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ophelia
03 Saturday Aug 2013
Posted in Illustration and art
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03 Saturday Aug 2013
Posted in Illustration and art
Got to dig women who dare murky, little ponds – and can look good and act seductive while doing it.
Later…
Yeah, poor Ophelia. I read somewhere that Victorian medical science (or what passed for it) would diagnose women with Opheliaism if they exhibited symptoms as described in the play, which I suppose is a lovely example of fiction dictating real life.
Too funny…to be a woman then was to be diagnosed with some psycho-physiological crime, if they opened their mouth for anything other than oral sex. Doing research for torture devices for a story I came across those scolds muzzles, or whatever they were. What kind of mind…
Later…
yikes! i had never heard of that term before so i looked it up: “a brank’s bridle was often locked to the face of women accused of being witches, shrews and scolds.” locked to the face? that’s … fuckin’ insane! I suppose they didn’t call it the Dark Ages for nothing. it just shows you that any time period that invented the Spanish Inquisition apparently spent its off-hours coming up with endless forms of torture and public humiliation because why stop when the creative juices are flowing?