Doña Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda

Doña Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda was a beautiful, 16th-century Spanish aristocrat who regrettably lost her eye in a sword fight with her father’s page. You see, even before the Age of the Internet, women had fun with swords.

See more portraits of this interesting woman here.

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C.H. writes:

Oh clearly, the woman has always been so weak. Only able to organize the entire community as the men worked, able to influence men in important ways through their own understanding of what a woman is and is able to become, being Princesses and Queens and leaders. Fighting with both written swords and actual swords, some being worshiped as goddesses, some having whole wars fought over desiring their company and love.

Weak! Pathetic! How’d you all stand yourselves?

I hope you’re picking up on the sarcasm.

Laura writes:

Western art is one, long, devastating rebuttal of feminism. Look at some of the many, many portraits of women at that spectacular art website, It’s about Time. And they say women were all weak and unappreciated? Nonsense. Sheer nonsense used to flatter women so they are easy to exploit.

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