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one thing you really gotta respect about those cinema buffs, they spend a lot of time watching movies they know upfront that they will not enjoy

marching in the street to the front lines of the war on christmas

@Anarchist_Mallrat
adhd-ahamilton:
“Were there any straight people in this period of history?”

“Well...obviously speaking, there must have been some people that nowadays
we would describe as ‘straight’, but we have to be very careful about applying
modern standards of sexuality to the past. I'm sure if you asked anybody at the
time if they were straight, they would have been very confused. And there's
something quite dangerous about forcing identities onto people who might not
consider themselves that way. You also need to keep in mind that some things
that today would seem ‘straight’ to us - like getting married, having children, etc. -
were just the way things were back then. Nobody would have thought twice about
doing that, including non-straight people. And there were plenty of people who
undoubtedly got married, had very intensely emotional connections with their
spouse, but then went off to go see their lover. Again, sexuality is a very complex
thing, so I wouldn't presume to state definitively that anybody was ‘straight’, and
especially not without good, solid evidence that they were exclusively
heterosexual, To presume otherwise would not only be making a lot of
assumptions, it might even just promote harmful, overdone stereotypes about
what makes someone ‘have’ to be straight, you know? So, yes, technically
speaking there were, but I don't see any reason to specifically consider straight
people historically.”