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29 Mar

But Sobieski’s cavalry charge at Vienna gets only one sentence in Davies history

But Sobieski’s cavalry charge at Vienna gets only one sentence in Davies history

In “Quicksilver” by Neal Stephenson, there is a scene whereJohn Sobieski, King of Poland, kneels in prayer before leading his magnificent cavalry in a charge to route the Turks as they laid seige to Vienna in 1683, the proverbial “Barbarians at the Gates”. It is an electric image and always left me wondering where Sobieski and the Poles fit in historically and why they helped at Vienna.

Nevertheless, he takes the reader through the canon, and makes it fascinating

In “Heart of Europe: The Past in Polands Present”by Norman Davies, I learned that Sobieski was a powerful King In “Quicksilver” by Neal Stephenson, there is a scene whereJohn Sobieski, King of Poland, kneels in prayer before leading his magnificent cavalry in a charge to route the Turks as they laid seige to Vienna in 1683, the proverbial “Barbarians at the Gates”. It is an electric image and always left me wondering where Sobieski and the Poles fit in historically and why they helped at Vienna.

Davies writes for historians who already know the history and want to get down to the analysis

In “Heart of Europe: The Past in Polands Present”by Norman Davies, I learned that Sobieski was a powerful King of Poland and that he was fanatical in fighting the Turks, to the extent that he allowed the Muscovites and Prussians at his borders to grow strong and eventually remove his kingdom from the map with the help of theAustrians whom he had rescued at Vienna.

29 Mar

Gwyneth Paltrow and Jada Pinkett Smith say porn is harmful to women. These female adult-content creators disagree

Gwyneth Paltrow and Jada Pinkett Smith say porn is harmful to women. These female adult-content creators disagree

Gwyneth Paltrow and Jada https://hookupswipe.com/ios-hookup-apps/ Pinkett Smith dissed porn last week when the two sat down for a discussion on Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk, with the host saying it “has really messed us up” and that “the woman’s pleasure doesn’t matter, it’s not even thought about.” Paltrow, meanwhile, noted porn is “doing such a disservice” to women and young girls.

Now their opinions are prompting backlash from at least one camp – that of women who are makers of feminist, pro-sex adult content.

“I get very frustrated when people use the word ‘porn’ like it’s one big homogenous mass – that’s like using the word ‘literature’ to say it’s all the same,” says Cindy Gallop, founder and CEO of Make Love Not Porn, a social platform that “is not a competitor to porn” but “an utterly unique and very badly needed counterpoint to porn.” The landscape of porn, she tells Yahoo Life, “is like the landscape of literature, with just as many genres and subgenres.”

Adds Erika Lust, Swedish indie adult-film director, “Porn is not a monolithic entity – it’s part of a discourse on sexuality, sex and gender and it mirrors our society.” Or at least it should, she notes.