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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Wow, I... don't like this? I generally don't mind characters being revamped to be more inclusionary but there's something about the Joan of Arc story specifically that feels like the subversive womanness is really important/inherent, making her nonbinary weakens this theme.
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Shakespeare’s Globe
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Our new play I, Joan shows Joan as a legendary leader who uses the pronouns ‘they/them’. We are not the first to present Joan in this way, and we will not be the last. We can't wait to share this production with everyone and discover this cultural icon. bit.ly/GlobeIdentityI
A graphic of a person who is covered in dirt and grime, their chest is bound and they wring their hands. A chainmail helmet covers their eyes. They stand in front of a purple background with text above their head reading I, JOAN in large white letters.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
Can't you make like, Marie Antoinette or Helen Keller or Frida Kahlo nonbinary? It feels like the power of their storylines/archetypes/characters are *way* less dependent on their gender than Joan of Arc.
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@Aella_Girl
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@zorangecats
idk this is kinda an extreme example but it feels like making rosa parks hispanic if you don't like it, you don't have to see it, she's not being stolen and depictions of her as a black woman will undoubtedly continue but it still feels like it's insulting the story?
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Alan
@SchnittkeAlfred
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@Aella_Girl
There's a Kurt Vonnegut novel called Bluebeard's Castle in which the hero, while trying to convince his far-right, sexist mentor that women have contributed to history, cites Joan of Arc. His mentor replies by saying Joan of Arc was a man. Now it's being done for real by the left
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