Will those gay Greek units be in the next build?

**the_handsome_viking** · 06-15-2006, 00:19

how do you say "Queens of combat" in Greek?

**Reverend Joe** · 06-15-2006, 04:41

I seriously doubt that EB will be including a unit of pink hoplites with no pants.

**Volume II** · 06-15-2006, 05:35

Originally Posted by Zorba

I seriously doubt that EB will be including a unit of pink hoplites with no pants.

Well, the pink part would be the hard one, because no one has pants anyway...

**general_varro** · 06-15-2006, 07:48

"Will those gay Greek units be in the next build?"

I dunno...only if their english boyfriends show up also.....

**Reverend Joe** · 06-15-2006, 18:38

Originally Posted by Volume II

Well, the pink part would be the hard one, because no one has pants anyway...

I mean, no bottom. As in 300 exposed penii and 300 pairs of testicles flapping about on the battlefield. Nope. No way in hell. That kind of smut has no place in Europa Barbarorum.

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**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 06-15-2006, 21:55

Ah yes, the gay Greeks. Actually it was 150 men and their "boyfriends." The Greeks segregated women quite a lot and it meant that they didn't have meaningful relationships with their wives, just prostitutes and pubecant boys without beards.

Although Plato was gay, read the Symposium.

Xenephon on the other hand liked girls, what a wiedo!

**Reverend Joe** · 06-16-2006, 03:56

Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall

Although Plato was gay, read the Symposium.

I think it goes beyond just homosexuality; in the Symposium, Plato seems to me to express a deep-seated fear and/or loathing of women. There is the discussion on how the "old" Aphrodite, the version born entirely of Kronos (or was it Oranos? I forget) was the "pure" version of love, because she came entirely from the Male gender; whereas the newer version of Aphrodite was "impure", since she arose from heterosexual love. Then there is the discussion on how people were once conjoined; the people who are now heterosexual are descended from the "third gender". the hermaphroditic combinations, rather than the all-male or all-female combinations. This seems to indicate that Plato definitely viewed heterosexual love as being abnormal, as are hermaphrodites.

The really weird part comes when Socrates speaks his part; he actually treats women and the Female gender with respect, even pointing out that he learned much of what he knew about love from a woman. Yet since this was all in Plato's head to begin with, and Socrates was dead by the time of the Symposium (I think- was he?) one begins to wonder just how Plato's mind really worked... kinda starts to remind me of "Psycho", where Norman Bates' mother lived on in his mind for the explicit purpose of tormenting him.

**Dayve** · 06-16-2006, 04:18

How can a whole nation treat women as lesser beings, and not just that, how can a whole nation of men be bummers? Now i have nothing against queers at all, they're people just like everybody else they have feelings and blabla, but why did the Greeks have to treat women as animals and allow them no freedom at all? And how the hell could all Greek men have been gay? I know they say 1 in every 30 men is gay... But a whole nation?