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This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 111 points 3 months ago

And "The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality

[-] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago

Which is 36 years after this guy hatched

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Can we all agree to use "Sashayed in" rather than "hatched"?

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

He's still more tortoise than he is gay.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's probably true. But like, by weight? Surface area? Gay actions per hour vs tortoise actions per hour?

Hard to nail down.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Don't nail tortoises down. They reeeeally hate that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Well then they shouldn't slowly walk all over the place!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

By the degree his life would change were that aspect of him to change.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ah yep. His life would be significantly more different if he stopped being a tortoise.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Honestly, it's debatable whether a blind tortoise with no sense of smell is expressing homosexuality just because they seek sexual gratification with an object that happens to be male. He might also fuck rocks.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Perhaps he only ambled in.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm thinking something in a casual saunter with a touch of hip sway.

Or whatever the tortoise equivalent of that is 🤷

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I want to like this bc I'm almost genx, but I think it's sexist? What am I supposed to do in 2025?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Oh you don't stop now, you sashay harder. For all of us.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025

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