Bluestockings and Lovely Green Leggings

If you have green fingers, or at least an informed interest in botany and other intellectually important topics, you may be regarded as a bluestocking, particularly if you prefer not to spend all your time knitting stockings of any sort.

Perhaps you make worsted leggings or knit woollen socks or make various stuff or lovely green leggings.

Perhaps you sing songs about hosiery and climatology to a bluestocking society, possibly to the music of Handel or Vivaldi.

What is your acquaintance with the original Blue Stocking Society?

The Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee meets primarily for stimulating discussions, of course.

Perhaps you are seeking to attend a discussion regarding the life and career of Benjamin Stillingfleet, particularly with regards to his observations of glaciers.

Perhaps, however, you do not regard such a subject to be suitable for ladies.

Throughout history, unlike the admirable example of Mr Stillingfleet, egocentric male persons have prevented intelligent female persons from learning the truth about anything.  The encouragement of female curiosity, like that of small children, has often resulted in embarrassing questions being asked of egocentric men, even in the absence of adequately curious journalists.

Egocentric men tend to become aggressive when embarrassed.  They are terrified of ladies like Mary Delany, of course, unless they become deserving of the friendship of such a lady.

True friendship is, after all, the best education.  It is a relationship devoted to the appreciation of beautiful arts and the beauty of nature.  It supports mutual, moral improvement through the gentle expression of mutual affection and mutual learning, particularly through the expression of practical and creative skills.

Such friendships often provide comfort whilst confronting oppression and other impertinences.

Perhaps you prefer carnivalesque entertainments rather than intellectual discussions about glaciers, hosiery and friendship.  Perhaps you prefer gambling, binge drinking, silly small talk and political bickering rather than a serious examination of significant historical relationships and phenomena.

The Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee has, over many years, been examining the culture and history of Alpine glaciers in the context of the Compagnie della Calza, the Venetian Carnivale, the acqua alta and the Fèsta de ƚa Sènsa.

The committee has also, of course, been examining the history of impoverished scholars and other economically dependent persons.

What is your acquaintance with the history of various rebellions against stupid fashions, including political ones?

You may literally or figuratively prefer to regard yourself as a green leggings sort of person at present, particularly with the current preparations underway:

 

 


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