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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020

      February being an "odd one out" of the months with fewer days than any other month was sort-of intentional based on Roman superstition -- February was the worst-luck part of the year, the crappy part of the winter everyone hated, that people still tried to ignore

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020

      Like, it was bad luck to *say* it, and you would try to avoid scheduling during February, hence they tried to minimize how much "February" there was in the year ...Which is why it's kind of funny we decided to make it Black History Month, like SNL pointed out

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020

      That's why it's kind of funny and perverse that English people invented Valentine's Day and tried to link it to the "Roman tradition of Lupercalia" They didn't know what they were talking about, the Februa/Lupercalia (which February is named for) had nothing to do with sex/love

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    4. Will Never Shut Up About Rape Culture‏ @ShieldingC 12 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Where does the Catholic feast day of Saint Valentine factor in?

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020
      Replying to @ShieldingC

      St. Valentine was martyred literally a thousand years before English people came up with the "Valentine's Day" tradition, and no one said anything about him having anything to do with sex/romance/marriage before then, so it also doesn't really factor in

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ShieldingC

      There was a whole thing on Twitter last year where some Christian lady tried to argue Valentine's Day was specifically for het couples because St. Valentine was a Christian who married straight couples when pagan Rome banned it She got dunked on A LOT

      2 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ShieldingC

      All of the stories about Valentine being associated with romance are very very recently written, from like the 19th century, greeting-card bullshit The idea that the girl whose blindness he healed in the original legend he was secretly in love with, etc

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ShieldingC

      The idea that "pagan Rome" literally banned men and women from marrying each other and having children is so amazingly ahistorical it almost dignifies it too much to even try to argue against it

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    9. Random832‏ @Random832 12 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ShieldingC

      Wait, what? I'd always assumed the claim was that Rome banned *christians* from getting married, not that they banned it altogether.

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020
      Replying to @Random832 @ShieldingC

      Not according to this lady! (And not according to the story I heard when I went to a Christian high school in the US, which was the same)

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 @ShieldingC

      They actually think the Roman Emperors wanted people to stop having het marriages so more men would join the army and be gay together or something

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 @ShieldingC

          The funny thing is, like I said last time this came up, it's the *exact opposite* Caesar Augustus was a conservative who wanted to bring back traditional family values (the "mos maiorum", the "ways of the ancestors") and get the birthrate back up

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Random832 @ShieldingC

          He made it illegal to *not* get married -- once you were above the age of 25, you had to get married and produce a certain number of children, and if you didn't you paid a tax penalty

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