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  • @abigail4816
    @abigail4816 Pƙed rokem +942

    "Is two guys cuddling gay?"
    That's for those guys to decide, not a random onlooker who knows not the context of their affection.
    "Is two girls cuddling gay?"
    That's for those girls to decide, not a random onlooker who knows not the context of their affection.

    • @thatonebonkchoyguy
      @thatonebonkchoyguy Pƙed rokem +28

      Context is important.
      Some older kids walked past me and my friends while I was trying to explain that liking femboys isn't gay because they look like women.
      Context is _very_ important.

    • @skylarmercykilled1986
      @skylarmercykilled1986 Pƙed rokem +42

      It can be 'gay' yes, but it can also be purely platonic, only the two people involved know which type of affection it is.

    • @cheese0827
      @cheese0827 Pƙed rokem +31

      However whether they're gay or not, they look cute as hell

    • @commandercorl1544
      @commandercorl1544 Pƙed rokem +7

      Exactly! No one decides your label except you!

    • @schokoloko2092
      @schokoloko2092 Pƙed rokem +1

      🙏 words

  • @beardlessdragon
    @beardlessdragon Pƙed rokem +235

    I don't believe in ghosts, but if people changed the pronouns of my partner in my love letters after I died, my ghost would haunt the f*** outta them for eternity

  • @blakehanna9543
    @blakehanna9543 Pƙed rokem +1329

    And the greek myths we do get taught have the gay parts conveniently omitted. We learn about Achilles, but never hear a word about him and Patroclus and how megagay they were.

    • @lampekartoffel
      @lampekartoffel Pƙed rokem +100

      This part has always baffled me. Did you seriously never learn that Achilles and Patroclus were lovers?
      Cause there sure as heck weren't anyone hiding that from me or my classmates and while there definitely was a bigger focus on the cishet Greek myths, we were also taught about the spartan army's encouragement of the soldiers having sex to strengthen their bonds and give their all for their fellow soldiers. We were also taught about the origin myth of how love started - which also explains why some feel same sex attraction.
      I can't imagine how you could even be taught about ancient Greece without learning about at least the M|M stories...

    • @isabellecasier5702
      @isabellecasier5702 Pƙed rokem +49

      I was taught that in the greek ancient times couples where promecious and gay was openly displayed as normal.
      A whole island has been dedicated to greek mytholigy and the gay experience.
      Leonardi da Vinci was gay or bi, not mutch confirmed because he lived in a strict catholic era and as sculptur and painter he lived off the commissions of the church. There is a reason why we still debate if the Mona Lisa is a female or male.
      On the other hand my classmate who was gay was throw out of the house with 1 bag of clothes when he came out of the closet ('80) luckely he had a sister and stellar classmates who copied their books and transcript for him so he could resume school in a wimp (thanks to the school lending the office copiermachine).
      But I was educated in Europe, we do tent to go by the ment "If it does not hurts me, let it be"

    • @sundalosketch4769
      @sundalosketch4769 Pƙed rokem +34

      Most of the time they want you to hyper fixate on Zeus's promiscuous life, the Hades and Persephone, and other hetero/misogynystic tales that exist. Like- they'd rather talk about how much Hera's life sucked over gay stories.

    • @Rotten_Ralph
      @Rotten_Ralph Pƙed rokem +17

      My problem with Troy in a nutshell. His cousin right, he went mad with grief about his cousin

    • @MrDoggoCraft
      @MrDoggoCraft Pƙed rokem +3

      Yes

  • @peanutbutter9018
    @peanutbutter9018 Pƙed rokem +639

    i adore my english teacher. she full on went, “oh yeah by the way, shakespeare was ✹queer✹ and he wrote this for a ✹man✹“
    she is perfect

    • @commandercorl1544
      @commandercorl1544 Pƙed rokem +42

      The colors of those macarons remind me of something, but I can't quite put my finger on it.... /s

    • @xd._.28234
      @xd._.28234 Pƙed rokem +3

      @@commandercorl1544 XDDD

    • @k0icalico
      @k0icalico Pƙed rokem +4

      @@commandercorl1544 i think it’s the colours/colors of the old lesbian flag

    • @bitvoidish
      @bitvoidish Pƙed rokem +1

      CAN WE TRADE PLEASE

    • @bastienx3420
      @bastienx3420 Pƙed rokem +1

      My english teacher is a tiny bit sexiest and we are reading 'taming of the shrew'

  • @JonahIronstone
    @JonahIronstone Pƙed rokem +856

    Re: "How is it possible for a woman to have a wife?"
    When I was a kid, my dad's best friends were a lesbian couple. (One of them gave me my first microscope!) When I was about four or five, I asked who their husbands were. My dad explained that they didn't have husbands, they loved each other-- like, holding hands love. They wanted to get married. I was very confused-- "But which one's gonna wear the tuxedo?" Big concern, that. "I bet it's [N]," I continued, "because she's taller." That made it all make sense. So long as someone wore the tuxedo, it was all good.

    • @Schnort
      @Schnort Pƙed rokem +77

      Duuuuude microscopes are so cool

    • @vidyasreeram2587
      @vidyasreeram2587 Pƙed rokem +39

      That's so cute ❀

    • @raffaelefrau9789
      @raffaelefrau9789 Pƙed rokem +43

      You made me think of my oc in a tuxedo cuz shes tall af
      Oh my GOD

    • @16poetisa
      @16poetisa Pƙed rokem +48

      Kid logic lol 😂

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine Pƙed rokem +7

      I love this story!! đŸ€©

  • @oceanmariep256
    @oceanmariep256 Pƙed rokem +235

    That lesbian bff card has to be ironic or meant to be subtle enough for closeted lesbians. It definitely feels like something someone would give her girlfriend as a joke.

