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      Sometimes it’s “reaction formation”. They like a thing. That makes them uncomfortable. They instead go hard in the other direction - they hate the thing it’s horrible and bad and the worst.

      Sometimes they’re just… basic, and need the world to fit into simple boxes. Anything else stresses their brain.

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    7 hours ago

    They must be thinking about Hollywood’s depiction of exaggerated “manly” Spartan homosexuality. They just want to LARP 300 so bad, you guys.

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        No, ironically the Spartans in the movie made fun of the Athenians by calling them boy lovers. Which is hilarious considering that Spartan society was way more homosexual than Athenian society.

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          I always interpreted it as a Spartan preference for grown men over boys.

          Like more Freddie Mercury and less Judy Garland, please.

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            Idk, maybe if there was even a single reference to Spartan homosexuality then maybe. But Spartans were just depicted as beautiful strong who all loved their beautiful strong wives.

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                Lol, I think you might be giving it more credit than it deserves. I’m not sure if there is a lot of subtext in the movie 300. The writing in that movie is pretty minimal and straight forward. It’s just a shoddy framework for some interesting (for the time) visual effects.

                That is unless you think Zack Snyder was purposely creating media that would fascinate future chuds for years to come. Imo it’s just the movie your average 14 year old boy would make in the 00s.

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    Hey now, the ancients were ped erasts, not ped ophiles. The fancy term makes it okay!

    (Just don’t point out that the difference is that pederasty means same-sex pedophilia. Or do! I wonder how they’d react.)