![]() She has over a dozen operas and several dozen movies to her name. ![]() Exhibit A is Joan of Arc, simultaneously canonized by Pope Benedict XV and the women’s suffrage movement sometime mascot of 19th-century French republicans, 20th-century Vichy France and the 21st-century National Front. ![]() Stripped of truth, deprived of personhood, they can be claimed and used by anyone for any purpose. These women - and they’re almost always women - become the public’s playthings in perpetuity. For the lucky (or unlucky, depending on your point of view), with the emptiness comes the possibility of a long afterlife as one of the blowup dolls of history. It feeds off its host - infecting, extracting, consuming its victim until there’s nothing left but an empty husk. ![]()
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