Your puny copyright won't stop me from scouring Marx and Engels' letters to each other for any shred of evidence that they were more than friends

  • sam5673 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    On the other hand this kind of thinking is a large part of why young boys associate having close male friends with being gay.

    Can't a guy just have close friends them just being very platonically close with no sexual element doesn't make it less sweet

    • Haedda [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I know but remember those were different times, two men couldn't just openly be together. There definitely were a lot of guys who presented to the world as friends but were secretly more. I'm not saying it was like that with those two, but this is just a thing I like to imagine.

      • sam5673 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        they weren't just two guys they were Marx and Engels the respectability ship had pretty much sailed

        • Haedda [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Idk, I feel even in their social circles people wouldn't have liked it. Besides... I'm not making a claim it was definitely true in real life, I just like to ship it, you know? Like, we'll probably never find out with 100% certainty, how it was with them, but that's okay, just... let me dream 😅