue against the “patriarchy hurts men too!” form of antifeminism by pointing out that the same people wouldn’t say that about white people and racism because if anything the argument is easier to make about white people. racism is a key mechanism of capitalist oppression. and it is a key mechanism of white delusion and maintaining white complicity. but race is also not historically stable and there’s always a considerable bit of gray area. above all because race is entirely fabricated. but the same cannot be said for sexual oppression, which isn’t entirely rigid obviously, but lacks the same gray area. you have, largely, two halves of a population - a male half and a female half. and men as INDIVIDUALS participate directly in women’s oppression, most acutely through violence and the threat of violence, for which there is really not a racial equivalent. racial violence is not nearly as common as sex based violence, and interracial relationships have historically been sanctioned, where the law has essentially forced women to enter into relationships with men. and that’s not even considering male family members. like…that’s why feminists said the personal was political……male oppression of women occurs literally on an individual basis in a very direct, day to day way
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POONAM PANDEY ????
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remarried empress but navier and rashta team up psydea style
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i need a game like harvest moon / story of seasons / etc where they let u date the milfs
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I have a question for you! Do you know what sort of garment unmarried noble girls would wear? And i mean very noble women- i need it for a reference :D
Hi! That truly depends on what time period you are talking + what you mean by noble + how old is the girl ^^;
A Heian girl will not wear the same as an Edo one, same for a noble (kuge) or samurai (buke) daughter
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every two weeks a bunch of ppl bombard neil gaiman with the same question abt queer representation, and every times hes like. can you people find some media literacy instead of self righteously demanding if smth is canon. and like every single time the thing ends up either being canon but not in kindergarten terms, or just there enough that it literally does not matter
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Trying to limit who can and can not worship Artemis is a fruitless endeavour and only makes you look like a clown
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If A Song of Ice and Fire was written by a teenage girl you can bet your sweet ass there would be entire chapters dedicated to regional westerosi/essosi fashions and how they were influenced…god we could have had it all why does Mr Martin have to be an old guy who likes writing (inaccurate) battles more than historical clothing and hairstyles 💔
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Unmarried women were forced into giving up their babies and bullied and belittled. Maternal benefits, food stamps and birth certificates were taken from unmarried mothers, and social workers lied to single mothers, saying that babies were 'on trial' with foster families, when they had been permanently placed. Mothers were declared unfit or confused and their babies taken away.
Pat King was a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Whitchurch, Shropshire, when the head teacher at her school told her parents that she believed the girl was hiding her pregnancy. Only three weeks later, Pat gave birth to a boy, and after two weeks of caring for him, she was ordered to hand him over to a social worker. 'My dad was there, quite firmly making sure I didn't make too much fuss. It's one of those things you never forget, just like it was yesterday.'
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
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Hey, merasmus! Buddy chum pal bestie besto friend mate chummy chum!
*manic finger guns*
*not impressed*
What do you want, Mrs Pauling?
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unfortunately for me mdzs does not tickle the 'there is fertile ground here' part of my brain that scumvil does. it tickles the 'how the fuck is this not a failed society' part that nart does.
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