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She completely reformed the system in Alexandria, and Egypt at large; making it much more of a functional powerhouse. 

She did what 300 years of her ancestors couldn’t: Managed to get the support of both the Greek AND Egyptian subjects she ruled.

There is a sculpture that has been identified as her, through comparisons to coins minted under her rule, that proves beyond a doubt that she wasn’t particularly beautiful.

Even after Cleopatra died her influence on those around her lived on: her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, was the only child of Cleopatra’s to live to adulthood, and she became queen of Mauretania along with her husband Juba and it’s believed they married for love, which was extremely rare for that time period, especially among nobles/the upper class. Not only did she grow up in the house of her mother’s worst enemy and technical murderer, but she still went on to become a queen who possessed an equal amount of political power as her husband, even having her face minted on coins on the opposite side of his likeness, showing they were equal rulers.

I will be blocking these people as well. I just want to respond to this right now to end it here and to let the people who are vulnerable know. Also, I really fucking dislike it when terfs hijack posts about misogyny and posts in general tbh so please block so that you don’t inadvertently lead to spreading a post in terf circles.

Now I will talk about the racist rhetoric in alezrha’s posts in this reblog chain:

Right so first off I’m going to link my response to your addition to this post: http://lilquill.tumblr.com/post/183749886008/fayesterling-lilquill-alezrha so that people have context and can understand what is going on.

Okay listen if you’re making a point about women not needing to be beautiful and describing a woman as not conventionally attractive it’s super fucking bad of you to spotlight her curly hair and hooked nose. I already explained the racism and antisemitism inherent in what you said in the reblog chain in the post linked above.

You could have picked other goddamn features. You could have brought up the eye bags, which Faye talks about in that reblog chain, as a trait that doesn’t fit our ideal beauty standards today. And yet you picked curly hair and a hooked nose instead lmao!

If you want to talk about eurocentric beauty standards, you literally need to talk about racialized misogyny SPECIFICALLY. Yet in that reblog of yours, you say that this discussion about your racist descriptions is bad because it’s taking the spotlight off of a discussion of misogyny. Your complete inability to talk about intersectionality at all, choosing to wave off your own racist framing of Cleopatra’s features and act as if a woman of color like myself is somehow derailing this post by addressing the racialized misogyny present in this conversation, is really terrible. And you don’t even have the decency to apologize when it is explained politely to you. You call our comments “weird” when we say we are uncomfortable with the way you talk about her features and you don’t even have the decency to apologize.

I don’t care whether or not you personally find the features ugly. But it is your insinuation of these features making her less than beautiful, regardless of your personal beliefs, and ESPECIALLY the fact that so many white women are reblogging your addition, that is incredibly troubling to me as a woman of color. And then you making this addition, where you say that a conversation about racism in the way you describe Cleopatra’s features is “subjecting a powerful woman of GREAT importance to the superficiality of debating over her looks,” is very dismissive of the very present racism in the lives of women of color.

Also, if you’re white, it’s literally not your fucking place to describe curly hair and a hooked nose as less than beautiful traits. If you’re white than what you said is even more blatantly fucking racist!

But it doesn’t surprise me that you’re incompetent at discussions of intersectionality and racialized misogyny because you’re a fucking terf, and terf rhetoric hates women of color lmao!

Proof of alezrha, destroymales, totallyradicalblog, and hating-alison-ashley being terfs is below the cut. CONTENT WARNING FOR TRANSPHOBIA AND ESPECIALLY TRANSMISOGYNY.

a) dwarves don’t share the gender binary that humans use, heterosexual versus homosexual is meaningless to them

b) gnomes have such a predilection towards illusions that gender is primarily based on presentation. because of consistent interaction with humans, they tend towards visually hetero relationships just for sake of public ease but gnomes all know gender is an ilusion

c) halflings are super community oriented. they would be incredibly accepting of homosexuality because frowning on someone for liking a particular gender is counter to community building

d) goblins don’t believe in sexuality they believe in food

e) orcs are 100% butch lesbians and bears. they are totally gay with a small side of being attracted to muscles and soft hairy bellies “but if they’re all gay how do they reproduce?” magic rituals motherfucker it’s a fantasy world

f) tieflings never have a predominant culture and tend to ascribe to human values, with a bit of “i’m already an outcast, so anything goes”. i don’t wanna say tieflings are super gay just because there is a lot of baggage that comes with the evil demon race being super gay but tieflings are super gay

g) dragonborn carry a lot of draconic values, one of the most notable being vanity. if a dragonbron is gay, they will literally be the embodiment of that “move, i’m gay” video. taboo my ass just try to stop that dragonborn, they’ll show you the meaning of flaming