I know exactly what I said.
... Looks at the list of officers you can take...
Why the hell would you want to march on paris? To coup the government again?
I mean... you can totally do that. Hell you can even straight up abandon that objective for different ones.
We have understood that. But we also know that it is going to be a foreign land were talking in Therese' eyes.
Well... If it prevents us from having to go to the deathtrap that is Egypt.
There are much saner and more productive ways we can use out force... We also literally just saw a coup less then three months ago... another might be taken the wrong way.
When has hypocrisy stopped anyone in power?
I'm pretty sure the comment was made more about the quest itself and its tone, rather than Therese having views that are about 2 centuries in the future for the mainstream of her time.
I don't think there's much risk of that, considering thus far both the IC perspective and that of the questers is "this is a terrible idea, we shouldn't be going here at all".
Except that we're not trying to "civilize" a nation. We are trying to expand the influence of France, through military means.
Therese thinks this entire plan is a bad idea. But now she's the captain of this sinking ship, and she must make due.
You think the Brits were in India to civilize them and not to expand their influence? You think the Americans stealing the lands off the natives weren't for theirs either? Bringing "civilization" and expanding your country's influence at the expense of another's has always gone hand in hand, one is always gonna be used to justify the other.
Yes, that is probably going to happen or at least be mentioned by someone, given the time period. But again, I wouldn't expect Therese's or the questers opinions to be supportive of the matter, given what the response was to "you're going to Egypt". So I don't know that this needs to be such a great concern.
And sometimes it might even be justified.
Don't forget possibly being destroyed by the amount of sexism that may occur.
Being away from her only wards is probably not good either, especially since she is the main form of protection they have. In any case, we don't speak the language or know the customs either, so we could learn together. We should frame it as a trip for them, maybe arrange for a tutor to go with us, and find someone to teach Turkish and Arabic to them. All options have some negative involved I think, but by having them near we could actively do damage control if needed. I think it would be one worry out of her mind at the very least.
She can just pick one of her subordinates to be her official proxy for all local interactions. Even the locals would prefer that since they'd no doubt be every bit as uncomfortable having to see her face as she would be having listen to what they say.
My read is that republican France is fighting for its life, and while this doesn't make it less sexist it does make it less willing to shit all over its military heroes. You don't openly insult someone you might need later.
I'm pretty sure it was directly encountered when we went to that officer's club with Napoleon. And there is a general understanding that Therese has evaded the effects of sexism due to constantly succeeding at her job, which she technically took up illegally and again, evaded the usual consequences because her gambits have thus far succeeded.
Not really the case most times. If the person is acting disrespectful to authority, the authorities during Revolutionary France's time didn't really mind tossing them in a prison cell or having them sent to the guillotine. Hoche got sent to a prison cell despite playing a large hand in clearing Alsace of Austrians. If they didn't like you, they was always willing to find someone else, France wasn't exactly short of competent people.
Seemed like diet, barely harmful sexism to me. It was just one instance, and was barely treated like anything at all. Besides, I do question how the Jacobin club there was portrayed as the historical one wasn't some fancy ball room with everyone dressed like an aristocrat, it was a church they rented out that spent most of its time debating the issues of the day, while also trying to seem more like men of the people, dressing up like the sans-culottes.