  • @cynhanrahan4012
    @cynhanrahan4012 Pƙed rokem +156

    When my cousin died, her obit read "Lived with her best friend for 25 years" without naming her partner of 25 years. It just broke my heart.

  • @matrixmilky596
    @matrixmilky596 Pƙed rokem +905

    the ace attorney comic took me out man. i was doin something else while the video was on and i heard the words "intellectually attracted" and i immediately knew something aa related was on

    • @bookmarkobjectanimations123
      @bookmarkobjectanimations123 Pƙed rokem +46

      Honestly, i headcanon that pheonix and edgeworth are a couple lol.

    • @twiggledowntown3564
      @twiggledowntown3564 Pƙed rokem +7

      Have you read the Sonic Comics? I'm just wondering, since you have one of the characters as your icon.

    • @matrixmilky596
      @matrixmilky596 Pƙed rokem +8

      @@twiggledowntown3564 yeah! im currently keeping up with the sonic idw comics! sure enough surge is my favorite character so far lol

    • @shincci
      @shincci Pƙed rokem +44

      Ace Attorney gave us gays the "unnecessary feelings" mlms and "intellectually attracted" wlws 🙏

    • @twiggledowntown3564
      @twiggledowntown3564 Pƙed rokem +5

      @@matrixmilky596 I checked out one of the comics at my local library a few years back, and I swear they almost are always checked out.

  • @xxmerrydeathxx
    @xxmerrydeathxx Pƙed rokem +246

    At the peak of the "Little Miss/Mr" trend, my local yarn shop posted a bunch of ones about crafting. One of them was "Little Mx. Dropped a Stitch" and I felt personally attacked. Like thanks for having one with a gender-neutral/nonbinary form of address, but as a nonbinary person who frequently drops stitches, you don't have to call me out like that lol

    • @Lisa_Flowers
      @Lisa_Flowers Pƙed rokem +22

      As a fellow nonbinary person who also constantly drops stitches, I also feel thoroughly dragged and want it on a shirt

    • @cyan.-
      @cyan.- Pƙed rokem +3

      @@krimsonkatt yeahh. Mrs woukd be good but that's already a thing. First thing I thought of was mc

    • @lolymop333
      @lolymop333 Pƙed rokem +10

      @@krimsonkatt What I use is Mm. (Mistrum). The gender neutral equivalent to "-trix" (as in Mistress) and "-tor" (as in Mister) in Latin was "-trum". I can't think of a good way to modify it like we did -trix and -tor, but -trum works well enough. Also, it probably stemmed from algebra.

    • @violet7773
      @violet7773 Pƙed rokem +4

      @@krimsonkatt the problem with "M" is that that stands for Monsieur in French

    • @lolymop333
      @lolymop333 Pƙed rokem +1

      @@krimsonkatt Mm. IS an alternative.

  • @afairyist9981
    @afairyist9981 Pƙed rokem +705

    The Ace Attorney one was so accurate, they make such a big point of saying Lana meant she was "intellectually" attracted to Mia, there certainly couldn't have been any other kind of attraction there đŸ€Šâ€â™€ïž

    • @DrZaius3141
      @DrZaius3141 Pƙed rokem +40

      To be fair, an ace attorney wouldn't be interested either way.

    • @DonutCare564
      @DonutCare564 Pƙed rokem +16

      Ace Attorney is very accidently (?) gay lol

    • @labellelace
      @labellelace Pƙed rokem +59

      oKAy and also the fact that two of the writers have openly stated that the series took influence from yaoi and bl tropes and common storylines??? THEN went on to work on bl works both before and after ace attorney finished!?! also they draw everyone, in the words of my sibling, “with huge yaoi hands” and I will never stop screaming abt that lmfao
      Hello separated child friends reunited to lovers trope???? like that’s why edgeworth and phoenix are ~Like That~ istg

    • @sundalosketch4769
      @sundalosketch4769 Pƙed rokem +22

      @@labellelace *HUGE YAOI HANDS*

    • @shincci
      @shincci Pƙed rokem +19

      Lana/Mia is literally my favorite ship in the original AA trilogy. It's just few lines of dialogue but damn they definitely had something going on & poor Ema was too oblivious to realize it.
      (my fave AA ship in the later 3 games is also minor lesbian ship so guess that's just my type in these games)

  • @youreyestell4977
    @youreyestell4977 Pƙed rokem +597

    Peak lesbian erasure: My sister thinking I'm wearing the rainbow pin to show my support for the LGBTQIA+ community. I outed myself shortly after to her which is when she told me that she always had her suspicions đŸ˜‚đŸ˜‚đŸ€ŠđŸœâ€â™€ïž

    • @ameliasellers6396
      @ameliasellers6396 Pƙed rokem +20

      Hindsight bias at it's finest.

    • @sileudies
      @sileudies Pƙed rokem +5

      Sorry, but I’m not sure where the gay erasure is /gq

    • @xd._.28234
      @xd._.28234 Pƙed rokem +19

      @@sileudies means when people don't realize someone is lgbt+ or blatantly ommit hints or proofs, like in historian findings(letters, fossils, etc). In history most of the times is erased because convenience of them not being gay, because they don't want them to be

    • @youreyestell4977
      @youreyestell4977 Pƙed rokem +3

      @@xd._.28234 thanks for explaining it so well đŸ™đŸŒ

    • @aceofspades3257
      @aceofspades3257 Pƙed rokem +5

      @@dustygania2425what

  • @ShatteredMirror
    @ShatteredMirror Pƙed rokem +223

    'Not everything has to be gay.'
    I disagree, Jamie, have you not read Clause IV of the Gay Agenda?

    • @nanaminaokoshi7077
      @nanaminaokoshi7077 Pƙed rokem +13

      No no, my friend, Jamie is bisexual, he reads the Bi Agenda.

