Look I know academics saying embarrassing things about "eros" or "erotics" in public is easy to dunk on and there's a time honored tradition of doing so But you all know that it makes you look ignorant, right, and not just of PoMo 20th century "queer theory" shit
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And yet if you insist that sex MUST be part of it and that in every such case it MUST be gay you're pretty clearly wrong and being an asshole
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Indeed. I think part of the issue is that the stakes are so high and ideological, that the nuances of the historical records just get trampled over. Like distinctions between agape and eros... sounds really profound... until you do a word search. 1/
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And one sees that 'the Greeks' were bickering and confused as indeed we are. Or take appeals to the 'purity' of Germans in Tacitus: people get out of the texts what they want; they downplay the counter-evidence in order to construct a genealogy of whatever ideology they want. 2
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