Catherine the Great with Dana Schwartz
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The Signs of a Fake Historical Thing
A lot of fake sounding stuff happens every day. I would say that if it's about a woman being ostentatiously useless, that is always going to fit someone's agenda. People are always going to find reasons to need to render female rulers apparently incompetent. And there ar, if you're motivated to liris, more likely to. So i think maybe one of the markers of a afake historical thing that's caught on is if it's rhetorically useful. Ya, let them eat cake is like, philosophically useful thing to have a name for.
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