  • @emma-janeadamson4099
    @emma-janeadamson4099 Pƙed rokem +8

    I'm not sure if it's weirder to assume two same-sex people hugging as the volcano explodes MUST be friends, or two opposite-sex people MUST be a couple. When the lava's coming, surely you hug whoever's around.

  • @reyisdumb.
    @reyisdumb. Pƙed rokem +26

    my aunt saying this about me and gf’s halloween costumes: “oh, you two are such cute friends! now tell me who are you dressed up as again? i keep forgetting their names. aren’t they from that show about the house with the owls?”
    we were dressed as luz and amity from the owl house. a canon sapphic couple. she has seen the show, she watched it with my cousin. i had told her we were dating

  • @deldarel
    @deldarel Pƙed rokem +130

    I had no idea of Isaac Newton! I always thought he was ace. There goes my 'if we can't mobilise enough acew to invade Denmark, I can always use this extra time to invent a new system of mathematics.'

    • @questrequested9171
      @questrequested9171 Pƙed rokem +17

      he could still be ace, but just homoromantic i guess

    • @laartje24
      @laartje24 Pƙed rokem +3

      Enough aces around in history (and today) you will find someone else to make a similar joke with.

    • @commandercorl1544
      @commandercorl1544 Pƙed rokem +7

      Oh, we've got plenty of people to mobilize! We've got about 23 million ready, we're still trying to mobilize the other 90 million or so.

    • @sonyamiller4853
      @sonyamiller4853 Pƙed rokem +4

      Don't let that stop you. Invent a new system of mathematics anyway!

    • @John_Weiss
      @John_Weiss Pƙed rokem +8

      Oh, he was definitely ace/aro. As someone who's gay _and_ has a doctorate in Physics, I know _all_ about Sir Isaac.
      He was a loner. He spent nearly all of his time working. He did indeed express _ZERO interest in sex._ He also had few friends, since he was 
 rather difficult to get along with. And he was vindictive.
      I _never once_ heard about any male 
 well, _anything_ relationshipwise about Newton. And being a gay grad-student, I _definitely_ would've found out about that.

  • @user-rd5hs2cl6g
    @user-rd5hs2cl6g Pƙed rokem +172

    In English language we were learning about the poem “War Photographer”, and we were talking about context, when our teacher told us that Carol Anne Duffy was a lesbian! It was such a simple thing to say, but it made my day to hear a teacher not erase the history of a writer just because they’re gay!

    • @ameliab324
      @ameliab324 Pƙed rokem +8

      My teacher is not even positive about LGBT+, but when he knew that the author of something was homosexual and it was relevant to their art, he'd tell us. It shouldn't be a matter of one's views, it's just facts.

    • @rorolilred
      @rorolilred Pƙed rokem

      Omg!!! Yet another poet I studied at school who I didn't know was queer!!

  • @babeandandy
    @babeandandy Pƙed rokem +22

    Adding to the Literary gay erasure, Hans Christian Anderson wrote The Little Mermaid as a story for a male friend he was in love with. The friend was getting married (obviously to a woman) and in the original story the Mermaid kills herself after the Prince married another woman.
    Subtle Hans, subtle.

  • @PixelatedH2O
    @PixelatedH2O Pƙed rokem +55

    The best friends card felt like it was styled as it was on purpose. It could easily be shared between two girlfriends who're not "out".

  • @LouTaat
    @LouTaat Pƙed rokem +34

    I’m a lesbian and even though my fiancĂ©e and me are very touchy and heavy on the PDA, people still routinely assume we’re ‘sisters’ or ‘bff’s’. So when we moved in together I handmade her a cringey picture card with ‘and then we were Roommates’ slapped across the front in bold, red letters. She still giggles when she comes across the card.

    • @noaccount2494
      @noaccount2494 Pƙed rokem +17

      my favorite pickup line I heard was "Do you want to be roommates, in a historical way?"

    • @xd._.28234
      @xd._.28234 Pƙed rokem +2

      XDD ikr, but think smart, being women makes us have a shield against homophobes because they think we're just friends đŸ€ŁđŸ€Ą

  • @comiccat4650
    @comiccat4650 Pƙed rokem +65

    Historical figure: "I am a gay man whi enjoys gay sex with other gay men (in a homosexual, not in the least bit platonic, way)"
    Historians: "As friends do!"

  • @moonpail
    @moonpail Pƙed rokem +259

    Not gay erasure, but trans erasure. So I have a couple of trans friends, and being a young trans middle-schooler I get it. One night we were talking about this guy on my softball team and my mom and I used “she/her” pronouns (I did it because I wanted to make sure he was safe, I’m sorry). This friend is pretty openly trans through his grade despite his dad being super phobic, and my brother knew he was trans, so he decided to say “She’s not a girl, she’s a trans guy.”. I’m not sure if he was trying to start something or he just didn’t understand the danger of saying that bc he’s pretty phobic too, but my mom totally went off, saying, “She’s not a guy, she’s just confused.”. I got super mad and left the table without saying anything, and I feel super bad for my friend. Guess I’m not coming out anytime soon.

    • @TheoRae8289
      @TheoRae8289 Pƙed rokem +22

      I felt that like a punch in the gut because that's my stepmother and my carpool, even though this is my legal name, I've been on T for a year (with a lot of obvious features now because I haven't produced estrogen since 2016), everyone else calls me by masculine pronouns and me trying to correct her several times. Like I got put on the spot at work and the higher ups were calling me "he" and referring to me as a man, and I had to give a speech, and not a blip in her noggin.

