@andros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 2 months agoThis gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”lemmy.worldimagemessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1664arrow-down10
arrow-up1664arrow-down1imageThis gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”lemmy.world@andros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-square@Sphks@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglish108•2 months agoAnd “The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality
minus-square@tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish61•2 months agoWhich is 36 years after this guy hatched
minus-square@dangercake@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish22•edit-22 months agoCan we all agree to use “Sashayed in” rather than “hatched”?
minus-square@Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoI’m thinking something in a casual saunter with a touch of hip sway. Or whatever the tortoise equivalent of that is 🤷
minus-square@blazeknave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-22 months agoI want to like this bc I’m almost genx, but I think it’s sexist? What am I supposed to do in 2025?
minus-square@dangercake@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months agoOh you don’t stop now, you sashay harder. For all of us.
And “The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality
Which is 36 years after this guy hatched
Can we all agree to use “Sashayed in” rather than “hatched”?
Perhaps he only ambled in.
I’m thinking something in a casual saunter with a touch of hip sway.
Or whatever the tortoise equivalent of that is 🤷
I want to like this bc I’m almost genx, but I think it’s sexist? What am I supposed to do in 2025?
Oh you don’t stop now, you sashay harder. For all of us.