Chaos... to be continued

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This simply not true. In Hollywood maybe but not in Russia, not in Europe, and least of all in history. She is called The Great for a reason. This is absolutely a stupid statement to make. The ignorance it show is astonishing. WOW!
I would argue that there are a good number of people, at least in the US, who know nothing else about her aside from this rumor and its use in dirty jokes. I would not argue that it has "stained" her legacy for anyone who actually knows the history, but I do think it says a lot about how women who embrace their sexuality have been perceived throughout the past couple centuries, especially women who take positions of power from men.
 
I am so lost. I am happy to say I'm attempting to learn German. I have no idea if that's relevant to any of this conversation 🤣
I'm coming in about ten pages in... and all I can say is I'm attempting to learn German too! :D There are strangely a lot of German or trying to learn German speakers on Lit, I've discovered.
 
I am so lost. I am happy to say I'm attempting to learn German. I have no idea if that's relevant to any of this conversation 🤣
Awesome! How do you like it?? My mother tongue is English but I speak fluent German ❤️
I'm coming in about ten pages in... and all I can say is I'm attempting to learn German too! :D There are strangely a lot of German or trying to learn German speakers on Lit, I've discovered.
I agree! There are lots of German speakers on lit. 😍
 
I would argue that there are a good number of people, at least in the US, who know nothing else about her aside from this rumor and its use in dirty jokes. I would not argue that it has "stained" her legacy for anyone who actually knows the history, but I do think it says a lot about how women who embrace their sexuality have been perceived throughout the past couple centuries, especially women who take positions of power from men.
Yes, I have to agree with you here. I am probably missing half the argument as all the audio, but it most definitely was a purposeful attack that had consequences then, and still today, given the historical knowledge of the average. Of course, all women of power have accusations of some sort of sexual deviancy. It is like the standard plan B, too intimated to come head on, invent something about her sex life instead. I would think, even absent historical knowledge, life knowledge would have everyone rolling their eyes as such an overplayed tactic, but even then some still buy in.
 
I am a Viking descendant too!
The Vikings got around
If you have any roots in Northern Europe, odds are you have a taint of Viking in you.
All that rampaging pillaging and raping.. and more raping. Boys will be boys.
“No” didn’t quite cut it back then, and there was no #metoo movement. Men have been civilized by womankind, well, we are getting there.
Don’t look at Ukraine at the moment!!
 
Too be fair, to Americans, the rumors about Catherine were started over there! Americans are just a tad undereducated and really really REALLY susceptible to fake news.
 
Awesome! How do you like it?? My mother tongue is English but I speak fluent German ❤️

I agree! There are lots of German speakers on lit. 😍
I am finding it very good when I stick to it. I'm using DuoLingo and it recently updated, changing the order of everything and now I'm having to start from the beginning as I have no idea where I'm up to 🤔
 
I am finding it very good when I stick to it. I'm using DuoLingo and it recently updated, changing the order of everything and now I'm having to start from the beginning as I have no idea where I'm up to 🤔
Ugh, me too… I’m at different levels on every unit practically. I’ve been trying to get them all to the same level, but it’s taking forever 😂
 
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