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Ooop, caught my mistake hah. Thanks! I'll edit it. Dunno why I put Rome lol. Her poems are interesting though. The whole "Sappho and her friend" take is legitimate but I think she was at least bi, though. With lines like:

"Although clumsy, Mnasidica has a more shapely figure than our gentle Gyrinno"

Or,

"The gods bless you May you sleep then On some tender Girl friend's breast"

I think about her poetry often haha. Though my favorite is:

"Although they are Only breath, words which I command are immortal"

Fuckin iconic 👑

I'm more of a passing interest in manga; currently with ones called Blade of the Immortal (Omnibus), Star Blazers 2199 (Omnibus) and I'm following a vampire one called Happiness. I started Berserk, but haven't gotten far, too. I've been trying to find a cheap copy of Planetes because it's been highly recommended to me.

Besides the above, I've never really read much of it. I tried one that was supposed to be a romance but it was a harvest spirit fox-girl? That one grossed me out.

But I will for sure look into that one and maybe add that to my list! Thanks for the recommendation!

Self acceptance. Hygiene. Bodily autonomy. Illusion of choice. Style preference. Depends on the person.

If you are balding, you've really only got the choice between shaving and not shaving. Many prefer to feel like they still have some agency in the matter.

Because the medieval monk hair style doesn't work for everyone.

"Simping for" is fundamentally different from being interested in the history of. In some cases, quite the opposite.

I spent some time researching the legal frameworks of American slavery, and a ton of time on racist laws between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in large part because I think that it is under reported just how racist the origins of a lot of our day to day lives are. So when I'm deep in the weeds on racist history, it's often because I can see the parallels today and don't want to reinvent the wheel on stamping out the pockets of racism I actually have the power to change.

No no. I'm sure there have always been crazy assholes who like things that normal people also like. The difference from the time I'm talking about and now is that the fringe psychos didn't get to represent whole areas of interests and thereby have people who are on the outside of the interest, paint all people with the interest as fascists.

That is the difference. I miss when people could have interests without having to defend themselves against trigger happy people who see ghosts in every corner.

The Western conceptualization of masculinity is obsessed with violence, war and domination with protector of others (including animals and nature) being an afterthought so this is really not all that surprising if you have any exposure outside of the confines of that world view.

This is mainly a consequence of individualism which Western thought has sent into overdrive.

Yes of course I wrestled him.

It went okay.

Not even. There is no evidence for special training. Their battle record was average and their reputation mostly manufactured. This entry of a blog series on the myth of Sparta dissects that particular justification frequently offered for all the inhumanity laid out in the preceding posts.

But a hero's death!

There is, some of my friends had rough times about it. Disowned, kicked to the street then and there. There is a sterotype because it is bad, and I don't live in the deep south.

My father isn't really in the picture and thankfully my mom is an odd old sort of conservative where she believes thats a personal behing closed doors sort of deal between a person, thier partners and god. She dislikes the whole coming out type of stuff but its because she says that should be kept to oneself, that its nobody's business and perverted to concern yourself with someones sexual preferences and to proclaim your sexual preferences. Its almost funny, shes held the same beliefs all her life, been staunchly republican all the while but now people are starting to call her liberal. When it came up she said "Okay, that's your business"

Something that helped me was knowing in the bible it says it is Gods job to judge people, not anyone elses, that you should not judge a person for sin but treat them equally. No matter what anyone says they think God believes, he said if they cast hatred in their hearts they are sinners.

Good luck to you, and to anyone else struggling. May you find peace and happiness in your life.