#janne

If I’m gonna run with Luigi Mangione as Man Boleyn I think Mane Seymour should be played by Tyler Robinson

The fundamental difference between Anne and Jane re: the way they conducted themselves with Henry imo was that Anne grew up in an expansive cosmopolitan setting with men who identified as humanists and were largely decent towards women. With the occasional exception I.E. Norfolk of course but those were on the periphery. So when Henry went full emotionally unstable manchild on her she reacted naturally, which was like, to laugh? And even if there was a meanness in that she wasn’t really falling out of love with him, she was just responding to his actions as they came. But she had no idea how seriously a personality like his was primed to treat meanness, even meanness that he provoked. Jane only knew to do anything differently because she grew up inside a small cadre of intense intimidating emotionally vulnerable men who were definitely comfortable giving her like a flick on the skull or a shout in the face or some other mildly aggressive control tactics that would’ve been considered essentially normal for their environment. So Jane never laughed at Henry! She took his every feeling 100% seriously, even behind closed doors, no matter how ridiculous or out of place they were, because that’s how you placate a guy like that. And she came into the relationship knowing that in advance. Which is ironic in part because Jane did NOT have the education Anne did. She just had the right combination of social experiences at the right time to not get executed.

“The richer [Jane] was dressed the fairer she appeared while the richer [Anne] was dressed the worse she appeared” is a wiiild quote to survive several hundred years. Jane with her moonish babyish features is pretty to her generation the way Zendaya or Lupita are pretty to ours, right, she can be believed as either a supermodel or an offputting creep depending on how you dress her. But Anne, Anne gets the treatment that all women who are considered unconventionally attractive get, where you’re supposed to stick to the neutrals and the mature stuff to offset the constant accusation of looking or being too much. They both served KOA together, Jane served Anne: when did the comparisons even start. Did they hear them. God what a mess