Referring to Aemilia Lanyer who was an excellent poet & some think Shakespeare's 'dark lady' but consensus is no.https://twitter.com/sjw_nonsense/status/856326329095995392 …
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Helen Pluckrose Retweeted SJW Nonsense
Referring to Aemilia Lanyer who was an excellent poet & some think Shakespeare's 'dark lady' but consensus is no.https://twitter.com/sjw_nonsense/status/856326329095995392 …
Helen Pluckrose added,
She was Italian & of Jewish descent. Fairly sure she wasn't black. I like her coz she's v sarcastic abt Christian gender roles.
She did publish her work. And it was sold at St Paul's. She didn't die in poverty. She didn't like men much & scared a few of them.
On the remote chance anyone is interested in an argument she based her empowered model of Christian feminine wisdom on St Monica of Hippo...
When Shakespeare's contemporaries described ppl as 'black', they were usually talking abt their hair.This cld be herpic.twitter.com/X0NrQBbO4n
If she was secretly a believing Jew, her poem takes on an interesting twist coz its argument is to stop blaming women for Eve eating an...
...apple when it was men who killed the son of God. Of course, it was Jews who were blamed for that & persecuted.
Even tho it was also regarded as heresy to think that anything cld have saved Christ when he'd intended to die.
But there's no reason to think she wasn't genuinely Christian. If anything, her poems cld have got her in trouble for being a bit Catholic.
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