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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This is an honest question. I think that you can have a favourite ruler inasmuch as the one you find the most interesting. But I do not understand this attitude towards people of immense privilege whose social class was entirely arbitrary.
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And based on perpetuating the false ideology that certain people have the right to rule, and the very real consequence of murder and war to achieve power.
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Why this constant perspective of stanning queens? Eleanor of Aquitane would not be your friend or mine.
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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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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Good points- maybe it’s based in some cases on the culture of deference which simply permeates some societies and its history -or given its Twitter it’s simply transferring those old gushing interviews with pop stars & questions like what’s your favourite colour etc
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Maybe. I think the mystique of royalty evidently still excites a lot of people. But it goes beyond even treating them like celebs. This sort of treating queens like feminist icons and stuff.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
There is a penchant for treating the past as the present and not as the past where they did things differently... I suppose
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