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[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 78 points 7 months ago

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

It's more likely than you think

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 69 points 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..

[-] ergifruit@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 7 months ago

as a pagan, stop. we don't need a second Varg

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 7 months ago

Especially not while the first one's still drawing breath

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 23 points 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@hexbear.net 4 points 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@hexbear.net 47 points 7 months ago

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

should have made him a greek manlet

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 51 points 7 months ago

They should have cast Stavros as Alexander the Great

[-] btfod@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

Alexander the Weight

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Alexander looking at his empire with that Thousand Island Stare:

"And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer."

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 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.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 43 points 7 months ago

Alexander the Top

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 43 points 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@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

By and large, Alexander was bi and large

We love our big bi boy folks, we love him

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

alexander and many other men openly having sex with many eunichs

actually not gay

[-] kot@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 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@hexbear.net 40 points 7 months ago

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

great, alexander the

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

Son of Phil the Great

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 24 points 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.

[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

the greeks invented gayness

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 9 points 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@hexbear.net 5 points 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.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago
[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 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@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

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

[-] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

I know it's not recommended, but i just leave gay on standby.

[-] Dalek@hexbear.net 25 points 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.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

woah, a greek guy that fucks dudes? this is completely unheard of in human history.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Were the Macedonians woke?

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago
[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

I'm honestly surprised they haven't pulled an "Alexander was a paedo" card.

Satanic Hollywood making a biopic about a pederast to normalise adrenochrome harvesting etc etc

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Can't they just like, exist in a world where they're sometimes respectfully disagreed with? This isn't life or death.

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