Yesterday’s Rhymes With Orange, set in ancient Egypt:
It was ever thus: work was gendered then — women’s work is domestic, men’s work is in the public sphere — and it hasn’t been ungendered yet.
It was ever thus, or ‘Twas ever thus, or ‘Twas always thus, has been a formula for some time (there’s a Shakespearean version), and eventually got the completion and thus will ever be / and always thus will be, and a context, in the script of the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society, in an exchange between the teacher John Keating (played by Robin Williams) and one of his students:
McAllister: “Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I’ll show you a happy man.”
John Keating: “But only in their dreams can men be truly free. ‘Twas always thus, and always thus will be.”
McAllister: Tennyson?
John Keating: No, Keating.
(I’ll generously take men here to be the putative generic, and re-phrase this as only in their dreams can people be truly free.) But: only in their dreams?
June 23, 2017 at 8:55 pm |
That complaining person doesn’t look particularly female to me. The only possible clue I can see is the hair, and it isn’t a very strong one.