I learned this in my history of American sex class and I was completely shocked. You always think of people in the past as being less progressive, but there you go.
Maybe the number one thing I learned in college is that social “progress” is not linear. The erasure of this fact is an incredibly seductive triumph of those who would want folks to 1) buy into a conservative ethos predicated entirely on imagination and 2) stop fighting for justice because “times change; it’ll happen eventually.”
History is really fucking important.
Very well said!
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(via vintagevision)