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one of my patients came in for an emergency visit, because she snapped the wire on her retainer watching the movie when MBJ took his shirt off she clenched her teeth so fucking hard she snapped it. that is the fucking funniest shit ever to me this tiny 17 year old girl thirsting so goddamn hard she busted steel
Dela explains her elimination
I don’t wanna hear ittttt! I’m so mad she left!
“Apparently, I have something something here. Whatever it is, people are a fan.”
“For someone so smart you can be pretty dumb.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, you always had it. Just because you couldn’t be bothered with most of us doesn’t mean we weren’t interested.”
Janelle Monáe really did that. Just watch.
Anyway, if you read marriage certificates from church records, a full 85% of first marriages for young women were around 18-19 years old. The rest skewed higher, into the early twenties, with only a few being below that age and only one in a thousand was younger than 16.
The age of puberty has declined over the centuries as girls get better nutrition, as well, so throughout the middle ages the age at which a girl could expect her first period was around 16, where modern girls often get it much younger.
The idea that women in earlier ages were married and mothers in their early teens is a myth. Marriages of children were usually only between noble families, and made for political reasons, or creepy old bastards who wanted a child-wife and could get away with it because they were rich and powerful. They often would point to the fact that the Roman elite did the same thing as justification. The Romans, of course, would point to the Greeks doing the same thing as justification, the Greeks pointed at the Assyrians, and so on back through the ages.
It was considered disgusting by normal people then and still is.
This myth is still brought out and touted by sick fuckers. Know it for what it is; a falsehood.
And EVEN among the nobility marriages at such a young age were a much rarer occasion than those apologists would make you believe.
Let’s look an an egregious example, Henry the bloody VIII:
First marriage:
He was 18, Katharine of Aragon was 23.
Second marriage:
He was 40/41, Anne Boleyn, depending on which theory you believe, was anywhere between 24 to 32.
Third marriage:
He was 44, Jane Seymour was 28.
Fourth marriage:
He was 48, Anne of Cleves was 25
Fifth marriage:
He was 48, Catherine Howard, depending on which source you believe, was between 17-22. And yes, people at the time actually were squicked out by this age difference. And rightly so.
Sixth marriage:
He was 51, Catherine Parr was 31.
Even the most notorious LECHER and WIFE MURDERER in history did not marry teenagers in at least 5 if not 6 out of 6 marriages.
And here’s another Tudor tidbit, both Henry VII and VIII knew how traumatic and damaging it is for women marrying/having children too young. Henry VII’s mother was married at 12 and gave birth to Henry VII at 13. It caused so much damage and trauma that she never had another child after him despite being married three times.
So yes CUT THAT SHIT OUT. Teenage girls are NOT adults and anyone preying on them is pure evil.
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And as for the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville to King Edward IV, she was 27 at the time. He? Was 22.
She had been married before, and did marry young…at the age of sixteen or seventeen, to Sir John Gray, who was about five years her senior.
@systlin This is good information, but do you have a source for the information about how most marriages back in the day were not actually usually from a younger age? I tried Googling it but I can only find things talking about modern day issues.
Well, if you don’t want to spend months crawling through digitized copies of marriage records preserved in church archives from the 12th through 18th centuries from England, Italy, Germany, France, ect (which you can do, and it will show you I’m right) you can go read “ Medieval Households” by David Herlihy, Harvard University Press, 1985. He did the archive crawling for you.
Also Peter Laslett’s book “The World We Have Lost”, where he details over a thousand marriage certificates, and he dug through many more in the writing of the work.
Wait. I am spanish. Do they actually think henry/enrique VII married fucking katherin/catalina de Aragón as a teenager?
You know we see films about this in school and every one is pretty much adult there, both fisically and in the story.
There’s this…really weird trend in a lot of pseudo-European fantasy/ ‘historical’ books to have girls marry like…really young, to vastly older dudes. Like at about 13, getting married off to like 30 year olds. And then say “Well that’s what it was like back then.”
(Sideyes G.R.R.M)
And…no. No it wasn’t. That’s gross. England was creeped TF out when Henry VIII married Catherine Howard when she was between 17 and 22 and he was 48 as stated above, and rightly so.
All of this is excellent, and there is one thing I would add:
When you DID have these super-young marriages between nobility, it was more or less the same thing we do today when we scream “DIBS!” over who gets the TV remote. You might have a 13-year-old lord marrying a 14-year-old girl, but they weren’t expected to actually act as husband and wife, not yet. He had schooling to finish, she had to learn how to run a household. The union was purely political and not to be consummated until later–you know, at a point when they were 18 or 19 and she could carry a child without dying of it and he could actually support a wife.
