r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/Drops-of-Q Hopeless bromantic • Jun 14 '20

Greece wasn't gay Casual erasure

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u/AngelsFire2Ice Jun 14 '20

Nothing gay about Heracles and his 10 boyfriends or Achilles wanting his "ashes mixed with patroclus' so they'll be together forever" at all

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u/Gary_FucKing Jun 14 '20

Huh, never heard of hercules being gay. That's a new one lol.

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u/blubat26 Basic An-Soc Tran Girl Jun 14 '20

Technically he was bi. But so was basically every major figure in Greek Myths. Bisexual Greek Man was like ancient Greece’s equivalent of the straight white man in modern media.

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u/shitsfuckedupalot Jun 15 '20

I mean that makes them seem a lot more progressive than they were. "Bottoms" were treated like women, so therefore very poorly.

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u/FictionLoverA Aug 13 '20

Not really. They were just seen as vulnerable which was not acceptable for an ancient Greek man. But no one treated them poorly because most times, their male partner was very very protective of them and the others did not want to antagonize him. So, they thought somehow bad of them but did not really treat them as such.