Same old story, what's the use of tears?

Hi! I’m Izzy. If you’ve been following my blog, you might know that last September I was hit by a van while out biking. I was taken to the hospital and underwent surgery to reconstruct my knee. Unfortunately, despite the surgery, my knee will never be the same, and the driver that hit me was found legally at fault. I even had to withdraw from school for the semester. A settlement is in the works, but we don’t know when we’ll see money from that- at least a year off. 

So in the meantime my family and I have been carrying the financial and emotional burden. Due to this, I no longer can afford the living costs that come with going to school in Virginia- rent, money, and supplies. I’m currently applying to get a job that will support me while I go to art school, but with no luck. 

The basics of it is I need to raise at least $300 to cover the month of May’s rent, and another $200 so I (and my two cats!) can eat. Hopefully this will get me until I can find a job. If I don’t raise this money by the end of April, I will be unable to keep my apartment,

This. The NRA doesn’t give a shit about saving lives. Who do you think ponies up the cash when they buy a politician?

Gun manufacturers.

Do you know what gun manufacturers want? Increased revenue.

Arming teachers won’t save lives, but it sure as shit will give gun manufacturers state and federal contracts they’ve never had before.

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. 

Let’s look an an egregious example, Henry the bloody VIII:

First marriage:

He was 18, Katharine of Aragon was 23.

Second marriage:

He was 40/41, Anne Boleyn, depending on which theory you believe, was anywhere between 24 to 32.

Third marriage:

He was 44, Jane Seymour was 28.

Fourth marriage:

He was 48, Anne of Cleves was 25

Fifth marriage:

He was 48, Catherine Howard, depending on which source you believe, was between 17-22. And yes, people at the time actually were squicked out by this age difference. And rightly so.

Sixth marriage:

He was 51, Catherine Parr was 31. 

Even the most notorious LECHER and WIFE MURDERER in history did not marry teenagers in at least 5 if not 6 out of 6 marriages. 

And here’s another Tudor tidbit, both Henry VII and VIII knew how traumatic and damaging it is for women marrying/having children too young. Henry VII’s mother was married at 12 and gave birth to Henry VII at 13. It caused so much damage and trauma that she never had another child after him despite being married three times.

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And as for the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville to King Edward IV, she was 27 at the time. He? Was 22. 

(Sideyes G.R.R.M)