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*ETA: Of course, it would be hilarious if somebody did prove that Jean was trans, since she's such an idol of the FN; let's see those fascists heads explode 🙂
For a French icon, they'll find some sort of justification to make it okay (in their ideology, obviously it's okay to any rational human) I'm sure. I made sure my voting records were okay the other day for next year's election; feels like another one of those elections you kind of have to vote in.
atz
withered_preacher
Nah, just a shit crowd
The captioning of François Chifflart's painting invites us to contemplate the history and a set of ahistorical notions side by side.
Jeanne d'Arc suffered what was by any reasonable judgment extra-judicial killing, in the end, for the heretical crime of cross-dressing, even though she had a well-founded defence to the charge.
It can easily be argued that she was only on trial in the first place because of her sex. Therefore, in some alternative history where heresy trials still exist but trans rights are well established, Jeanne can avoid the pyre by being treated as a man.
If the joke has a flaw, it is that there is no evidence that Jeanne identified as male*, and even less that she would have used a pretence of being something she was not in order to avoid trouble.
The risk with such a joke is that it is open to a malicious misinterpretation, that people claim a trans identity in order to obtain some advantage. Instead of being seen for what it is, which is an attack on patriarchal, misogynistic religious zealotry, it is misread as an attack on the authenticity of the trans experience.
*ETA: Of course, it would be hilarious if somebody did prove that Jeanne was trans, since she's such an idol of the FN; let's see those fascists heads explode 🙂