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assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TheHowTM@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh my god, they were roommates.

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  • NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still can’t fathom how that one vine got universally accepted as code for lesbians.

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    • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because it was treated as a reading of historical texts. I haven’t personally looked up if those historical texts are legit but it’s funny to think that historians would disregard lesbian relations by saying they were just friends/roommates

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      • KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It wasn’t just lesbian relationships. Pretty much any gay/lesbian relationship when written about by historians calls them roommates or very close friends or some bullshit like that

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    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it wasnt due to a vine

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What vine are you taking about?

      -someone not universal

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      • NickwithaC@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        youtu.be/S0iM3bkkpbI

        That’s it. That’s really all there is. And yet whenever you see posts about women in love there’s always a reference to this one 5 second video. It’s also never in the stories about people’s uncles having a “friend” who lives with them in a one bed flat in the Castro, it’s only ever a wlw thing.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Way pre-dated vine

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• idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The best of friends.

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• dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Step* roommates

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “roommates”

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