Crying Over Historical Male Friendship

"The higher the light in which this relation was regarded, the lower sank intercourse with women." —Friedrich Nietzsche (1878) "All the sons of samurai strove to emulate Jinmusue... By leave became the fashion, and the one between men and women went into precipitous decline." —Ihara Saikaku (1675)

Two crying Wojak-style women react to quotations attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche and Ihara Saikaku about idealized male relationships and declining relations between men and women. The joke contrasts their exaggerated grief with classical Greek and samurai imagery, mocking romanticized claims that male intimacy was historically superior to heterosexual relationships.

• @eternalclassic / 17923 2022-08-19