halfpastmonsoon:

Ancient Greeks favoured homosexuality not because they were oh so tolerant but because they were misogynists and believed you should only have sex with women for the sake of procreation and lesbians were banned can everyone please stop glorifying that now Please

literally where are you getting this

I have never heard of banning lesbians–which isn’t to say that it isn’t something that happened! but that it’s something that didn’t happen everywhere or isn’t well-documented–and because Ancient Greece isn’t one single state or completely homogenous culture can think of places where that would be definitely not a thing (Sparta) and places where that might be a thing (Athens) and overwhelmingly places where we have nowhere near enough evidence to say that that was a thing



I defs agree with not glorifying Ancient Greek poleis as like, the most tolerant and equal places ever (I mean. really at all.), but attempting to apply modern viewpoints to societies 2500yrs old isn’t really a great idea?? 2500yrs ago the views on homosexual v heterosexual relationships were… hella different from now… and more complicated than I feel like attempting to spell out here, but suffice to say it’s hella sketch to say that absolutely male homosexual relationships were favoured because misogyny. because an absolute like that tbh just isn’t true.