Suber Winkel - Rudolf Wacker - 1930, Austria

A few pieces of pottery that may or may not endorse homosexuality out of tens of thousands does not mean that homosexuality was a promoted cultural norm. Even if that's what these vases were actually endorsing, a couple examples from the collection of some ancient Greek Harvey Weinstein doesn't mean it was a cultural norm.

xoenix · 2025-04-16T17:10:53+00:00

Some reactions here. Looks like some carefully worded snark at the top managed to not get deleted.

xoenix · 2025-04-16T14:02:41+00:00

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xoenix · 2025-04-16T13:02:56+00:00

All the sources cited are modern queer projections. They do not contradict my point. There are no positive depictions of pederasty or homosexuality without applying an extremely queer re-interpretation of the source material.

xoenix · 2025-04-16T03:17:30+00:00

Pederasty:

A prominent form of same-sex relationships was pederasty, where an older, experienced man (erastês) fostered a mentor-mentee relationship with a young, unmarried male (erômenos). This dynamic was often viewed as a path to learning, development, and even a source of social and political influence for the young man.

You're dredging up AI slop. The only mention of pederasty was Plato condemning the practice. The mentor/student relationship was considered a path to learning. Predators exploited the relationship to feed their degenerate desires. Then people like you try to normalize it.

xoenix · 2025-04-16T01:23:42+00:00

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xoenix · 2025-04-15T21:50:17+00:00

I don't not see the problem.

xoenix · 2025-04-15T19:43:06+00:00

Well paganism and pantheism were prevalent at the time.

The Greeks didn't really embrace homosexuality as much as modern revisionists would have you believe. Most recorded references to it are things like Athenians and Spartans calling each other gay and pederasts. When gays were depicted they're usually as demons or degenerates. Only trad families were depicted or described with any dignity.

xoenix · 2025-04-15T19:29:12+00:00

What? How so?

xoenix · 2025-04-15T19:18:44+00:00

They called each other gay a lot anyway.

xoenix · 2025-04-15T19:16:36+00:00

The left has been saying the exact same thing about Democrat/bourgeois "socialists" forever. All the way back to Marx.

xoenix · 2025-04-15T18:14:05+00:00

The left thinks those actors are corporate sellouts. Watch them contradict your gaslighting in their own words.

"We hate Bernie Sanders MORE for drawing 10s of thousands of activists - of would-be Marxists - into a swamp that they may not emerge from."

"Let us be clear: Voting for the Democrats is NEVER a victory for the working class."

"The short-term gain offered by Bernie Sanders and the like is a farce. They will not save workers. They will not help workers. They will not advance the working class movement, and they should not be trusted. Nor should we confuse our interests with theirs."

"Any form of propaganda that does not clearly point to a necessity is bourgeois in nature and should be combated WITH EQUAL FEROCITY as racism, fascism & homophobia."

The people firebombing Teslas and Democrat governers think like this.

xoenix · 2025-04-15T17:24:43+00:00

You obviously have zero understanding of both the left and the right.

xoenix · 2025-04-15T16:16:16+00:00

The left loathes the Democrats, they hate them even more than Republicans.

xoenix · 2025-04-15T16:14:24+00:00

Authored by this X account.

xoenix · 2025-04-15T14:12:39+00:00

Riiiight, the registered socialist, BLM-supporting anarchist is a MAGAT.

xoenix · 2025-04-15T04:44:11+00:00

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xoenix · 2025-04-15T02:11:25+00:00

Even so, at least the guy didn't end up feeling rejected.

xoenix · 2025-04-14T20:48:52+00:00

I've been noticing a pattern at the downtown (lefty) coffee shops I frequent. Once in a while I'll notice that they've hired a TIM, who looks kinda like they should fit in with the other baristas and their hair and tattoos, etc. But they rarely seem to last long, while the other regulars will stick around from month to month and year to year. The dynamic between these liberal baristas never seems quite as inclusive as the scenes from woke university would have us believe.

xoenix · 2025-04-14T00:31:26+00:00

Streamer culture has gone to the cats.

xoenix · 2025-04-14T00:22:40+00:00

Composting.

xoenix · 2025-04-13T19:46:09+00:00

It's good at wasting your time with the same annoying, long-winded, obfuscating monologues of trans activists that its model inhaled.

xoenix · 2025-04-13T19:33:49+00:00

They're stressing two contradictory things at the same time:

Gender and sex are different
Gender and sex are supposed to be "aligned", even though there isn't any single aspect of gender that depends on or "aligns" with sex

xoenix · 2025-04-13T16:29:28+00:00

What do you think, did I get it to cave at the end?

The idea that gender & sex can be in or out of alignment is key to the definition transgender, but seems pretty easy to dismantle from the principles of gender identity itself.

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