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[majorandre]

what happened to your twitter ?

just logged in for the first time in two years (lol) uhhhh i changed handles. if whoever asked this still cares, i’m @rogueieader on twt

[majorandre]

i can’t believe, on this day 2018 years ago, steve rogers gave birth to america

[majorandre]

so i’ve been applying to film schools and i didn’t realize one of them had a cutoff for scholarship applications at 11:59 november 1 until... 11:00 on november 1. i then proceeded to write a five hundred word summation on the life of john andré and an eight hundred word script on the execution of john andré in under an hour, while having just taken a muscle relaxer. i submitted both pieces at 11:58. then again, if you can tell the entire story while absolutely hammered, you can do anything.

[majorandre]

on this day in history, 237 years ago: head of british intelligence, john andré, was hanged as a spy in tappan, new york.

[majorandre]

I think i love your blog thx

Oh, wow, thanks! Sorry it’s not really, like… active anymore. I get notifications on it all the time, which is both funny and confusing, but I don’t really have the time to research the way I used to now that I work full-time. I have no plans on deleting it because I figure it’s a pretty good resource for anyone interested, and I still may post every so often (like now).

I realize a simple “thank you” would suffice, but I just saw this in my inbox and felt it was important to address — I’ve been meaning to for a while now, anyway. Thanks again, though!

[majorandre]

Hey, I saw your post on feminism and the AmRev, and I wondered about Lafayette. Was he a misogynist too?

Hi, sorry I’m getting to this about a million years late.

I feel the need to point out that, by modern standards of feminism and misogyny, the answer is probably yes. From an 18th century POV? There’s not really a ton of evidence either way.

Some would certainly argue that, like, him ditching his pregnant wife to go fight in a war that had nothing to do with him was pretty shitty, but I’d honestly chalk it up to him being a reckless youth moreso than him being a misogynist.

He definitely loved Adrienne, but obviously that’s not a concrete reason for him not to be a misogynist. Lafayette never, to my knowledge, spoke out about education for women (and subjects of that nature) like some of his revolutionary compatriots did. Now, that’s not quite the same as outright misogyny, but I wouldn’t necessarily categorize him as an 18th century feminist, either.

Lafayette had three daughters, and I can’t find anything about their education written anywhere. I’m sure, given their status, that it was good, but I can’t seem to confirm whether or not they received the same level of education as Lafayette’s son did. (Two of them did, however, spend two years in prison with their father during the French revolution. So that’s something.)

Now, I may be wrong about some of this — I’m no Lafayette expert, by any means, and the research I did was inconclusive at best. I’m going to go ahead and say, overall, he probably wasn’t a misogynist by his time’s standards. I’d like to say that, given his involvement in the French abolitionist movement, as well, hopefully not? I really can’t give a definitive answer, though. Hoped this helped in some way, though!

[majorandre]

Does John Andre have any descendants? ( obviously not directly from him but..)

Nope! To my knowledge, all of his siblings died unmarried and without issue, as well, so the André line died out with his generation.

[majorandre]

Hey, I haven’t been on this blog in eighty years, but I keep getting notifs? Who keeps bringing my shit back

[majorandre]

Hiii where is your background quote from? Love your blog btw xx

Oh, thanks! It’s from Alexander Hamilton’s letter to John Laurens about the capture of John André. You can find it here.

[majorandre]

what do you call a famous english playwright when something catches him off guard?

[majorandre]

shookspeare

[majorandre]

what do you call a famous english playwright when something catches him off guard?

[heartacher]

who does polyphemus hate more than odysseus

[heartacher]

nobody

[heartacher]

guys please it’s a literature joke i need your support on this

[goddessofidiocy-deactivated2019]

[straight historian voice] they used fond language such as “my lover”, “my darling”, “i miss your arms around me”, “i wish i could marry you”, and “i miss your lips on mine”, though they were never proven to be in a relationship

[jakeyllenhaal]

are jewish people a minority? I mean it's not the 1940's anymore does anybody actually hate jews?

anti-semitism in europe 1, 2, 3

anti-semitism in france; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

anti-semitism in greece; 1, 2, 3, 4

anti-semitism in the united kingdom; 1, 2, 

anti-semitism in australia

anti-semitism in the united states

just a whole long list of anti-semitism globally

neo nazis

“one fourth of the world harbors anti-semitic sentiment”

the commonly used phrase “you dont look jewish” isnt a compliment

anti-semitic jewish stereotypes 1, 2

this exists

anti-semitism towards american jews because of the israel/gaza conflict(although many jews have nothing to do with it) and some more 

lack of representation of american jews

small list of anti-semitic famous people

offensive “jew” costume worn by a certain celebrity as a “disguise”

mel gibson 

one of the many incidents in europe (france, greece) where jewish cemeteries/memorials where vandalized

along with people of other religions (including islam, sikh, hindu, others.) jewish people dont get privileges that christian people have, meaning we, dont get guaranteed time off work/school for holidays, dont have freedom to worship without fear of judgement, wont have our faith accepted at your workplace/school, cant have a job without it being associated with your faith (“they’re a [lawyer/accountant/banker/jeweler]? well obviously, they’re jewish”), have expectations of what your career should be (“they’re jewish and they’re only working as [minimum wage job]? they should aim higher”), being referred to as “jewish” friend, the list goes on.

some extra facts just to further educate yourself on jewish people/the jewish religion:

besides israel and the united states, no other country has a jewish population more than 1%

the total amount of jewish people in the world is less than .2%

its believed if the holocaust were to never have happened, the total population currently, instead of 13 million, would be more than twice that at 32 million

the difference between zionist and jewish (israel vs jews) 1

dont bring anti-semitism into gaza/israel arguments

basic jewish beliefs

jewish holidays

jesus was jewish!

why jewish people dont believe in jesus

religious discrimination, know your rights

i could go on, but im sure you get it by now. feel free to add to this post.

[atheologist]

But can we also talk about how “being a minority” isn’t defined by how much people hate a specific group? We make up 0.2% of the world’s population and outside of Israel, the United States has the largest number (and percentage) of Jewish people and we’re STILL under 2% of the population. Antisemitism is definitely still a huge problem pretty much worldwide, but even if it wasn’t, Jews are a minority because we’re a minority. Period.

[animatedamerican]

“it’s not the 1940s anymore”

And in the 1940s it wasn’t the 1890s anymore, and in the 1890s it wasn’t the 1810s anymore, and in the 1810s it wasn’t the 1790s anymore, or the 1740s or the 1650s or the 1490s or the 1280s or the 500s or the frakking 3rd century BCE.

Antisemitism did not end with the Nazis, and it sure as hell didn’t begin with them either.

[phoukanamedpookie]

Be sure to read the links about antisemitic stereotypes and antisemitic shit people believe about Jews.

[ricamora]

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

#great now i gotta kinkshame award winning journalist anderson cooper

[saint-hemlock]

I’M SCREAMING

[majorandre]

You: fuckboy

Me, an intellectual: Zeus

[incurablenecromantic]

Old-timey dudes doing weird hokey shit is the best thing.

Case in point:

[thewinddrifter]

Second guy from the left in the foreground is Tsar Nicholas II Romanov of the Russian Empire i think.

[dat-soldier]

Yeah that’s him. Have some more pics of Nicholas II and his pals having a fun time