this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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Sappho and her Friend

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 77 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How you can tell someone doesn't have a degree in the humanities, or doesn't understand their degree:

They think anything above "Aliens built the Pyramids" or "All human languages are secretly Turkic" or "The Roman Empire didn't exist" can be dismissed with an "end of story". Historians can't even agree on dates. Lit majors are even worse - and someone who supposedly has a degree in Classical Literature thinks that the interpretation of Sappho as sapphic (dohohoho), a mainstream position since at least the Roman Empire, should know better than to dismiss the position as 'actually insane'. Not least because it is still the mainstream position and has only become reinforced with recent scholarship.

Someone might be lying on the internet :o

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 47 points 3 months ago

Academia, as we all know, is the domain of brevity and easy definitive answers.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Lit majors are even worse

It didn't make sense until I read somewhere that where the sciences sought answers, the humanities asked questions.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Someone might be lying on the internet :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As someone who has two degrees in classic lit from the same university as the person pictured, Sappho was lesbian. End of story. Hope this helps.

[–] nulluser@programming.dev 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, yes. Someone with the punctuation, grammar and vocabulary of pre-teen claiming to have a degree in literature. 🙄

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hi, as someone who just had a massive dump I have no idea what this is about. End of story. Hope this helps.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

>Degree in classical literature
>"Sappho was not nothing like that"

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 16 points 3 months ago

Oh, the joy of running across another dingus trying to un-queer historical figures. Big swing trying to do it to Sappho, though.

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] sundray@lemmus.org 4 points 3 months ago

How can I? You spelled everything correctly!

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago

Maybe a degree in classical lit from Liberty or BYU.

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

Tell me you had a 2.0 GPA without telling me you had a 2.0 GPA.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 3 months ago

I took a class on English literature where the lady professor said she didn't quite believe the Goblin Market had sapphic imagery because they were "sisters."

If you want to read the horniest piece of "children's" poetry in the world that ends with one of the gayest quotes in literature, read the Goblin Market.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

She spelt “nothink” wrong.

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Nothing like That (derogatory)"

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Obvious bait

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

In the conservative worldview, saying so is all there is.