• CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
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      13 hours ago

      Ok? I’m not saying they weren’t homophobic, I’m saying their specific flavor of homophobia wouldn’t clash with the depiction in that specific meme

      • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 hours ago

        Pagan Viking views on sexuality were more akin to pagan Roman views, it’s true (though arguably more extreme; Julius Caesar was called “every woman’s man and every man’s woman” and “the Queen of Bithynia” in his day, and so far as we know he never got to kill anyone over it). By the end of the end of the Viking age, post Christianisation, that may have been more or less true. But either way, it’s safe to say that the Vikings would not approve of a relationship between two men.

        The meme certainly suggests without any other context that the Vikings would disapprove of homophobia, and that seems to me to just not be the case.

      • kadotux@sopuli.xyz
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        13 hours ago

        To exclusively top and to disapprove being fucked are two separate things

      • The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net
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        13 hours ago

        It’s homophobic to look down on someone for being a bottom. How is this hard to understand? It’s nothing new either, it’s something that’s been around for a while and which is part of macho and homophobic culture. You can see that in prison rape/culture as well. No one questions your manliness if you’re the top, but if you’re a bottom you get called the bitch.