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This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 109 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Which is 36 years after this guy hatched

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Can we all agree to use "Sashayed in" rather than "hatched"?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's still more tortoise than he is gay.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

That's probably true. But like, by weight? Surface area? Gay actions per hour vs tortoise actions per hour?

Hard to nail down.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't nail tortoises down. They reeeeally hate that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Well then they shouldn't slowly walk all over the place!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

By the degree his life would change were that aspect of him to change.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah yep. His life would be significantly more different if he stopped being a tortoise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Honestly, it's debatable whether a blind tortoise with no sense of smell is expressing homosexuality just because they seek sexual gratification with an object that happens to be male. He might also fuck rocks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps he only ambled in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'm thinking something in a casual saunter with a touch of hip sway.

Or whatever the tortoise equivalent of that is 🤷

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I want to like this bc I'm almost genx, but I think it's sexist? What am I supposed to do in 2025?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Oh you don't stop now, you sashay harder. For all of us.