• SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    Because it was treated as a reading of historical texts. I haven’t personally looked up if those historical texts are legit but it’s funny to think that historians would disregard lesbian relations by saying they were just friends/roommates

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      11 months ago

      It wasn’t just lesbian relationships. Pretty much any gay/lesbian relationship when written about by historians calls them roommates or very close friends or some bullshit like that

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        11 months ago

        I had only seen it in the context of lesbian relationships till now (multiple times, not just a couple of times), and didn’t want to assume.