    • @LCcoolcraft
      @LCcoolcraft Pƙed rokem +23

      I hope it gets better for you and your friend soon. đŸ’™đŸ’•đŸ€đŸ’•đŸ’™

    • @PeachJaguar7597
      @PeachJaguar7597 Pƙed rokem +14

      Dang, that really sucks, for both you and him :/

    • @m0L3ify
      @m0L3ify Pƙed rokem +32

      "Guess I’m not coming out anytime soon." I feel you. When I was 16 I thought I was straight, but I overheard my dad at a reunion tell my uncle how relieved he was the first time I brought a boy home. I was like "what the deuce? my dad wouldn't be ok with me being gay?" My parents were always so openly supportive of others but couldn't fathom their own children being gay? It's no wonder I didn't even come out to myself until I was 36. I never formally came out to my family, I just sort of fell in love and got married. It wasn't a secret by then, tho. My mom didn't get it until the very end of her life but I had to go out of my way to tell her. I thought making the family drive 3 hours across state lines to attend my big lesbian wedding by the sea where it was legal was enough of a clue that I was gay, but nope. I married a trans woman who my mother proceeded to consistently misgender for 5 years, despite constant reminders. It was infuriating. Eventually I got fed up and was like "Mom, you know I'm gay, right?" I realized that might have been part of the problem. The whole family knew, but she was shocked. "NO!" Yes mom, I'm gay. I married a woman. Every time she misgendered my wife, it disrespected us both. I'm glad I came out to her that day because she died less than a month later. It probably would have bugged me my entire life. At least on that front I got some closure. And, thankfully, my dad has always been super loving and supportive, so my fears over his comment were unfounded. He would have been ok with it the whole time. He just saw it wayyyyyy before I did and didn't know how to handle it at the time. I'll always regret not coming out as a teenager. It might not have been as accepted at the time, but turns out most of my friends were also lesbians, we just never talked about it. Life would have been different. Maybe I could have dated some of my crushes. Who knows!

    • @xd._.28234
      @xd._.28234 Pƙed rokem +10

      @@m0L3ify and thta's why acceptance is important, because if there isn't happens what happened to you :( oof.

  • @darrenk284
    @darrenk284 Pƙed rokem +309

    I am now very glad that my high school literature teachers did occasionally discuss the sexuality of the authors (E. M. Forster and Carol Ann Duffy, to be specific) and its relevance, even in our very religious high school.

    • @TheoRae8289
      @TheoRae8289 Pƙed rokem +14

      There was a vague reference to Dickinson being possibly a lesbian but then the teacher decided she must have been asexual.

    • @darrenk284
      @darrenk284 Pƙed rokem +15

      @@TheoRae8289 That's funny. Nothing against asexuality, but “Susie
 come home
 and be my own again, and kiss me as you used to
 I hope for you so much, and feel so eager for you
 that the expectation
 makes me feel hot and feverish, and my heart beats so fast.” doesn't strike me as very asexual.

    • @missnaomi613
      @missnaomi613 Pƙed rokem

      Woohoo! Progress!

    • @shjobbi
      @shjobbi Pƙed rokem

      That's right, I did study a poem by Carol Ann Duffy!

  • @freyarowell5629
    @freyarowell5629 Pƙed rokem +48

    I went to an amazing ancient Greek exhibition a while ago, and every time they mentioned Patroclus in a story about Achilles they actually called him "his lover" or "his consort", none of this "close friend", "potential lover" or even "male lover" bs. It was awesome to see.

    • @Ashley-1917
      @Ashley-1917 Pƙed rokem

      WTF?? I feel so lied to! I read the Iliad as a kid and I remember he was always referred to as a friend.

  • @scarlettptheoriginal
    @scarlettptheoriginal Pƙed rokem +22

    I went to a specialty lingerie shop to get the undergarments for my wedding dress. My fiancée came with me. The shopkeeper asked when the wedding was and we both chimed in with the date. She said, "Oh, how sweet - best friends getting married on the same day!"
    We were in our 20s at the time, both shy, and already slightly uncomfortable being in such an upscale shop, so we were too intimidated to correct her. "Yeah, haha," we said. Now, in my 40s, I have the chutzpa to correct assumptions like that. But at the time it was deeply awkward. 😂

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. Pƙed rokem +230

    After a video on Elder Lesbians, Hollywood History and ‘Heartstopper’, I feel more aware of ‘roommates’ and ‘close companions’.

    • @geckokid8265
      @geckokid8265 Pƙed rokem +2

      OMG they were roommates!

    • @Gloomdrake
      @Gloomdrake Pƙed rokem +3

      James Somerton?

    • @itsmxtwist
      @itsmxtwist Pƙed rokem +3

      They were roommates!
      Oh my god they were roommates

    • @krizhiaasuncion1093
      @krizhiaasuncion1093 Pƙed rokem +6

      @@dustygania2425 where did you get that from? from the lgbt topics? if yes then you are so wrong because being lgbt is a lot more than sex.

    • @scarlettptheoriginal
      @scarlettptheoriginal Pƙed rokem +8

      @@krizhiaasuncion1093 dusty is a troll. They're obsessed with Jamie and leave multiple hateful comments on every single one of his videos. They just can't stay away from him. Just don't respond to their comments.

  • @fangchick93
    @fangchick93 Pƙed rokem +48

    Someone tried to say that Sylveon wasn't a good trans mascot, I of course pointed out that the colour scheme exactly matched the trans flag. LMFAO

    • @xd._.28234
      @xd._.28234 Pƙed rokem +3

      lol i've seen sylveon being trans icon sm

    • @captaincaspian42
      @captaincaspian42 Pƙed rokem +2

      My dog's groomer has sylveon tattooed on his arm and a halloween espeon too! He also has blue spiked hair 😊

  • @Rongi_23
    @Rongi_23 Pƙed rokem +17

    "Gay erasure?"
    * Looks at the direction of their rainbow eraser *
    "Who took it this time?!?!"

