US Politics on Sidechat | To be fair, in Ancient Greece, adult homosexuality was more normal than now but still a bit taboo. What was normalized was wealthy families having their teen sons tutored and diddled by their male tutors as part of “becoming a man.”

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To be fair, in Ancient Greece, adult homosexuality was more normal than now but still a bit taboo. What was normalized was wealthy families having their teen sons tutored and diddled by their male tutors as part of “becoming a man.”

6 upvotes, 5 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "To be fair, in Ancient Greece, adult homosexuality was more normal than now but still a bit taboo. What was normalized was wealthy families having their teen sons tutored and diddled by their male tutors as part of “becoming a man.”"

US Politics 3w

The same people who jerk off to “Western values” and cried that they were being censored in media and academia are now banning one of the great works of Greek philosophy for discussing homosexuality (it was completely normal then btw)

27 upvotes. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "The same people who jerk off to “Western values” and cried that they were being censored in media and academia are now banning one of the great works of Greek philosophy for discussing homosexuality (it was completely normal then btw)"

Anonymous 3w

My point though is that these people want to act like homosexuality wasn’t a thing back then and these ancient civilizations were just so masculine and chad compared to us gay little liberals today. When in reality there was plenty of gay sex going on

Anonymous

#1 3w

Not that gay sex is inherently not masculine but that’s how their brains work

Anonymous

#1 3w

What’s funny is my position is left wing and that the Greeks actually weren’t so great. Like yeah homosexually was more normal but their harmful ideas of race and gender persist to today and slavery was central to their culture and pederasty was a key part of Athenian culture. There’s a reason we don’t hear about any Greek women outside of their mythology for the most part, unless you specifically study the classics, and even then it’s extremely rare.

Anonymous

OP 3w

I mean yeah I definitely agree that the ancient Athenians weren’t a perfect society or anything. I’m just arguing against censoring Plato’s writings because he discussed homosexuality. Especially in a college philosophy course. I think people should be able to gain this holistic view of them through primary sources rather than being sheltered from ideas that are thousands of years old because people want to act like it’s some new virus taking over society

Anonymous

OP 3w

at the same time greeks and people of that time probably (i say this just because i am not educated on this but im nearly certain) did similar things with underage women. homosexuality existed and was more normalized