I imagine a lot of you are probably familiar with Metatron, but if you aren't he's been on youtube for almost a decade now, making primarily very detailed and well-researched historical videos. Almost 750k subs, and over 800 videos during that time.
Couple days ago, Youtube decided to fully remove all monetization from his channel (his (extremely naive IMO) video on this is here).
Personally, I think it is obvious why this happened. Two weeks ago, he made this video pointing out that the ancient Greeks were, in fact, not actually pro-gay which got over 1 million views. And a week ago he made this other video talking about how the black Cleopatra thing was rubbish and that there were better choices to pick from if they wanted black warrior queens which got over 500k views.
And then his channel suddenly just loses all monetization? Such a strange coincidence!
I remember Overly Sarcastic Production getting super mad about the "erasure" of Achilles and Patroclus's gay relationship in the Brad Pitt movie, Troy. The movie portrayed exactly as much gay relationship between them as the Iliad, zero. The fact gays can't seem to differentiate between philia and eros says more about them than society.
It's stupid to get mad about it, but opinions were divided on that one even in ancient times, so it's less stupid than some of their other claims (e.g. calling Plato a homosexual).
Close to all of the 'homosexuals' in ancient times were aristocrats engaging in degeneracy as the wealthy and powerful often do, and basically none of them were exclusively homosexual.
What's more, it was a "love" of grown men for beardless boys, so pedophilia because if Greece is anything like other Mediterranean countries, your beard starts growing in your early teens.
Zeus and Ganymede… the thing most people don’t get is it was always pederasty/ pedophilic and I don’t for one second pretend the “gays” promoting it as something normal believed it was two grown adults fucking.
Right well pederasty was considered somewhat acceptable, at least in context, and two grown adult men was not. At the very least, it would hurt the social standing of those engaged in it.
You may as well just say they were a patriarchal, traditional het society that tolerated a bit of pederasty.