Jacobites

[akashasheiress]

So, apparently 'Francis II' of the United Kingdom is announcing his 80th birthday. Is it just me or does it make no sense whatsoever to be a 'jacobite' in 2013?* I mean, the whole thing is based on 17c misogyny, isn't it? If they're going to use that argument I might as well argue that Mary II had every right to claim the throne ahead of her brother, James Francis Edward because we've changed the law now, after all.**

*It SHOULD have made no sense in 1688, but alas! Patriarchy.

** Besides, I'm a socialist republican.

Comments

[john_amend_all]

On the plus side, without Jacobitism we wouldn't have this amusing piece of trolling from Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk.