• carpoftruth [any, any]
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    7 months ago

    A famous Greek warrior? Doing homosexuality? In my antiquities?

    It's more likely than you think

  • oregoncom [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    You can always out-trad these people. Say their minds have been corrupted by christian slave morality and go neopagan on them..

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      It is very funny seeing white guys lament the lost day of the alpha Viking warrior, then you look at his bio and it’s a proud Christian lol. Empty brain. Just vibes.

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        7 months ago

        scandinavians were such hardcore christians during medieval times that they usually got baptised multiple times

        because the priests gave you the white robe afterwards and apparentely it was very valuable in the local markets

  • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    smh casting a angloid as Alexander, the wokes have won again

    should have made him a greek manlet

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    A bronze age warlord could be named Homosexius Manlover and trad dipshits would still blame the "woke agenda" if you made a show about him kissing dudes between conquests.

  • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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    7 months ago

    I'll keep saying it until it becomes a sute tagline:

    By and large, Alexander was bi and large

    Also from what little I know of history he was murdered by a council of old conservatives who hated him for multiculturalism so yeah, these dipshits would've probably hated Alexander at the time

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      By and large, Alexander was bi and large

      We love our big bi boy folks, we love him

  • Optimus_Subprime [he/him, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    Did these so called "historians" not watch the older Alexander biopic (2004) with Colin Farrell?

    He was bi then, he is bi now. Sheesh.

    • LaughingLion [any, any]
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      7 months ago

      he wasnt gay or bi or straight because these are modern concepts the ancients didnt give a shit about people just fucked back then

      • Raebxeh
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        7 months ago

        What’s the sexual orientation where you fuck the cute eunuch who takes on the women’s role?

  • kot [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    World's most historically literate reactionary weights in on the famously heterosexual people, the Greeks.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    Weren't the Greeks super gay?

    Also why is this Greek man blonde?

    Also, why are they calling this warlord "Great"?

    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      that was his name. it's on the birth certificate and everything

      great, alexander the

    • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      Oh yeah, Macedonians were of the Dorian cultural group (shared a lot with Spartans) that pretty much had regimented militarized homosexuality (i.e. you and a squad/group-mate sharing bunks is socially enforced/expected). It was pretty much a given assumption in society that men would have their wives but also have male lovers as well (different from the Roman stance on homosexuality only being acceptable for those "taking" and not "receiving", i.e. ussually non-consensual) and that these male lovers were commonly the men they trained and studied with.

    • LaughingLion [any, any]
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      7 months ago

      yes and no

      gayness as an identity is a modern concept the ancients didnt really focus on that they just kind of fucked whoever they wanted there was a lot less social stigma around all that

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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      7 months ago

      Also why is this Greek man blonde?

      Alexander was Macedonian, and even today there are fairer skinned Greeks. It's not inconceivable that he would be blonde but we honestly don't know.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    To be fair Alexander could have been blond, there are many descriptions of him like that (and also many with brown hair). Plutarch, who lived long after him but is generally a good source describe him as blond. His eyes were again, depend on version, blue, gray or one blue and one gray. It's not impossible since ancient Macedonians were known to have all those.

    About gayness, it was rather bisexualism which was common in Macedonian nobility, including pederastia.

  • beef_curds [she/her]
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    7 months ago

    That's not even that good of a time. I can get gay% in sub 5.

  • Dalek
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    7 months ago

    Plenty of historical texts describing his love affairs with men and women. Plenty of history describing the ancient Greeks also like that. Later Romans too.