  • @WindierIndoors
    @WindierIndoors Pƙed rokem +23

    "Excuse me! Bad grand-nephew! Rude!" Thank you for the delivery on that Jamie, had me cackling.
    Also, got to prevent a bi-erasure at work! I was joking with a coworker about how there's a good chance that there's a greater percentage of non-hetero people working at the store I'm at, and then we pondered to see if it was accurate. I brought up a bi gentleman who is married to a woman and my coworker was confused. I reminded her that just because a bi person is in a hetero relationship does not mean they are not bi. She acknowledged her mistake :)

  • @SparklerBlack
    @SparklerBlack Pƙed rokem +15

    i think the "best friends" card is for closeted pair of girls. thats the whole point. u know, you can put the card in your room so everyone can see, and no one will know

  • @ange76prkr
    @ange76prkr Pƙed rokem +26

    Hi I'm a writer! Here's how my stories became LGBT literature by accident...
    When I planned out the plot in high school I had planned all the heterosexual pairings and plot things I wanted to cover and then I had my main characters playing truth or dare and holding hands the same way I interreacted with my best friends because I wanted it to be realistic. Guess what, my fans and editors turned round and started shipping all my characters and called my series "queer and witchy" so like yeah, the parts that come out as queer in the first trilogy are based on my real-life experiences....

  • @spookshankaman1038
    @spookshankaman1038 Pƙed rokem +23

    Sappho cannot be stopped

  • @YourLocalNirvanaFan
    @YourLocalNirvanaFan Pƙed rokem +54

    Hey! I'd just like to say thanks, Jamie. I'm a trans man and for a year, my parents weren't very accepting of it, but last week my dad FINALLY came around and we went on a father-son hike. Your content was one of the few things that made me feel better during the difficult times :)

    • @bastienx3420
      @bastienx3420 Pƙed rokem

      I hope everything works out for you and people stop being little shits.

  • @fernbedek6302
    @fernbedek6302 Pƙed rokem +15

    Looking at historic photos and being like ‘is it gay erasure to say these two men were ‘friends’ or is it a sign of increasing toxic masculinity that male friends can’t [x]’. A classic struggle.

    • @leandrog2785
      @leandrog2785 Pƙed rokem +2

      Argue for both. You don't need to have an opinion on whether they were friends or lovers. After all, you're not a historian, and don't even have the prerequisite information and context to make such a conclusion.

  • @tootyfrooty3072
    @tootyfrooty3072 Pƙed rokem +13

    5:14
    That comic is based on two lines of dialogue from the first Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney game. Those sisters from the comic are from the last part (or 'case') of the first game. In the scene that inspired the comic, the older sister (Lana) talks about another female character (Mia) who died previously in the game, and reveals that they had a relationship/connection of some kind. Lana says something along the lines of "that must have been why Mia was so attracted to me" and her younger sister, Emma, quickly chimes in to say "intellectually attracted!". This has become somewhat of a meme in the Ace Attorney fandom due to the implication of Emma pulling an r/sapphoandherfriend on her sister

  • @Sky-ms2us
    @Sky-ms2us Pƙed rokem +75

    all of the alters of this system loves you equally

    • @tauon_
      @tauon_ Pƙed rokem

      i was about to say something stupid like "why are there so many did people guys!!!" then i realised i almost exclusively chat in inclusive places lol

    • @haroldgoober
      @haroldgoober Pƙed rokem

      YESSSSS

    • @Sky-ms2us
      @Sky-ms2us Pƙed rokem

      WHY CAN'T I SEE THE ANSWERS AAAA

    • @youreyestell4977
      @youreyestell4977 Pƙed rokem

      thank you đŸ„°

    • @commandercorl1544
      @commandercorl1544 Pƙed rokem

      SUPPORTIVE SYSTEM WOOO

  • @Ireallywouldrathernot
    @Ireallywouldrathernot Pƙed rokem +9

    When I was a kid our book taught us the story of Narcissus but added that the pond "distorted his image so it looked female" so it wouldn't be gay he fell in love with it.

  • @lilcrispyconnie7461
    @lilcrispyconnie7461 Pƙed rokem +19

    I never comment, but I think my gay erasure story counts for this one. My parents referred to my girlfriend as my “special friend” or my “really close friend” for the entirety of our relationship. They also allowed her and I to have sleepovers because we were both women 😅

  • @thisistheaccountname
    @thisistheaccountname Pƙed rokem +62

    3:29 This segment sort of reminds me of the author Tove Jannson. She was into men and women and tried to have representation in her writing, but people wouldn't "allow", it. And that's just the short version of it.

    • @tabbitee
      @tabbitee Pƙed rokem +6

      "Dogs, cats, what does it matter what someone likes, as long as they are happy?" - Moominmama, at some point (regarding a dog who only likes cats)

  • @Kempster_K
    @Kempster_K Pƙed rokem +10

    I feel like whoever designed the Best Friends card was totally trying to sneak that lesbian flag in haha

  • @samanthahello
    @samanthahello Pƙed rokem +6

    Love how if your in a relationship with someone of the same gender your "just friends". But then if you are friends with someone of the opposite gender you must be "more than friends".

  • @NexTakenouchi
    @NexTakenouchi Pƙed rokem +18

    "Je suis fatigue" was my go to when learning French in school (Canada), and the teacher would go around asking us, "Comment ca va?" Considering I was 8 years old complaining about how tired I was all the time, they suggested I go into counselling to my parents.

    • @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494
      @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Pƙed rokem +4

      Amazing. You had mastered the oh-so French art of existential ennui...at 8?
      I wouldn't have suggested counselling. I would have offered you a (candy) cigarette and said "C'est la vie. Toute la vie... c'est comme ça". And pulled a slow inhale on my Gauloise ;-)

  • @sbennett2435
    @sbennett2435 Pƙed rokem +34

    I vaguely remember that the beginning couple was found in Pompeii maybe? We really need to spread more historical info about LGBT community.

  • @AlienLiyzard
    @AlienLiyzard Pƙed rokem +12

    2:39 I got jumpscared by the lesbian flag while watching this video.

