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The most terrifying thing in the world - a teenage girl! (lemmy.nz)
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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

While she would be captured and burned at the stake by the English for the crime of wearing men’s clothing

Maintaining to-this-day the rich English tradition of caring more about gender norms than death and destruction.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Heh, funny enough, it was because it was the only charge they could actually nail her on. She absolutely humiliated the prosecutors in court by turning all their questions against them and evading their rhetorical traps with professions of piety.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 weeks ago

Maintaining the other English tradition of using the law as more of a guideline.

Also continued to this day.

And carried on by her daughter America, over moving a box of pamphlets.