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Bénita Anguinet (1819 -1887) 5/Until today, public feminicide is still largely applauded and there are fewer female magicians than there was two centuries ago. Obviously something went wrong during the XXth century 🤔🌈🧙🏽 Done.

Bénita Anguinet (1819 -1887) 4/Later, exasperated by a burgeoning feminism and suffragettes, male magicians started to saw, pierce, drown, smashed and torture their female assistants (with doves and rabbits too) for a delighted audience.

Bénita Anguinet (1819 -1887) 3/....to be relegated to a role of assistants of male magicians... 3/Robert Houdin (who worked only 7 yrs but wrote 6 books) remained in history when Bénita (who worked 50 yrs but didn't leave any written testimony) just vanished...

Bénita Anguinet (1819 -1887) 2/Unanimously respected and admired, she later moved to Spain where she went on working until her death. But then, in this second half of a very petit-bourgeois XIXth century, women had already disappeared from the front stage.... ☹️

Bénita Anguinet (1819 -1887) 1/Bénita was a famous and very talented magician with a long international career. Single, fiercely intelligent, elegant, she owned her Parisian theatre and worked with a team of assistants.

I didn't know that to suppress an Instragram account you need to do it through the web. It doesn't work through the app, probably because they don't want to make it easy for us. Mark is mean.

Well, isn't it nice to see free press at work?

Musk's mum, Musk's car dashboard. What did we expect?