  • @squeaktheswan2007
    @squeaktheswan2007 Pƙed rokem +3

    (sweeps gay under rug)
    The gay left. You just missed it by five seconds.

  • @mery5989
    @mery5989 Pƙed rokem +24

    hey I was told every single one of those gay things that people are pissed about un Italian school 😊 (well except for Newton), especially all the gay greek and roman mythology, even in my reading beginner's books at six. I like that they were honest about all that

  • @max.5w
    @max.5w Pƙed rokem +4

    I just came from a very homophobic comment section and this man has restored my faith in humanity
    THANK YOU ♡

  • @lauraelaineallen21
    @lauraelaineallen21 Pƙed rokem +7

    I went to an Art High School, so we spent A LOT of time talking about Shakespeare. Plenty of Scholars argue that the sonnets written to men were not to express a sexual or romantic attraction, but were instead about him expressing admiration for his patron. And the "Dark Woman" of the sonnets was generally believes to be about a woman with dark hair. Even back in high school I was going.... "Or he could have liked a guy and a woman with dark skin..." Like seriously, I do find it hard to read the sonnets written to the fair young man, and not think of them as romantic and sexual.

  • @tomrayner6597
    @tomrayner6597 Pƙed rokem +3

    Fun fact: in addition to Michelangelo and Leonardo (da Vinci), Donatello was also probably gay. Raphael was probably straight, but this still means 75% of the turtles were LGBTQ+. 🐱🐱🐱🏳‍🌈

  • @qnkendra1523
    @qnkendra1523 Pƙed rokem +7

    So I think inadvertently classical gay erasure gave me a strong appreciation and preference for ace relationships and the existence of aces. I used to (okay still do) get so upset that they so often "ship" close friends especially in a hetrosexual traditional representation and blame that for the friends I thought I had who were just there for some weird rando idea that one day we'd hook up. I kind of love that we're figuring out about how many people were gay back in the day

  • @Rotten_Ralph
    @Rotten_Ralph Pƙed rokem +6

    I had many problems with the movie Troy, but the biggest was when they played Achilles as straight, and he was so broken up by Hector killing his ‘cousin’ Patroclus. 😂 just his beloved cousin whom he brought with him to war and shared his tent with. Totally just a cousin.

  • @flasche.
    @flasche. Pƙed rokem +14

    This is just what I need after a day of pain, stomach aches and boring-ness :D
    A perfect refresher 😌

  • @userbunny14
    @userbunny14 Pƙed rokem +33

    *is pansexual trans man* *loves to cuddle with all friends* that last one... I just want to cuddle everyone. Doesn't mean I wanna get in their pants.

  • @wulfleyn6498
    @wulfleyn6498 Pƙed rokem +1

    I think that best friend card is a joke about this.

  • @nihilum.
    @nihilum. Pƙed rokem +11

    It’s so refreshing to see all these close friends and roommates getting along together

  • @fraterehf8788
    @fraterehf8788 Pƙed rokem +1

    Isaac Newton, gay alchemist who invented calculus.
    Let’s just cut that middle bit out.
    Isaac Newton 
 
 who invented calculus.
    There ya go! Ready for the history book!

  • @sybariticcupboardrat3763
    @sybariticcupboardrat3763 Pƙed rokem +3

    Ugh. My girlfriend works in child care. One day at her work a couple of little 5 year old girls declared they were going to marry each other when they grow up. My girlfriend's idiot boss just had to open up her mouth and tell them that two girls can't get married, only girls and boys can... Not only is that factually untrue as same sex marriage is legal here, but there's a married openly gay man on staff. She was the freaking one who hired him. It pissed off one of the other employees so much that she gave a blistering lecture to her own boss about not saying crap like.

  • @tinycrimester
    @tinycrimester Pƙed rokem +12

    i mean i'm just so happy that gay people choose to date their best friends. that seems like a very strong foundation for a lifelong relationship. it's literally what i'm striving for.

  • @mikellgoldsberry8651
    @mikellgoldsberry8651 Pƙed rokem +1

    “Bad grand nephew.” 😂😂 loved it!

  • @PokhrajRoy.
    @PokhrajRoy. Pƙed rokem +152

    I disagree, Jamie: EVERYTHING. HAS. TO. BE. GAY. OR. QUEER.

    • @captkittypants
      @captkittypants Pƙed rokem +2

      I. AGREE. WITH. YOU.

    • @xxcamelia
      @xxcamelia Pƙed rokem +5

      People can also be aro, ace, etc

    • @xxcamelia
      @xxcamelia Pƙed rokem +4

      Or just like to be single

    • @theanicolesallustio4377
      @theanicolesallustio4377 Pƙed rokem +3

      Aaaaahhh! Gay Agenda!

    • @schokoloko2092
      @schokoloko2092 Pƙed rokem +3

      Yes! whenever I see two men or women doing things together and stuff, I assume they are gay. Because it makes my little heart happy! đŸ’œđŸłïžâ€đŸŒˆ

  • @jaspercat6407
    @jaspercat6407 Pƙed rokem +18

    Ok but like I hate it when people out of school assume that we still aren’t taught about stuff. Cuz in my state, we learned about queer people in literature, we had queer sex-Ed,and we just learned about intersex people. I know that it’s like this in very few places, but they say “it’s not” like it’s not at all happening.

    • @schokoloko2092
      @schokoloko2092 Pƙed rokem +1

      Well damn, you lucky. Which state do you live in? Or maybe it depends on the school or teacher..

    • @TheoRae8289
      @TheoRae8289 Pƙed rokem +2

      That's a very recent development and your area may be in a minority. Because all of those literature things I heard about from social media more than a decade after I left school, with the sole exception of Dickinson, and even then my teacher tried to say she was asexual. Hell, they GOT RID OF SEX ED at my school my freshman year.
      This is why I'm learning to be a sex educator.

