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⌈ Secret Post #3172 ⌋

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Who cares if it's just 72% accurate, it's not like they're trying to make Victorian of the year or something. This is like cosplayer elitism, like if you aren't a good fan of something and don't wear every last accessory, you did it wrong.

Less criticizing her for not being authentic enough, than calling her on what they perceive as hypocrisy: "So you want to live in the past? You think it was better back then? Okay, missy, no antibiotics, tetanus shots, tampons, high-tech emergency medical interventions, or voting for you! How do you like your bygone era now?"

I think you can cherrypick parts of the past for fun and as a personal project, without taking it 100% seriously. Like, I listen to Viking metal and enjoy some of the imagery etc, but I don't actually want to *live* like the Norse, lol, I'd probably *die* like the Norse pretty quick. If people want to cosplay the romantic aspects of Victoriana that's great, but if they start insisting that everything was way back better then like that tumblr Tory wanker, I'm gonna laugh at them.

You said it all so much better than me. What I got from the article is that she enjoys the better parts of it. People would sideeye her just as much for trying to live 100% by the bad parts if that was what she focused on, so there's no harm in focusing on the good as long as she's not professing that's all there ever was.

It sounds as if she's also defending some aspects of the era, and I think that's understandable: this is also an age of activism against slavery and for women's rights, an age that saw the birth of socialism and quantum theory, the age of Darwin and Edison. Books were cheaper and more widely available than ever before, literacy was becoming more widespread, and even the fashions that our Luddite blogger loves so much were becoming accessible to a much wider public than ever before. Everyone keeps saying that the standards of gracious living we think of as "Victorian" were only available to the wealthiest, but IIRC, standards of living were improving even for the poor.

Oh yeah it wasn't the worst, it was a fascinating time of change leading to today! I suppose I'm talking about rose-tinted brass-goggled people who might think it was all better and more ~authentic than today (in terms of rights, health and wealth).

"Rose-tinted brass-goggled people" is a beautiful phrase.

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