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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Twitter Thread: Sex Weasels In Renaissance Art

Dr Chelsea Nichols has some interesting knowledge on the prevalence of phallic weasel symbolism in Renaissance art. Art history can be a pretty dry topic, but naturally something like a sex weasels is bound to capture our interest. Here are some Tumblr gems about history and here's an interesting tale of the art world's most loathed elitist and his bean.

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Adaptation - 10:27 LTE Dr Chelsea Nichols @museumweirdo I've posted about this before, but I'm never going to stop until the whole world knows about SEX WEASELS in Renaissance art. (A thread) Tweet your reply Q

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Text - Dr Chelsea Nichols @muse.. 1d Replying to @museumweirdo In the 16th century, it was widely believed that weasels conceived through their ears and gave birth through their mouth. This spawned a whole language of hidden sexual symbolism in art, with weasels standing in for everything from fertility talismans to phallic symbols. 21 L788 O 1,560 Doo

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Text - 10:28 LTE Q 21 2788 1,560 Dr Chelsea Nichols @muse... 1d v A 16th c portrait of a young bride wearing an ermine, sable or mink, for instance, was believed to bring good luck in helping her to get pregnant. Notice how her hand rests over her womb. Hopefully her husband knew better than to put it in her ear though... O 24 2755 ' 1,572 1

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Text - 10:28 | LTE Dr Chelsea Nichols @muse... · 1d v White weasels, on the other hand, were symbols of sexual purity, because many believed that white ermine would rather give themselves up to hunters rather than risk soiling their pristine fur in the chase. O 15 2774 ♡ 1,719

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Text - 10:29 LTE T9 Dr Chelsea Nichols @muse... 1d v Da Vinci's white ermine asserts the "purity" of his subject...the pregnant 16 year old mistress of the Duke of Milan (Leonardo's employer). The Duke belonged to a knighthood called the Order of the Ermine, so some think this muscular weasel also symbolises his virility. 14 2763 O 1,688

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Text - 10:29 LTE Dr Chelsea Nichols @muse.. · 1d In this Parmigianino portrait, Countess San Secondo grasps a jewelled weasel pelt, a symbol of her husband's success in siring three male heirs. This painting is hung next to a portrait of the Count, so his son must spend eternity staring at his father's impressive codpiece. 20 2799 O 1,662

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Text - 10:29 LTE Dr Chelsea Nichols @muse... · 1d v Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci, William Segar, Parmigianino and Lorenzo Lotto. Full attributions and more sex weasel examples on my blog The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things: Sexy weasels in Renaissance art ridiculouslyinteresting.com

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Text - 10:30 LTE Dr Chelsea Nichols @muse... · 1d v Before someone asks: in the 16th century "weasel" was a catch-all term to describe any of the long- bodied creatures in the mustelid family, such as ermine, sables, martens, ferrets or mink. The term SEX WEASEL is my invention and should be screamed loudly in art museums. Q 83 27 271 O 5,221 Amie Babineau @AmieBa... · 59m Replying to @museumweirdo and @Whoresof Yore I now want to start a band called The Sex Weasels. 1.

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Stepmom Gives Away Son's PS4, Son Rents Out Stepmom's House

Evil stepmom (Grace) should've left the PS4 out of it, but no, she went ahead and gave that valuable property away while the guy was away at college. Well, that was Grace's biggest mistake. On top of that to tell anyone that they're "too old to play video games" is just absurd. So, the guy took a pro revenge so brutal that Grace ended up getting kicked out of the house. And you know what? It sounds like that was well in accordance.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/YoungSourSwede • 351d 1 My hag of a stepmom gave away my Playstation 4 while I was away in college. So I rent out "her" house while she was on her honeymoon with her newest husband. I have been reading lots of Reddit lately, especially entitled parents, but made a new account when I came across this page. I never thought l'd actually try to contribute something! Until now Reddit has just been my guilty morning coffee read.

