/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8341783
>you'd think tumblr would be all for throwing off the shackles of oppression or whatever

Depends on who you're talking about on Tumblr really. Most of the French Revolutionary blogs I've followed don't like Marie Antoinette. I've seen multiple people reblog posts about things like Marie Antoinette's abused-to-death-by-revolutionaries son and say they don't feel bad for the 'fucking pampered brat' or complain that people make posts marking the death of her friend that was brutally bludgeoned to death.

I think it could be argued that the main difference is personal history. French people are more likely to be less sympathetic/caring about people from the ancien regime, regardless of their personal culpability in the wide gap between the French peasants and the aristocracy, because that's their country's history. Whereas an American would be more sensitive to the British in revolutionary America being portrayed sympathetically.

>i mean the french did go a biiiiit farther with their revolution than we did but

just a biiiiiiiiiit