• Flying Squid
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    104 hours ago

    What’s funny to me is that all the people complaining that she was too dark had no problem with the fact that she was too beautiful.

    • @kameecoding
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      3 hours ago

      Well to be fair that’s a coin from thousands of years ago, even today it’s not hard to make absolutely deformed shit.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43598431

      Though I wouldn’t be surprised either if her famous beauty was widespread sarcasm that got taken seriously, and it also wouldn’t surprise me if she was actually beautiful and people wanted to demean her, like Napoleon is depicted as short even though he wasnt

      • Flying Squid
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        23 hours ago

        As far as I know, Caesar and Anthony wrote about being attracted to her intelligence, not her looks.