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[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

How about we see these letters? Surely there's scans of them in an archive somewhere, right? So why the wall of text with no evidence backing it up?

[–]JulienMayfair 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, I know how these projects work. They'll have found 2-3 historical examples and will use them to argue that there's a massive historical precedent when they're really the exceptions that prove the rule.

[–]fuck_reddit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If there’s such a storied history, give me 1 (one) example from pre-WWII.