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

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago (3 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 46 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

How can I? You spelled everything correctly!

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 14 points 1 month ago

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

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Maybe a degree in classical lit from Liberty or BYU.

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

She spelt “nothink” wrong.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 1 month 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.

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Nothing like That (derogatory)"

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Obvious bait

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

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