Now THIS is the kind of historical discourse I’m here for.
In response to the Spanish contributor, no-one actually thinks Katherine was a teen when she married Henry VIII. However, she was when she married Arthur (his brother) which was perfectly standard, as @prismatic-bell points out, because marriage was often merely a political method of ‘reserving’ prime marriage partners - you didn’t actually start having sex until you could be sure the wife could have a baby without dying in the birthing chamber (because rich and politically important wives were not expendable as GRRM would have you think; they were pretty damn important beyond the birthing chamber and if you potentially lost that commodity through bedding your bride too early and having her fall pregnant and die before she was capable of bearing a baby, you were a fucking idiot)
This is also backed up by all the faff that went on during Henry’s divorce proceedings with Katherine. One of Henry’s main arguments was that it was biblically unlawful for him to marry a woman who’d already been married and sexually intimate with his brother. A huge amount of time went into arguing over whether Katherine and Arthur had consummated their marriage before he’d died.
Why would you spend so much effort arguing on what, to us, would seem like a fairly obvious point (eg that marriage = sex)? Unless at the ages when Arthur (14) and Katherine (15) were married, it was still very uncommon for the two parties to actually have sex.
(also another person who had a child bride? john I of england, who was recorded as spending an entire weekend in bed with her when he should have been getting on with ruling the country; and the church commentators were seriously squicked out. people did not approve of shagging your child bride until your bride was an actual grownup woman)
A city sidewalk by itself is nothing. It is an abstraction. It means something only in conjunction with the buildings and other uses that border it, or border other sidewalks very near it … if a city’s streets are safe from barbarism and fear, the city is thereby tolerably safe from barbarism and fear … But sidewalks and those who use them are not passive beneficiaries of safety or helpless victims of danger. Sidewalks, their bordering uses, and their users, are active participants in the drama of civilization versus barbarism in cities. To keep the city safe is a fundamental task of city’s streets and sidewalks. This task is totally unlike any service that sidewalks and streets in little towns are called upon to do. Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities, by definition, are full of strangers.
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If you look at the world and say “Yes, there are enough homes for people, yes, there is enough food for people, but if we give it away for free they won’t have earned it and the economy will collapse.” Then you have chosen money (a constructed medium of exchange) over living beings who only want to continue living in peace and safety.
And I have no qualms telling you, that is the wrong choice, and you have been brainwashed by this destructive, exploitative system.
I am used to fantasy and science fiction — in novels, in films, in comic books — setting up apocalypse as threat, cataclysmic change as something to be prevented at all cost. Villains are, by and large, those who want to change the world, while heroes are the ones who preserve the status quo, who keep it intact. The unquestionable premise of this kind of setup is that the world is precious and worth saving. The Stone Sky rejects this out of hand. If the Broken Earth trilogy as a whole shows a world where cataclysm and upheaval is the norm, The Stone Sky interrogates what right worlds built on oppression and genocide have to exist.
Amal El-Motar on N. K. Jemisin’s The Stone Sky (via darkmagicmike)
You ask me why I think you’re still beautiful, when you’re so broken and wounded. Darling, let me tell you this: I’ve never needed perfection, I’ve only ever needed honesty. And there has always been honesty in the wounds you carry; they’re raw, powerful, like rivers of emotion cascading over broken earth. I do not relish your scars, but I appreciate where they’ve been, what they’ve seen, who they’ve made you to be. And I’d rather have a damaged you than perfection in anyone else.
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“Perhaps you think it wrong that I dwell so much on the horrors, the pain, but pain is what shapes us, after all. We are creatures born of heat and pressure and grinding, ceaseless movement. To be still is to be still is to be… not alive.”
Your 20s end whenever you decide to be truly selective of those you let in your life.
My roommate is a 28 year old woman who can't pay rent on time for three months, but thinks we are under some moral obligation to accommodate her ass. This is the most expensive city in the world. We can't struggle to breathe above water and hold other adults up, too.
Girl, bye. You bought that shit in LONDON. Drink it. That city ain't cheap.
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On [‘Veep’] we have never identified party — we have just reaped so much benefit from that. Because everybody is invited … both sides of the aisle think we are making fun of the other party. … They identify with it which is super fun. I love that.
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