it wasnt due to a vine
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NickwithaC@lemmy.world 11 months agoI still can’t fathom how that one vine got universally accepted as code for lesbians.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Akasazh@feddit.nl 11 months ago
What vine are you taking about?
-someone not universal
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Way pre-dated vine
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
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
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
I had only seen it in the context of lesbian relationships till now (multiple times, not just a couple of times), and didn’t want to assume.