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Text - So here goes. I'm an only son. My mom died of ovarian cancer at only 55 five years ago. It broke my dad's heart. They had been together since college and were the same age, with my dad being a month older. I'm 22, and am about to graduate college with my degree in chemistry when the main events start to occur. I went to college on a full ride scholarship. This is important later. My dad met my now stepmom when she was my mom's nurse at the hospital where she spent her final days. My stepm

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Text - I was seventeen and old enough to sense that she was just trying to weasel her way into getting my dad's resources, but it was up to my dad if he wanted to be in a relationship with her. I was in my final year of public school and had just won a scholarship to attend college out of the country the following year. My dad mourned my mom for a year and that whole time Grace would check in on him by phone every month or so, in my opinion to scope out the possibility of sinking her hooks in hi

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Text - In my gut I didn't trust her, though. But we are Scandinavian and at least in my family the son does not tell his father what to do or even offer any opinion. Grace is from the Czech Republic if you're wondering. My father was a very successful banker during his career, and amassed quite a portfolio of wealth. l'll spare you the details, but after six months of dating, Grace and my father are married. My dad never really got over my mom though, and he was getting weaker and weaker even th

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Text - I told him I don't need anything, I'm a man and can take care of myself, but what are you even talking about dad, you're going to be around for decades yet. I did remind him that he had living sisters with children (my aunts and cousins). I also reminded him that I had a full scholarship to college so don't worry about giving me any cash. He was dead only a year later at 59. I of course have seen lots of Hollywood movies so I consider the conspiracy theory that maybe my dad's nurse wife p

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Text - Well long story short, my dad bequeathed his five bedroom house to me even though I wasn't expecting it and didn't ask for it. He gave a small endowment to each of his sisters and their children. He left about 80% of all his existing money to Grace, which amounted to several hundreds of thousands of dollars. My dad ignored me because he's generous to a fault and still gave me several tens of thousands of dollars, which were of course very useful to me. Grace tried to put on a friendly fro

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Text - Um, GROSS. She still stayed at the house though because over the last three years she had gotten used to living there and acting like she owned it. And, even though I officially owned it, I was always away at college and only visited my dad's old house once every couple of months, and even then it wasn't to see Grace, but to see my cousins who lived just a few miles away. I downplayed the fact that it was really my house, and over the months I think Grace gradually forgot that she really

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Text - I knew l'd eventually hydrogen bomb this b*tch when she started dating some new guy only five months after my dad was in the ground, and one time when I came home from college after graduating she and her new boyfriend (some sleazy looking D-bag named "Ivan" who was only a few years older than me) were acting like I was a guest in my own house and that they owned it. I played along. Grace told me she gave away my Playstation 4 to Ivan's cousin because "I'm too old to play with video games

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Text - She also said that she and Ivan were getting married because "I just can't mourn your father forever. I have to move on with life." I tell her that I graduated college and already secured employment with a local firm, and "will soon find a new place to live." She looks thrilled. Especially the part where it looks like I'll soon have a new place to live. Then in a patronizing way she tells me, "you always have a place in our house though, you are welcome to stay whenever you please." Thank

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Text - She says that is wonderful because she intends to go to her homeland to have a wedding with Ivan and afterward have her honeymoon. She assures me it's a local affair "otherwise l'd invite you, honey. And anyway I know you're so busy." I congratulate her. She asks me if I can watch the house for her. Watch my own house? Sure. What I really say is of course I will take care of the house. I am careful to not say "your house." She and her D-bag fiance (who I am 100% sure is only there for Gra

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Text - Locks? Changed. All of them. Within days, I am inundated with dozens of inquiries regarding my amazing, furnished house with fantastic views. I rent it to a wonderful young family. A barrister and his schoolteacher wife and their two preteen children. They pay me their first and last month's rent, and sign a lease for a year. I warn them about my crazy stepmom who thinks this is her house, but I present them with contact information to my lawyer (the same lawyer my dad retained) in case t

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Text - I then found a great apartment in the city near my new place of work. There I met a woman in a restaurant I frequent at night after a long workday. We have been dating six months now and are engaged to be married. Grace of course tried to shriek and cause trouble when she realized she got kicked out of MY house but my lawyer quickly shut her mouth without my having to ever speak to her garbage face again. From what I hear, her and her trash husband left the country and I assume they're bl

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Text - Speaking of money, the house that I rent out is generating so much money that I not only am able to help pay for my cousins' college, but I moved into a larger apartment of my own, together with my fiancee. I love my job but really, I could survive solely on renting my dad's old house. And to think. If Grace had only been cooler and nicer I might have let her stay at the house, just to be a good sport. And definitely if she stayed the hell out of my room. But no, she had to act all propri

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Non Canadians First Thoughts When Thinking Of Canada

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the first things that Non Canadians think of when considering Canada. Things like poutine, ice hockey, and the legal drinking age of 19 seem to be some of people's ideas of Canada. Oh, also, kindness, sweet wholesome kindness.