Woman suffers probable brain damage from near-fatal fever, spends over 200 years viewed as well-meaning and pleasant christian weirdo.
And then one day, her delusion is suddenly valid, and we can't write about her in normal English, but must instead use a cumbersome and overly verbose third person mess to talk about her.
The person who would become the Public Universal Friend was born on November 29, 1752, in Cumberland, Rhode Island, as the eighth child of Amy (or Amey, née Whipple) and Jeremiah Wilkinson,[b][1][2][6]:11–12 becoming the fourth generation of the family to live in America,[7] and was given the name Jemima Wilkinson after Jemima, one of the biblical Job's daughters.[8]
And just to hit home on how far we've come with this insanity, here's what her article looked like in 2013 (it's actually rational):
Most papers focused more on the preacher's ambiguous gender than on theology
i see history repeats itself, in weird ways
The Public Universal Friend rejected the ideas of predestination and election, held that anyone regardless of gender could gain access to God's light and that God spoke directly to individuals who had free will to choose how to act and believe, and believed in the possibility of universal salvation.[67][71] Calling for the abolition of slavery,[72][73][74] the Friend persuaded followers who held people in slavery to free them.[75][76] Several members of the congregation of Universal Friends were black, and they acted as witnesses for manumission papers.[75][76] The Friend preached humility[77] and hospitality towards everyone;[78] kept religious meetings open to the public, and housed and fed visitors, including those who came only out of curiosity[78] and indigenous people, with whom the preacher generally had a cordial relationship.[79] The Friend had few personal possessions, mostly given by followers, and never held any real property except in trust.
yup, real asshole here. can see why you are picking on it
Woman suffers probable brain damage from near-fatal fever, spends over 200 years viewed as well-meaning and pleasant christian weirdo.
And then one day, her delusion is suddenly valid, and we can't write about her in normal English, but must instead use a cumbersome and overly verbose third person mess to talk about her.
Honk honk.
Here's an example of the stellar prose:
And just to hit home on how far we've come with this insanity, here's what her article looked like in 2013 (it's actually rational):
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Public_Universal_Friend&oldid=536382793
So...straight people (aka, queers now) claiming to be something other than what they are, especially white girls, is nothing new.
Woman has woman moment, 1700, colorized
Have some fun with them and complain that additional citations are needed.
i see history repeats itself, in weird ways
yup, real asshole here. can see why you are picking on it