Colonel! I have the right...

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Legitimate_Ebb_3322@reddit

"homosexuality has always been here! Lol all over the world!"

Literally always ritualized pederasty

What did anthropology mean by this

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CantGankTheCrank@reddit

Tbf everybody was fucking kids back then

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Initial-Kangaroo-534@reddit

To be even more fair, what qualifies as a “kid” has changed wildly over the centuries. We infantilize children much longer than we used to.

There was a time when a 12-year-old was already working the farm and taking care of things that would be considered “adult” responsibilities today. And it wasn’t uncommon at all for a young person to be married off when they were 13-15 years old. Especially girls.

In England, for example, the law was changed in 1823 so boys could marry at 14 and girls at 12.

In many cultures of the past, a girl was considered ready for marriage after her first period (menarche).

In Islam it’s said that Mohammed married Aisha when she was only 6, but didn’t consummate the marriage until she was 9.

TLDR: Yes, everyone was fucking kids back then.

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blazefreak@reddit

I know kids in china still get abducted and sold off to rural villages so the buyer can have a wife. Happened to my coworker's cousin. She was found 30 years later but she had died after having 6 kids and husband beat her for only having girls.

Why rural villages is because a lot of the families moved into cities and left the villages with less people. Also Chinese having the culture of boys first and abandoning females or selling them off to other families. Rural villages became a sinkhole with disproportionate male to female ratios.

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IdentifyAsUnbannable@reddit

When the average lifespan was 35, 12 was not a child. His ass would be outside in the fields.

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AznKian@reddit

Not that I have a horse in the race for this conversation, but it is worth mentioning that humans' average lifespan at that time was so low because infant mortality rates were high. People were living well into their 70s if they made it to adulthood. (They just didn't because medicine was ass)

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BlueRibbonWhiteBread@reddit

My great-grandmother had her first 3 children die in infancy before she had my grandfather, and this was in the late 1940s. Could only imagine how bad it would've been 100+ years before that

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Takseen@reddit

Yeah In some cultures children often wouldn't get named until after a few weeks or months, simply because some would die before they got that far.

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Glonos@reddit

I cannot imagine how we survived 20000 years past, like there was nothing, maybe some wall painting but that is it, the mother would probably have to eat her own dirty placenta that had been on the jungle floor full of bacteria and mold. Wield that we made it with such fragile babies, imagine the MF crying right when a pack of hyenas were close by to devour you, just through that little MF to them and make a new one I guess.

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TrumpDesWillens@reddit

Humans usually live in groups of 150 people so it wasn't like everyone was on their own. People have always had a lot of help.

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IdentifyAsUnbannable@reddit

It wasn't until recent modern history that we have been able to counter nature in such a way that essentially our only threat to, not just survival but thriving, is ourselves.

The last frontier is fighting infectious disease and aging itself.

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stillmahboi@reddit

While that is partly true, you're wrong that everyone was fucking kids.

In most societies people were acutely aware that birthing a child should be done after a woman was fully developed which is why even if they married young, they were encouraged to only have children at around 20

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ramsesbc@reddit

Till that to Jesus’ mom

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Ecstatic-Compote-595@reddit

bro there was dp in the magazine store in airports in the 80s, i don't think the gays did that

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Legitimate_Ebb_3322@reddit

This is not actually true

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Ecstatic-Compote-595@reddit

which part

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AnotherScoutTrooper@reddit

well plenty of them made the material but that's a whole different conversation

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Organic-Walk5873@reddit

Well known fact that all hetero relationships in antiquity were always between two consenting adults

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Legitimate_Ebb_3322@reddit

"People got married as teenagers in the middle ages, this is why rapin' catamites is normal"

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Organic-Walk5873@reddit

Yes they were both always teenagers, very brave and astute point

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Rroy115_ciok@reddit

History sure is wild.

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noticingmore@reddit

Their boys are suckin' and fuckin' each other every chance they get wherever they are in the world.

Fruitiness is in their DNA, it's why they love being in entertainment.

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Organic-Walk5873@reddit

Anon can you find literally any race on the planet that hasn't engaged in homosexual activity?

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noticingmore@reddit

Even you must be able to tell the difference between <1% of a general population and 50% of a minority population.

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Organic-Walk5873@reddit

False premise

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Slight-Equivalent84@reddit

Pre colonial reports from Cameroon in 1911-1922…

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GummyBearLincoln@reddit

Report does not necessarily mean first hand accounts that they saw in 1911-22. They likely mean that the report (as in a story the reporter was told) was from 1911-22 but homosexuality had occurred before colonial times.

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Slight-Equivalent84@reddit

That tracks and I can get behind it. Just thought it read funny in the op tweet

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

Apparently Cameroon was colonized by Germans in 1884, but this person has a Phd?

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Slight-Equivalent84@reddit

PhD doesn’t mean it’s in history I guess

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Brussel_Rand@reddit

True, but you'd think someone who went to college for almost a decade (at least) would have better critical thinking skills than us

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GreenwichPippin@reddit

homosexuality is african DEY EAT DA POO POO

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