• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      4 months ago

      Ha, yeah, I get it. “lol they gay” is usually a joke. In this case it is not, as you mentioned:

      In Sparta […] the cropping of the bride’s hair and transvestism likely aimed to transform her temporarily into an adolescent Spartan boy – a less threatening figure to the groom, who probably had made his own transition to adulthood via a close emotional and sexual relationship with an older male

      It is just what was up