[ SECRET POST #5006 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5006 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's not just Anne Boleyn either. The weird way they kept talking/singing about Jane Seymour was kinda questionable as well - like she was somehow lesser for allegedly having been content with marrying Henry and having a child and the way they kept low-key ridiculing her with her self-centred crying about never seeing her son grow up. Because that's probably unfeminist or something.

Also wasn't a huge fan of the whole House of Holbein thing where they basically implied that the only reason a woman (and only a woman) could have ever had for cosmetics and beauty treatments was because she was forced into it by men and marriage prospects. Way to go about erasing the agency women had to actually follow beauty trends of their own volition.

[(Anonymous)]

The reason they keep dismissing Jane in the show is because the competition is specifically about who had the worst time with Henry. So Jane insisting her troubles were as bad as any of the others' is patently ridiculous. However, the show's twist is that the whole competition was about how comparing the Queens in itself is shitty and wrong, and the catty attitudes between the women is a part of that. It's why when they reimagine their lives at the very end, Jane is still happily a mother (and possibly even still married to Henry) and that's shown to be completely fine.

And House of Holbein isn't exactly wrong to point out the horrific things women have done to themselves to be attractive, often egged on by other women.