I was thinking of this when I wrote that comment! And I decided there was a 50% chance. But also we hadn't talked about Lafayette in salon at the time I was talking to him, so Lafayette wasn't on my mind.
To be fair, as we've discussed before, a lot of this is the terrible American approach to history in school.
True facts, but it was a movie aimed at Americans, right? I might also add that my wife is Brazilian, and they don't teach them about Hadrian's sexuality there either. ;) Also, one of her reactions was, "Well, how do we know he didn't *also* have mistresses? They're not mutually exclusive!" Me: "You have to be as well-read as Selena to know what the evidence for that is." ;)
Neither E nor her classmate had ever heard the word
She's...12? There is no way I had heard that word at that age, in or out of school. That was high school at best.
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I was thinking of this when I wrote that comment! And I decided there was a 50% chance. But also we hadn't talked about Lafayette in salon at the time I was talking to him, so Lafayette wasn't on my mind.
To be fair, as we've discussed before, a lot of this is the terrible American approach to history in school.
True facts, but it was a movie aimed at Americans, right? I might also add that my wife is Brazilian, and they don't teach them about Hadrian's sexuality there either. ;) Also, one of her reactions was, "Well, how do we know he didn't *also* have mistresses? They're not mutually exclusive!" Me: "You have to be as well-read as Selena to know what the evidence for that is." ;)
Neither E nor her classmate had ever heard the word
She's...12? There is no way I had heard that word at that age, in or out of school. That was high school at best.