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** "Sweet mother, I cannot weave - slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl." is popular among the LGBT community, particularily sapphic women. This is itself a mutation, as the word Sappho uses is 'paidos', a gender-neutral, grammatically masculine word which definitely does not mean 'girl' and is arguably better translated as 'youth'. Anne Carson makes the case for rendering it as 'boy' in her translation ''If Not, Winter''.
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** "Sweet mother, I cannot weave - -- slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl." is popular among the LGBT community, particularily particularly sapphic women. This is itself a mutation, as the word Sappho uses is 'paidos', ''paidos'', a gender-neutral, grammatically masculine word which definitely does not mean 'girl' "girl" and is arguably better translated as 'youth'."youth". Anne Carson makes the case for rendering it as 'boy' in her translation ''If Not, Winter''.
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** Referring to her husband, Kerkylas of Andros, as "Dick Allcock from Man Island". This is used among those who question whether Kerkylas even existed, and who believe that he was actually something between a GirlfriendInCanada and TheBeard, a fictional male lover with an [[BlatantLies obviously made-up name]], created either as a joke or to give some plausible deniability to her sexual orientation.
** "Someone will remember us/I say/even in another time." Another of Sappho's surviving fragments; it's unknown what the complete poem said, but the fragment is famous in the LGBT community as a poignant reminder of the many historic queer people whose stories are only now being rediscovered, and the countless more whose stories will never be known.
** "Someone will remember us/I say/even in another time." Another of Sappho's surviving fragments; it's unknown what the complete poem said, but the fragment is famous in the LGBT community as a poignant reminder of the many historic queer people whose stories are only now being rediscovered, and the countless more whose stories will never be known.
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** Referring to her husband, husband according to the Suda[[note]]a Byzantine-era encyclopedia[[/note]], Kerkylas of Andros, as "Dick Allcock from Man Island". This is used among those who question whether Kerkylas even existed, and who believe that he was actually something between a GirlfriendInCanada and TheBeard, a fictional male lover with an [[BlatantLies obviously made-up name]], created either as a joke or to give some plausible deniability to her sexual orientation.
** "Someone will remember us/I say/even in another time." Another of Sappho's surviving fragments; it's unknown what the complete poem said, but the fragment is famous in the LGBT community as a poignant reminder of the many historic queer people whose stories are only now being rediscovered, and the countless more whose stories will never beknown.known.
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** "Someone will remember us/I say/even in another time." Another of Sappho's surviving fragments; it's unknown what the complete poem said, but the fragment is famous in the LGBT community as a poignant reminder of the many historic queer people whose stories are only now being rediscovered, and the countless more whose stories will never be
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** "Sweet mother, I cannot weave - slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl." is popular among the LGBT community, particularily sapphic women.
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** "Sweet mother, I cannot weave - slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl." is popular among the LGBT community, particularily sapphic women. This is itself a mutation, as the word Sappho uses is 'paidos', a gender-neutral, grammatically masculine word which definitely does not mean 'girl' and is arguably better translated as 'youth'. Anne Carson makes the case for rendering it as 'boy' in her translation ''If Not, Winter''.
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** "Sappho and her Friend" is often used as shorthand for historians and archeologists turning a blind eye to blatant homosexuality. The original is from a textbook with a painting of Sappho in the throes of passion with what the textbook describes as a "friend".
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** "Sappho and her Friend" is often used as shorthand for [[HideYourLesbians historians and archeologists turning a blind eye to blatant homosexuality.homosexuality]]. The original is from a textbook with a painting of Sappho in the throes of passion with what the textbook describes as a "friend".
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** Referring to her husband, Kerkylas of Andros, as "Dick Allcock from Man Island". This is used among those who question whether Kerkylas even existed, and who believe that he was actually something between a GirlfriendInCanada and TheBeard, a fictional male lover with an [[BlatantLies obviously made-up name]], created either as a joke or to give some plausible deniability to her sexual orientation.
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** Referring to her husband, Kerkylas of Andros, as "Dick Allcock from Man Island". This is used among those who question whether Kerkylas even existed, and who believe that he was actually something between a GirlfriendInCanada and TheBeard, a fictional male lover with an [[BlatantLies obviously made-up name]], created either as a joke or to give some plausible deniability to her sexual orientation.orientation.
** "Someone will remember us/I say/even in another time." Another of Sappho's surviving fragments; it's unknown what the complete poem said, but the fragment is famous in the LGBT community as a poignant reminder of the many historic queer people whose stories are only now being rediscovered, and the countless more whose stories will never be known.
** "Someone will remember us/I say/even in another time." Another of Sappho's surviving fragments; it's unknown what the complete poem said, but the fragment is famous in the LGBT community as a poignant reminder of the many historic queer people whose stories are only now being rediscovered, and the countless more whose stories will never be known.
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* MemeticMutation: "Sweet mother, I cannot weave - slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl." is popular among the LGBT community, particularily sapphic women.
** "Sappho and her Friend" is often used as shorthand for historians and archeologists turning a blind eye to blatant homosexuality. The original is from a textbook with a painting of Sappho in the throes of passion with what the textbook describes as a "friend".
** "Sappho and her Friend" is often used as shorthand for historians and archeologists turning a blind eye to blatant homosexuality. The original is from a textbook with a painting of Sappho in the throes of passion with what the textbook describes as a "friend".
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** "Sweet mother, I cannot weave - slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl." is popular among the LGBT community, particularily sapphic women.
** "Sappho and her Friend" is often used as shorthand for historians and archeologists turning a blind eye to blatant homosexuality. The original is from a textbook with a painting of Sappho in the throes of passion with what the textbook describes as a"friend"."friend".
** Referring to her husband, Kerkylas of Andros, as "Dick Allcock from Man Island". This is used among those who question whether Kerkylas even existed, and who believe that he was actually something between a GirlfriendInCanada and TheBeard, a fictional male lover with an [[BlatantLies obviously made-up name]], created either as a joke or to give some plausible deniability to her sexual orientation.
** "Sweet mother, I cannot weave - slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl." is popular among the LGBT community, particularily sapphic women.
** "Sappho and her Friend" is often used as shorthand for historians and archeologists turning a blind eye to blatant homosexuality. The original is from a textbook with a painting of Sappho in the throes of passion with what the textbook describes as a
** Referring to her husband, Kerkylas of Andros, as "Dick Allcock from Man Island". This is used among those who question whether Kerkylas even existed, and who believe that he was actually something between a GirlfriendInCanada and TheBeard, a fictional male lover with an [[BlatantLies obviously made-up name]], created either as a joke or to give some plausible deniability to her sexual orientation.
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* MemeticMutation: "Sweet mother, I cannot weave - slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl." is popular among the LGBT community, particularily sapphic women.
** "Sappho and her Friend" is often used as shorthand for historians and archeologists turning a blind eye to blatant homosexuality. The original is from a textbook with a painting of Sappho in the throes of passion with what the textbook describes as a "friend".
** "Sappho and her Friend" is often used as shorthand for historians and archeologists turning a blind eye to blatant homosexuality. The original is from a textbook with a painting of Sappho in the throes of passion with what the textbook describes as a "friend".
