And did they spread this hate?

  • ChicagoCommunist [none/use name]
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    25 days ago

    Human civilization is a lot longer than history and a lot more complex than specific normative behaviors blipping into existence at some defined point in time. Check out The Dawn of Everything for a recent anthropological perspective.

    Various cultures approach gender and sex (and thus sexuality) differently. Homophobia as we understand it can't exist universally because sexuality as a static individual trait isn't a universal conception. Though that doesn't mean there aren't other norms and deviations and whatnot.

    Caliban and the Witch is adjacent to this topic and discusses how sex and gender norms developed out of middle age Europe.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    26 days ago

    Do you mean from a historical standpoint? It depends on the culture, but it's pretty recent in its current iteration — in the west, it followed the rise of Christianity. For much of western history at least, it was considered OK to pitch, within reason (manly!) but not to catch (effeminate!). Warring states China was pretty similar. I'm less familiar with India but in any case that would have been suppressed by the Mughals.