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
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Alice@beehaw.org âš2â© âšmonthsâ© agoPeople 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.
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lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de âš2â© âšmonthsâ© ago
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?