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markparham

You Are Going To Have So Much Success In 2018 (pass it on)

paganinpurple

I nearly scrolled past, but I got nervous

black2thefeature

👆🏾 that part👆🏾

factfiend

Fun fact: According to Greek legend there was a famous prostitute who managed to avoid a death sentence by showing the judges her boobs and arguing that it would be a crime against the Gods to destroy something so beautiful.

Before you ask, yes there are paintings of this. And yes, they’re amazing.

karlosmadera-deactivated2019022

I love history.

Role models tho.

The gay one

No, but this is one of my absolute favorite bits of history!

The courtesan named was named Phryne and she was indeed a renowned beauty, and was indeed was put on trial for a capital crime. And yes, the sum of her defense consisted of her stripping in court (helped by her lover/defendant) and asking the jury (all males) if they were prepared to destroy this.

But this is actually a very interesting case of Values Dissonance - the capital crime she was accused of was blasphemy. In Ancient Greek society, exceptional beauty was a sign of favor from the gods, and they took the idea that beauty indicated goodness with great seriousness. They even called their nobles Kaloi k'Agathoi, “the Beautiful and the Good.”

So by showing off her great physical beauty, Phryne was being very clever indeed, her argument essentially being “How could I possibly commit blasphemy if the gods have given me this body?“

God, I adore history.

nationalshitpostingagency

”If these tits are legit, you must acquit.”

pendejx-deactivated20200323

Mood

amyjacob

i’ve been laughing for 2 minutes straight

jakes-bootyass

I said, “Do you mind if I still make fun of you on stage?”

And my wife said, “Yeah you can make fun of me, but just don’t say that I’m a bitch and that you don’t like me.”

In case you were wondering what real love and respect looks like

mxnrique

tracker-unused

no but it is potentially the start of the reverse happening, straights being put in the place of gay people, being kicked out of their homes and/or being killed because of their sexuality, if that starts it’ll set off a viscous loop that we may not be able to break out of