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Don’t Blame The Queen, Don’t Blame Hillary Clinton
Would it be possible to make men accountable for their actions in the world?
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It’s more honest to have a love/hate relationship with history
To save some time, let’s first discard the notion that anyone saying something nice about a well-hated woman is an enemy.
The monarchy was a colonializing aggressor. Hillary Clinton made mistakes. Ghislaine Maxwell is a ghoul. Both Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger believed in Eugenics.
Yet, I think it matters to see not just villains, but why we have them.
It matters to see, that also, for every “horrible” woman there is often a vile man who sneaks off a little bit more into the shadows as all the attention and opprobrium gets splattered all over the vile woman.
Whatever her faults, Queen Elizabeth likely never, ever, even groped a girl much less raped one as Prince Andrew likely has. Ditto with Hillary Clinton. None but her victims know about Ghislaine, but we expect that Jeff Epstein violated a lot more flesh in the flesh.