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A Spartan Mindset (thelemmy.club)
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[-] danekrae@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The most common form of same-sex relationships between elite males in Greece was paiderastia[9] (pederasty). It was a relationship between an older male and an adolescent youth. A boy was considered a "boy" until he was able to grow a full beard. The older man was called erastes. He was to educate, protect, love, and provide a role model for his eromenos, whose reward for him lay in his beauty, youth, and promise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece

Is this the reason, Pete?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 hours ago

*warfighters

I make this correction not to support his term, but to mock it.

It's the most cringetastic newspeak of the entire Trump kakistocracy IMO and that's fucking SAYING something!

[-] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 minutes ago

If you're attributing "war fighters" to this administration, then you're mistaken. Maybe they imported it or something, I don't know, but I know for a fact that the British armed forces have been using the word for a long time. I suspect other NATO and/or commonwealth countries do as well.

It's supposed to be a generic word which doesn't imply gender or which service they're in, or precisely what they do, just generally being a label for everyone involved in carrying out war.

[-] decolo@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago

I'm honestly surprised they didn't go with something gendered and even stupider like 'war men'

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago

Kegsbreath just wants to be able to diddle boys?

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