Anonymous wrote:Like Romeo and Juliet, it could be the romance between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings was probably genuine but was condemned by wider society at the time.
In that way, Jefferson was likely far ahead of his time, was a true believer that love is love unconditionally, and he was actually quite progressive.
Anonymous wrote:Who did you make sweet love to tonight?
GEORGE WASHINGTON
JOHN ADAMS
THOMAS JEFFERSON
JAMES MADISON
JAMES MONROE
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
I suppose I hopped on Jefferson.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Like Romeo and Juliet, it could be the romance between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings was probably genuine but was condemned by wider society at the time.
In that way, Jefferson was likely far ahead of his time, was a true believer that love is love unconditionally, and he was actually quite progressive.
Have you read Romeo and Juliet? Because they were young teenagers who died because of infatuation. It was not "true love". They were impulsive teenagers surrounded by stupid adults who helped them make terrible choices. Shakespeare makes that very clear.
In addition, the progressive belief about love is that it needs to be given freely. When one person is an adult enslaver, and the other person is an enslaved child, there is no freedom, and therefore there is no consent. Regardless of how Hemmings felt, she was not able to consent, and it was rape.
Anonymous wrote:I’d worry about Washington’s breath with those wooden teeth. Well, they probably all smelled bad. Where in the world did this question come from?!
Back in my 20s I had a dream Bill Clinton was hiding under my bed and presumably had just been in it till he heard someone in the house. This was pre-Monica Lewinsky.
Anonymous wrote:George is my man.
He was tall and strong, apparently a great dancer and clearly had a take-charge attitude, so he might have been a decent lover.
Bonus: he was probably sterile, so no worries about an unwanted pregnancy.
Anonymous wrote:Theoretically John Adams, but I wouldn’t do that to Abigail. She deserves better
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Like Romeo and Juliet, it could be the romance between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings was probably genuine but was condemned by wider society at the time.
In that way, Jefferson was likely far ahead of his time, was a true believer that love is love unconditionally, and he was actually quite progressive.
I hope you're trolling. If you think that the romance between an over 40 year old man and a 14 year old slave child was some new age, ahead of it's time romance, you're being ridiculous at best. There's no period of time where that's acceptable. Much less so when the child is a captive threatened with being sold or killed if she refused him.
You have no way of knowing that .
Anonymous wrote:Like Romeo and Juliet, it could be the romance between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings was probably genuine but was condemned by wider society at the time.
In that way, Jefferson was likely far ahead of his time, was a true believer that love is love unconditionally, and he was actually quite progressive.