    • @buggymah
      @buggymah Pƙed rokem +2

      Not at my school unfortunately. (Conservative Christian school 🙄) One time (last year) we had a English poetry project and we had to do it on a modern poet. One of the groups on my English class had to redo there entire project because the poet they did it on was a lesbian. Luckily this is my last year there. I’m going to public school next year for high school and I don’t have to be closeted any more

    • @ameliasellers6396
      @ameliasellers6396 Pƙed rokem

      You're lucky to have that haha.

    • @akitokutikabanae7010
      @akitokutikabanae7010 Pƙed rokem +1

      In a vast majority it's not. You're lucky.

  • @jaketaylor2775
    @jaketaylor2775 Pƙed rokem +4

    Thinking about how I introduced my ex to my grandparents as "my boyfriend" and months later they asked me about him and called him my "friend"

  • @erinhollow773
    @erinhollow773 Pƙed rokem +6

    I love the "intellectually attracted" one. Bi Mia rights

  • @XaranAlamas
    @XaranAlamas Pƙed rokem +5

    I feel like the artist of that Best Friends Forever card knew exactly what they were doing, just look at their expressions too!

  • @silversleeper1193
    @silversleeper1193 Pƙed rokem +4

    Me, an AFAB ace who just wants a QPR and wishes some of that relationship erasure could come their way
 😅

  • @schokoloko2092
    @schokoloko2092 Pƙed rokem +3

    Chris Hallbeck, the one with the archeology comic, is so wholesome and inclusive and funny and just so sweet. He has a CZcams channel where he uploads nearly daily one of these little cartoons. I really love those and I was so hyped that Jamie included one of his cartoons 😍

  • @mdust8409
    @mdust8409 Pƙed rokem +11

    As an aro-ace who experiences 0 romantic and sexual attraction, i also agree that gay and bi erasure is really annoying. My family very easily assume that as soon as im close to a male friend then something is going on, it's annoying because it makes it seem like i'll not be enough until having a loving partner but also because they dont do the same with my female friends that im actually more close to. Bruh, I have already said i dont care about gender. You're missing the point in multiple ways

    • @leandrog2785
      @leandrog2785 Pƙed rokem

      You shouldn't care about how good you are to people with horrible f*cked up standards. Live your own life by your own values.

  • @legendswarble2845
    @legendswarble2845 Pƙed rokem +3

    This all goes to show, heteronormativity is one hell of a drug

  • @PaleoNychus
    @PaleoNychus Pƙed rokem +4

    The one at 5:00 was in reference to chapter 5 of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney. Personally, I think it's supposed to show that Ema is being young and naive about her sister's feelings.
    I think the worst erasure is when the second game was translated to anime and they turned the lesbian couple into sisters.

    • @brynnsparrow8476
      @brynnsparrow8476 Pƙed rokem

      Fun fact, the stage play adaptation of that case turned them into cousins!

  • @dcornect53
    @dcornect53 Pƙed rokem +4

    DaVinci: "Oh my boyfriend is so handsome and kind, he is my reason to be!"
    Church: "Paint us the savior, the reason to live, the divine son."
    DaVinci: "I will paint you my reason to live looking divine for sure! He's in my... 'workshop'... right now actually."

  • @16poetisa
    @16poetisa Pƙed rokem +4

    What's extra frustrating about the archeological discoveries is that somehow two people comforting each other when they're about to die just HAS to be romantic, EXCEPT when they're both "the same gender". Like, can we just not calling these finds "the lovers"? 'Cause we don't actually know they were "in love". It's just two humans holding each other as they die.

  • @bookaddict1838
    @bookaddict1838 Pƙed rokem +1

    Please tell me I’m not the only one who waves back at the ending of vids as if he could actually see me

  • @darsterz
    @darsterz Pƙed rokem +1

    omg i was havig this video in the background while doing some stuff and when i heard "intellectually attracted" i knew it would be a rise from the ashes comic

  • @atlas4733
    @atlas4733 Pƙed rokem +3

    Oh my god! We started Shakespeare last week for English in HS and the teacher just straight up told us Bill Wigglestick was bi and laughed at some historian’s attempts to explain it away XD

  • @bladeofSteele
    @bladeofSteele Pƙed rokem +1

    "AND that's all the gay erasure to-DAe! 😃"

  • @SwashBuckTief
    @SwashBuckTief Pƙed rokem +1

    my childhood was gay erasure

  • @clarrytheclam
    @clarrytheclam Pƙed rokem +3

    Started reading Simon Cowells book ‘My Wild Life’ and he explained that, as a kid, he lived on a road with many of his school teachers, and one of these nice lady’s lived with her ‘female companion’ with many animals, no kids, just the two of them, in the 50s/60s and he didn’t twig until writing about it recently that they probably weren’t ‘just friends’ 😂😂

  • @DillyBlue
    @DillyBlue Pƙed rokem +4

    I actually love the best friends forever card for two lesbian friends.

  • @steemcgee5150
    @steemcgee5150 Pƙed rokem +4

    "And that's all the gay erasure for today!" False, it never ends 😂

  • @jessicaholscher4097
    @jessicaholscher4097 Pƙed rokem +3

    when i was in college i became obsessed with willa cather's writing. I even wrote my senior thesis on her books. the professor we had, however, was very open minded, and he pointed out that she was most likely a lesbian and even pointed out stuff in the books that hinted at that, and so we did look at the books through that lens, and it really helps to fully understand the writer.

