> ... the only difference we have with our medieval European counterparts is that we come up with new beauty standards that everyone is supposed to live up to much more quickly. So, hooray?
https://going-medieval.com/2023/06/20/on-the-11000-virgin-martyrs-iconography-and-beauty-standards/#more-5716
#EleanorJanega on #GoingMedieval #BeautyStandards and #InstagramFace? #OnceAndFutureSex

> ... unfathomable secret that could not be solved by paying attention to your partner(s) during sex? WHO KNOWS. IT IS SO MYSTERIOUS.
> Obviously, there is a lot to unpack here, and like me, you may be sick to death of hearing about the whole goddamn thing, because who isn’t fucking tired of the patriarchy? (I’m weary. So very weary.)
https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/on-women-and-desire/
#EleanorJanega #OrgasmGap #WearyOfPatriarchy #OnceAndFutureSex #GoingMedieval #Medievalist

> ... unfathomable secret that could not be solved by paying attention to your partner(s) during sex? WHO KNOWS. IT IS SO MYSTERIOUS.
> Obviously, there is a lot to unpack here, and like me, you may be sick to death of hearing about the whole goddamn thing, because who isn’t fucking tired of the patriarchy? (I’m weary. So very weary.)
https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/on-women-and-desire/
#EleanorJanega #OrgasmGap #WearyOfPatriarchy #OnceAndFutureSex #GoingMedieval #Medievalist

> The Scientific advancements of the seventeenth-century and beyond were not something that occurred because an apple fell on #Newton’s head. They were a part of a long tradition of scientific thought and inquiry that people just haven’t bothered learning about because the history is too complex for smug #ThinkTank guys to wrap their heads around in five minutes between power lunches.
https://going-medieval.com/2020/07/02/if-youre-going-to-talk-about-the-dark-ages-you-had-better-be-right/
#EleanorJanega #MiltonFriedman #InvestorGuy

> History, we are told, is something created by GREAT MEN who go out and CHANGE THE WORLD, usually by doing huge and horrific levels of violence.
> That is not, in fact the case. More particularly it isn’t the case if you are me and are a social historian.
https://going-medieval.com/2023/01/17/on-women-who-talk-and-also-write-books/
#EleanorJanega #Medieval #Women