>I don't understand what went wrong. pls don't tell me you're serious
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Replying to @CedricOfEn @whalefishery
I.e.: prostitutes & actresses were originally same class because all actresses made most of their money as whores
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @whalefishery
I get that. I'm meaning "Don't tell me you don't understand how actors came up in status."
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Replying to @CedricOfEn @whalefishery
I can rattle lists of what actresses have that contributes to status generally but pre-modern actors had those too
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @whalefishery
status. This coincidences with some other things too of course.
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Replying to @CedricOfEn @whalefishery
But in 17th-19th c. there were actresses (& singers & probably other performers) who were nationally famous whores
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @whalefishery
The places of entertainment still weren't really the soft and sacred places of today. While I'll give that the
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more recent transition is more complex, I think that my general point is the core of it.
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Replying to @CedricOfEn @whalefishery
It could be one part. Or changing attitudes towards sex; marketing actresses as brands (sanitizing life story);
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... more movement by children of upper classes into the arts; collapse of traditional aristocracy & status system;
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...total judaization of culture; feminism/mass-mkt female consumers affecting status/prestige; many possibilities
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