The Writing Ideas Thread

anyone can surmise anything, when the person who said the words is no longer around to give her/his explanation...

 

Thank you for the article ..it is interesting that it is called the Five Marie Antoinette Scandals because I for one, associate scandals with extra marital affairs and nothing else.
scandals for me makes me think of Lady Chatterley's Lover and how the book was censored for example.
scandals is linked to some kind of sexual activity, for me anyway.

 

Uhhh... what?
A scandal is just any set of allegations that damage an individual or institution.
You can have political scandals, busniess scandals.... all sorts.

 

yup!... can't imagine why anyone would think the word only refers to sexual matters...

watergate was a scandal...
the us/iceland/ireland banking fiascos were scandals...
the catholic church and penn state/syracuse coaches' child abuse coverups are scandals...

 

I'm not sure what the point of this is, since Marie Antionette never said 'Let them eat cake'. It was a missquote from a much earlier French queen and it was part of the propaganda manufactured against Marie Antoinette. So, in answer to the OP, before using a quote I wouldn't use the quote/situation if it wasn't accurate, or I would use it in a kind of Monty Python takeoff.