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Quote of the Day: Reconciling All Europe
“Je mettrais plutôt toute l’Europe d’accord que deux femmes.” — Louis XIV de France et Navarre
For those who don’t read French, a loose translation might be, “I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.” Of course, when he said it, most of Europe was run by men.
Ah, human nature never changes.
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Nietzsche might say that in both cases, only ruthless, unquestionable conquest can effect a sufficient shock to unify their interests. What this amounts to in practice I don’t really know. I leave it to less delicate imaginations than mine, Arahant’s, and I’m sure the gentle reader’s.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. FIFY
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Why don’t women get along with each other?
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One good quote deserves another. Here is C.S. Lewis on why the man should be head of the household, which may or may not cover the case that Louis 14 had in mind:
You can read more of the context here, which is a web page I found when I googled for that quote.
Is it that way in African or Arab societies?
I believe the great American philosopher Al Swearengen had more to say than Nietsche about these matters.
Got a youtube quote?
Yeah, but I’d rather try touching the moon than slipping them past the CoC.
I don’t know, but I don’t know why it would be any different, given that biological reproduction works the same for all of us.
H’mmm, I have always heard this, like Oscar Wilde’s “Women never call each other “sister” until they have called each other a great many other things first!”
I’ve led a charmed life, I reckon, happily avoiding the mean-girl atuff. While I have in some couples observed, as P.G. Wodehouse woulda put it, that “the f. of the s. is more d. than the m”, it’s not the case with me ‘n’ my mate. O I can be fierce, but he would stand at the mouth of our den menacing all comers!
The ladies Louis was surrounded with were in a deadly battle for precedence, for his favor and that of his court. What one gained, another. must necessarily be losing.
But do women truly and in general, feel that way about each other, as a default position?
I’m really humbly asking. I’ve always kinda preferred the company of the gents.
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IF this is cliché is true, I think it may in part br the kind of thing you see among any class of people that feels disadvantaged: they develop distinctions and prejudices among themselves, sort of a caste system, even though people outside their group don’t notice the distinctions. Lord I thank thee that I am not as that woman..
Maybe the millennial girls will change this, taking each other to parties as a “plus one “, adopting that “I will not be afraid of women” song as their anthem.