#1674

The Spider from Look Outside

"Surprisingly, this thing can be an ally! In order to recruit it, you must do some #patheticmaxxing, which is the funniest thing in the world imo"

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...Unless they were prostitutes, women were excluded from coffee houses and they let their resentment be known: in An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex in 1696, an indignant Mary Astell wrote: “A coffee house habitué is someone who lodges at home, but he lives at the coffee-house. He converses more with newspapers, gazettes and votes, than with his shop-books, and his constant application to the publick takes him off all care for his private home. He is always settling the nation, yet cou’d never manage his own family.”

Astell was merely chiming with all the other wives left at home with their chores and cups of tea; in 1674 there had been the vitriolic The Women’s Petition Against Coffee, in which wives argued that their husbands were forever absent from the home and family, neglecting their domestic duties – “turning Turk”, and all for “a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water”.

South Metopes of the Parthenon in Athens 9 to 16. Drawing attributed to Jacques Carrey, 1674.

Français : Métopes sud du Parthénon d'Athènes 9 à 16. Dessin attribué à Jacques Carrey.

Source: Jacques Carrey, Temple de Minerve, à Athènes. Dessiné par ordre de Mr. Nointel Ambassadeur à la Porte. Avant que ce Temple ne fut renversé par une Bombe des Vénitiens. 1674 (Jacques Carrey, Temple of Minerva, in Athens. Designed by order of Mr. Nointel Ambassador at the Door. Before this Temple was overthrown by a Venetian Bomb. 1674)

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