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Thank you We sneak Veronica franco what ideas did frank

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go fight for it Alas shmoop when men think they

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know how women should behave they're wrong So she also

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she comes from a line of powerful women Her mother

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was also a cortisone She grew up in this world

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in which she was surrounded by unattached women who were

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making their own money and were extremely well educated You

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know so she's like a very classic early feminist saying

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i have the right to determine my own future Women

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are just a smart as men Women can be really

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articulate Wonderful She was actually so successful at this such

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a good cortisone that she liaised with king henry Wow

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So she really climbed up that ladder again This is

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like it speaks to what a course and was at

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the time It wasn't just the bimbo It wasn't just

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someone who was attractive and brainless which is often what

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we think of today is like the prostitute type even

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though i would say that's not true either Carson's beauty

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was directly a product of their education of their ability

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to turn It sounds as though she was also so

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complex And what she was saying is women like men

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you can have it either way way be strong but

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we could be frail we can love and we can

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be loved but we can hurt and we can be

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hurt she was just arguing for the full range of

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human complexity Young women When we condemn these men who

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are always telling women howto live we often don't pay

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attention to the fact that it also limits what men

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are and what men can do Men have to be

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in charge and women have to follow like men have

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to make decisions women have to not make decisions and

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veronica franco is actually trying to make it even for

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both right so this benefits not just within but also

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men in a sense right that like men also could

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be frail Then also khun b loves that men can

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be the submissive partner Where did courtesans received their beauty

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from How did franco want society to view women hot

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and franco portray men in her arguments Match point Veronica 00:02:06.52 --> [endTime] franco one society zero

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