Most ancient Western cultures had really rigid gender roles, even the ones were same sex relationships were accepted. For a lot of those groups, like the Romans, Greeks, and Celts, gay sex was considered part of how soldiers bonded, and it was typically intercrural (non penetrative.) A lot of cultures that accepted gay relationships still considered being penetrated to be feminine and humiliating, hence the intercrural sex.
People were executed for homosexuality in the army of the Roman Republic. Homosexuality was considered a Greek vice, which didn't stop every nobleman from doing it anyway.
Gotta keep in mind that while gods had very human aspects, they weren't seen as human the way we see them now. Their canon was incredibly fractured due to cultural traditions being passed orally, so you had those sorts of oddities going around that occasionally got recorded.
I think the big difference there is homosexual sex being seen as part of a friendship as opposed to part of an exclusive romantic relationship. Bonding experience vs. being exclusively gay. Even Achilles, who had this really intense relationship with Patroclus everybody nowadays loves to assume was full of butt-fucking, had prized female companions. Hell, Briseis is the entire reason he and Agamemnon feud and he spends half the war sulking in his tent.
Mhmmmmmmm... let's compare and contrast, shall we?
I wonder if/when transracialism is going to start becoming widely accepted. I never understood why progressives considered the Rachel Dolezals of the world to be persona non grata while the 41ers were universally thought to be Stunning and Brave, considering they're basically the same thing. How is some guy saying he's a woman because he likes wearing skirts and feels a connection to womanhood any different than that white guy who thinks he's Filipino because he likes lumpia and feels a connection to their culture?
Transracialism is never going to be widely accepted by SJWs. Why? Because it dilutes the power of oppressed racial minorities by allowing the non-oppressed to claim oppression. If Cracker McWhitey can just say he's black and you must accept his word, then you have to give him the same respect you offer black people even though he's clearly not one. The cognitive dissonance is too great. Plus "transracials" all trip the "cultural appropriation" trigger by "embracing" a culture they weren't born into.I wonder if/when transracialism is going to start becoming widely accepted. I never understood why progressives considered the Rachel Dolezals of the world to be persona non grata while the 41ers were universally thought to be Stunning and Brave, considering they're basically the same thing. How is some guy saying he's a woman because he likes wearing skirts and feels a connection to womanhood any different than that white guy who thinks he's Filipino because he likes lumpia and feels a connection to their culture?
Wonder if we'll eventually see hot takes on how cis-black people oppress trans-blacks and how they need to check their privilege.
Thor once dressed up as a woman to marry someone.
Because men are evil unless they were born women. Get with the program, man!
He’s been shorter than the other boys his whole life and that’s why he’s trans.
Well, it became fine in Christian Europe to choose not to reproduce, but you also had to do unfun things like ‘follow rules’ and ‘pray’.
And didn't Norse paganism have a religious ritual that involved raping and murdering a female captive? Yeah, a society that has that as a ritual would TOTALLY be progressive towards trannies.
Comparing people who refuse to sleep with you because you have a dick to people who fucking committed genocide is peak first world problems.
Troons hate transracialism. Because to a certain extent, they get away with saying they can change their gender, because people generally think that it involves putting in effort, it's like same-sex attraction so they were born that way and can't help it - in general, they don't think about the ramifications, so it seems reasonable enough. But being transracial is like being otherkin - no-one takes them seriously because it is obvious how crazy they're being.
We are letting them exist, we're just making fun of that existence. And they are hurting people - each individual troon has inevitably done some harm, and as a whole they are fucking up families, kids, actual gay rights, science, and the safety of women. Now remind me, which group has baseball bats specifically designed for attacking women they don't like again?
