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Cleopatra

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

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Is Cleopatra Manipulative?

Cleopatra has been painted as a drunken whore, which was coincidentally my Tinder name when I was a little bit younger. Throughout history, there's always been an obsession with sexualizing women of the Middle East because if you sexualize a woman, then she is more savage and less sophisticated than the demure Western women. And especially making her libido a male thing so she wants to consume sex at a rate that a man does not do. This is all by way of trying to demonize any woman who doesn't fit into this category. It's manipulated not sort of gendered language as well. Do we ever call kings of the past manipulative? Or do we just say powerful

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