Ma Jun: New China Series-Apple Computer No.2 (2012)

Anyway, if you read marriage certificates from church records, a full 85% of first marriages for young women were around 18-19 years old. The rest skewed higher, into the early twenties, with only a few being below that age and only one in a thousand was younger than 16. 

The age of puberty has declined over the centuries as girls get better nutrition, as well, so throughout the middle ages the age at which a girl could expect her first period was around 16, where modern girls often get it much younger. 

The idea that women in earlier ages were married and mothers in their early teens is a myth. Marriages of children were usually only between noble families, and made for political reasons, or creepy old bastards who wanted a child-wife and could get away with it because they were rich and powerful. They often would point to the fact that the Roman elite did the same thing as justification. The Romans, of course, would point to the Greeks doing the same thing as justification, the Greeks pointed at the Assyrians, and so on back through the ages. 

It was considered disgusting by normal people then and still is. 

This myth is still brought out and touted by sick fuckers. Know it for what it is; a falsehood. 

and btw, if you claim trans women infringe upon feminism, you’re not a fucking feminist.

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller

Helen Stratton, illustration for 'The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen', 1899

Candyman (1992) dir. Bernard Rose

Taiwan’s parliament has become the first in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage 

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also speaking of jakub różalski this painting of his is my FAVOURITE like yes girl snitch on the knight!!! get his ass!!!

pink princess

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