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Bow ([personal profile] brideoffrankenstein) wrote2018-12-18 06:49 pm

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Do you know what Flavia Alaya's book William Sharp / Fiona Macleod said to me today. Do you know what nonsense it told me?

That the increased sympathy for homosexuality in the 1890s was due to men getting worried about their social power because feminism.

Yeah.
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[personal profile] bookhobbit 2018-12-19 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
I feel like it would have been the revery. If they're Worried about "feminization" men do tend to amp up the homophobia, historically.