Boundless Enthusiasm!

Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy?

Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?

Feminists do kill joy in a certain sense: they disturb the very fantasy that happiness can be found in certain places. To kill a fantasy can still kill a feeling. It is not just that feminists might not be happily affected by the objects that are supposed to cause happiness but that their failure to be happy is read as sabotaging the happiness of others.

"Between 1500 and 1600 there were fifty-four women who published books and managed book establishments in Paris. While some of these women were substantial publishers, approximately half published for one or two years and then disappeared from view. Of those who had a longer career, fifteen were active from three to seven years, and the rest (about fifteen) exercised their profession from eight to as long as thirty-five years. 

A sampling of the women involved in printing/publish and a simple listing of the numbers of titles issued under imprints should suffice to show the diversity of their interests and their success in administering very complex businesses. One of the earliest was the widow Trepperel, who, sometimes acting alone other times collaborating with her son-in-law, produced 121 books of romances in the vernacular. 

Between 1522 and 1557, Yolande Bonhomme's business produced over two hundred scholarly and liturgical books, bibles, and books of hours. Most women continued the traditions of firms which they inherited: Charlotte Guillard produced over 160 books on the early Church Fathers and canon and Roman law; Lucrèce Dugué- active from 1593 to the first decades of the seventeenth century- continued the musical production of the Ballard firm; Catherine L'Heritier (mid-sixteenth century) carried on the classics tradition of her husband's firm; the Regnault family concentrated on popular liturgical books in Latin and the vernacular; and Nicole Pleau's firm continued to print the ordinances of the realm, a highly lucrative monopoly originally granted by royal privilege to her husband, Jean Dallier. Marie Lescalloppier, however, changed the direction of her firm from music, which her husband had printed, to religious books and the classics.

As a group women published more than 1,250 titles of the 25,000 estimated to have been published throughout the course of the sixteenth century in Paris. Thus, women as a group, either alone or in partnership, produced approximately five percent of the books in Paris in the sixteenth century, a total not insignificant when one compares it to figures for London for the same period of time. For the whole of the sixteenth century London could count only seventeen women booksellers and printers, and of these only five women actually printed books. In all, these five women brought out a total of eighty-five books, a very much smaller figure than that of their Parisian counterparts."

Because idk, man, she still has a lot going on for her in the movies that we got, she still has many very critical and important scenes. I would love if she had had more screentime, and I would love if these scenes were in the movies, but saying that three or two scenes across two movies completely change how her character is percieved feels reductive when she still got a lot going on her.

I always say Padmé isn't a badly written character, she's underused, but even then, I think what we got of her leave a very good and strong impression of who she is. In ROTS I really wish we had more about her thoughts on the pregnancy and of course the political situation and the rebellion scene, even just one more word, I really do have a beef with the movies because of this, but again, I don't see how a single extra scene makes her more compelling, but not everything else she's been doing since TPM.

All the High Republic characters I've made so far!

From left to right

Marda Ro

Matthae "Matty" Cathley

Avar Kriss

Lourna Dee

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