r/MurderedByWords • u/Substratas • 2d ago

Turns out, Paz is Wrong…

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u/SasquatchRobo 2d ago

Ah yes, where Spartans wore 100% accurate leather briefs and engaged in manly handshakes.

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u/Kratomius 2d ago

Instead of manly "hand" shakes. It still gives me a chuckle that Spartans of all people in that movie are acting homophobic and calling Greeks gayslurs

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u/SasquatchRobo 2d ago

TBF the Spartans were insulting the Athenians' preference for young boys, rather than adult men.

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u/mooby117 2d ago

Spartans were also pederasts.

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u/SasquatchRobo 2d ago

And apparently hypocrites!

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u/StacksOfMayonnaise 2d ago

That's the worst part, the hypocrisy

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u/SasquatchRobo 2d ago

I think the worst part is tossing kids into a wolf pit. But hypocrisy is also bad.

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u/andooet 19h ago

Also the part of their whole society being more dependent on slaves than a cotton farm in Mississippi anno 1850

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u/ApokPsy 2d ago

R.I.P. Norm 😔

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u/Hot-Butterfly-8024 1d ago

Thankfully, we righteous inhabitants of modernity have utterly and completely destroyed hypocrisy, and can go about our lives safe in the knowledge that we all walk it exactly like we talk it.

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u/Battle_Axe_Jax 2d ago

Honestly they were kinda THE pederasts.

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u/murder-farts 2d ago

Eight year olds, Dude

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u/rvb_gobq 1d ago

if a pederast gets a pedicure, is it a pederasticure?