  • @gummygecko1235
    @gummygecko1235 Pƙed rokem +2

    Finally I found you again! I'm subscribed to so many youtubers I couldn't find you in the long, long list. ITS BEEN WEEKS. LITERALLY. *Proceeds to bingewatch videos.*

  • @a_weird_mess3
    @a_weird_mess3 Pƙed rokem +1

    “And they were roommates”

  • @someonee798
    @someonee798 Pƙed rokem +1

    Fun fact being trans was actually really normal in ancient Rome because there was a myth that dionysus (God of wine) got all the gods drunk and they accidentally put the souls of women into men's bodies and vice versa 😭

  • @lucifer7935
    @lucifer7935 Pƙed rokem +8

    so here's a fun story about gay erasure:
    my very much gay friend (a guy) was taking driving lessons last week and his boyfriend countlessly picked him up after the lessons, and they hugged and everything, which the driving instructor was very much aware of. and one time my other friend, a very much lesbian girl picked him up and driving instructor would not stop refering to her as my friend's *girlfriend* from that point on, even after he told the instructor that they are not in a relationship and referred to his actual boyfriend as his partner. But his teacher just... decided to ignore it i guess?? he even joked around being very homophobic.

    • @commandercorl1544
      @commandercorl1544 Pƙed rokem +2

      Oh my god! People always say "if you're a man and a woman of a similar age and have any remote relationship you are now boyfriend and girlfriend" even if you openly state you're gay.

    • @xd._.28234
      @xd._.28234 Pƙed rokem

      so gross :(

    • @xd._.28234
      @xd._.28234 Pƙed rokem

      @@commandercorl1544 fr XD only my two highschool effeminate gay friends could not get erasured, because people would assume and understand they were gay for not being macho
      But bet that if i had a macho gay friend, a gym bro with beard, everyone would think he is straight đŸ€Ą, when usually, if men are extremely macho, are also signs of them being queer as well. I mean, i've seen in my town entire groups of 8 intimidating 6' tall bikers, fat or buffed with beards and braids, like modern vikings, and they were gay...
      But bet that if they were seen alone each of em, they'd be confused as straight.
      But in the end i like those ultra macho gays because homophobes piss their pants off. They wouldnt like in attacking 7 guys who are +6' tall and who are wider than a closet with intimidating faces and tatoos.
      I have a gay classmate who is enormous, a gentle giant,, and he told us how some homophobes he encountered, being more little than him, were scared đŸ€Ł and that shows how cowards they are, going against effeminate chill guys because they assume they're all weak... until one femboy is black belt and makes them regret it :/

    • @commandercorl1544
      @commandercorl1544 Pƙed rokem

      @@xd._.28234 Exactly. People think all gay men are feminine because "Well, if they're attracted to men they have to be feminine, because someone has to be the woman in the relationship" and it goes the opposite with lesbians.

  • @tod1way
    @tod1way Pƙed rokem +1

    I was today years old when I learned that Sir Isaac Newton had not one but two male partners.

  • @Rockas360
    @Rockas360 Pƙed rokem +1

    The Jesus one is a reference to Paul but there is also a theory that they disguised Mary Magdaleine as a dude for her to be in the portrait

  • @EvilDMMk3
    @EvilDMMk3 Pƙed rokem +1

    Got to be careful with Shakespeare, we do know that he wrote some of his sonnets at least on commission

  • @orangecrumb
    @orangecrumb Pƙed rokem +1

    i wasnt expecting to see a chris hallbeck video in this, i love his animations!!

  • @SunnySarahDee
    @SunnySarahDee Pƙed rokem +1

    The Shakespeare one was mentioned to me in school. Then I did my French speaking competition piece on Shakespeare and his attraction to men was a whole section 😂

  • @missnaomi613
    @missnaomi613 Pƙed rokem +2

    Thank you , Dr. Jamie! For this delightful romp, and for the upcoming refilling of the Gay Meter! I look forward to that!
    Whoever sees this, you are valid. Regardless of how you define yourself, how others see you, or which side of the closet door you're on. Blessed day/night to you. đŸ™â€đŸłâ€đŸŒˆđŸłâ€âš§

  • @hattie6469
    @hattie6469 Pƙed rokem +1

    The wait for more jamie content has ended the small moments of happiness these videos bring me ❀

  • @leopoldinedeisl7313
    @leopoldinedeisl7313 Pƙed rokem +1

    I, as a german find it extremly funny that you got spnsored by Babbel because everyone in gremany, austria and switzerland hates the ad's slogan "Sprachen lernen, Babbel"

  • @AdventuRyn_
    @AdventuRyn_ Pƙed rokem

    Many thanks for your videos, Jamie. We had to put down one of our cats today and watching this helped lift my spirits a bit. ❀

  • @lostinnoah8087
    @lostinnoah8087 Pƙed rokem +8

    Hi jammi!!!!!! :DDD you inspire me to keep going with my transition even though my family all tell me i’ll regret it thank you for being here

  • @kitkatmewers
    @kitkatmewers Pƙed rokem +2

    We gotta love ema, little does she know Phoenix is bi

  • @bearVshark100
    @bearVshark100 Pƙed rokem +1

    My favorite line in Harvey Birdman is still “we are a couple
. A couple of guys”

  • @catmcdermott4542
    @catmcdermott4542 Pƙed rokem +1

    whenever I see/hear stuff about LGBT erasure, I just think of the song 'History Hates Lovers' and specifically the chorus 'historians will call them close friends, besties, roommates, colleagues anything but lovers'
    and then when I hear the word 'roommates' in the song I instantly think of the vine 'and they were roommates'

  • @enimo9241
    @enimo9241 Pƙed rokem

    It reminds me so much of "2 bros chilling in a hot tub, 5 feet apart cuz they're not gay"

  • @pearlheffernan7973
    @pearlheffernan7973 Pƙed rokem

    Lol when Jamie said “it’s the time of learning” I had to remember that in Britain, it IS the time of learning while in Australia, it’s two days till the holidays.

  • @shu7429
    @shu7429 Pƙed rokem +1

    This is the last place I expected to see an ace attorney comic lmao

  • @lime4257
    @lime4257 Pƙed rokem

    And I'm glad I'm french, and learn about all the gay authors in french classes. Thank you a lot .