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

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Illuminostro 12 points 1 day ago

"pleese, u cant evun spale (grammur) rite. murika."

[–] PugJesus 74 points 2 days 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 46 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Rolando 7 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Stern 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Maybe a degree in classical lit from Liberty or BYU.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Obvious bait

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Nothing like That (derogatory)"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

How can I? You spelled everything correctly!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

She spelt β€œnothink” wrong.