As someone who studies kingship and the idea of rulers to my fellow scholars who also study this stuff: why this incessant and persistent twee woobification of kings and queens?
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Honestly this seems not much different than modern monarchism and the conservative deference to monarchy.
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And you could say this is a series of subtweets, but it’s from over a long period of observing this behaviour on here.
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And they shouldn’t. No one should be deified.
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I think some portion of this, especially with female rulers, is about gender. Unless you invest a lot of time and study, women rulers are likely some of the only famous women you encounter. It feels good to point to powerful women as evidence that women have leadership capacity.
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And then this also gets all tangled up in "girl power" stuff. We want curricula to be diverse and we want girls to know that they are more than wives and mothers to be, so we default to a simple gloss of historical women because the nuances can get kind of depressing.
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