Comment on Cucumber đ„
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? âŠblogspot.com/âŠ/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptianâŠ
tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife
People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isnât a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.
I remember seeing a ton of âarcheologists: tHeYârE jUsT fRiEnDsâ comments on an ancient illustration of two Egyptian men, when every single source I could find explained why they seem to have been a gay couple.
Seems like a case where a particular claim of a select group was generalised over a supergroup by way of being the subject of memes that ran away with the stereotype.
Itâs like that one fraud falsifying studies about a specific type of vaccines in an attempt to sell his own, only for people to latch on to the âvaccine badâ part of the story without limit, nuance or critical examination.
Does anyone still know where the original âjust friendsâ claim stems from, in which context, supported by which arguments, what refutations have been offered since and just how widespread among archaeologists it is today?
also like, is it really that hard to imagine that archeologists went âwell this is a gay couple but uh, we canât really say that, so letâs just informally agree that âclose friendsâ is euphemism for âgay coupleâ, okay?â
Wakes up in the afterlife only to bite into fake food, thatâs gotta suck.
You ever tried eating a mouldy cucumber?
How long does it take you to die?
Not something Iâm in a hurry to find out!
âsustainâ
IM sure thatâs what they wrote down and Iâm sure thatâs what the person who had it commissioned said it was but the one thing I am more sure of is that this is not a cucumber and nobody who ever saw it has ever thought it is a cucumber.
From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same siteâŠ
they chose to hide it in plain sight
Why does that sound like the voice of experience?
kinky
Theoretically even a buttplug could be assembled with 2 of the veggies
So, a bunch of dildos and buttplugs. Even a ribbed one!
kamenlady@lemmy.world âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Sustain someone with the ability to have a little sexy time in the afterlife? I like this.
idunnololz@lemmy.world âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
No it was a final insult, telling them to go fk themselves /s