My favourite thing about the whole ‘no man of woman born’ thing is that it applies to a very broad church.
For example:
- People born via c-section (no man of woman born, meaning natural childbirth, aka, the Shakespeare approach)
- Women (no man of woman born, aka, the Tolkein approach)
- Non-binary types (see above)
- Aliens (no man of woman born, with the meaning of man being in the ‘mankind’ sense)
- Artificial intelligences (see above again)
- Transmen (no man of woman born, the man-ness appears to come later as gender is a social construct. Arguably borderline, I know.)
- People carried by a man (no man of woman born)
- People grown in vats (no man of woman born)
Basically, anyone who isn’t a human cisgendered male delivered via natural childbirth by a woman could kill Macbeth. (Given the equipment via science!, the child of a transwoman born via natural childbirth would still count as unable to.)
It’s odd that you can divide mankind into ‘Macbeth killers’ and everyone else, even though everyone else is in the minority, especially if aliens are real and we create AIs capable of murdering Scottish kings.
there are two genders: macbeth killers and macbeth
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The story behind The Laundress.
This is so good. -Emily
I find that hard to reconcile with how 18th century dresses had boobs practically hanging out of them. Maybe the chest wasn’t as sexualized as the ankles were back then…
I have a dim memory from back in high school… I think someone once told me that breasts were no big deal back in corsetry-and-necklines-down-to-there days, they were considered a food source for children and that’s it.
But ANKLES. Oh, GOD. ANKLES. The ANKLE was connected to the LEG, which connected to THIGHS, which hid a woman’s SECRET FLOWER. The ankle was the gateway to the secret flower, so it was considered quite a stirring sight!
I have never considered that “leg bone connected to the ankle bone” song as a sexy tune before but
