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In reply to the discussion: Everyone on DU is expert at something. [View all]haele
(15,015 posts)The text messages sound like they were either an 19th century children's novel about the far, exotic medieval past or the mysterious Orient, or 1920's penny-dreadfuls/soft core porn novellas.
Kipling's Just So stories comes to mind - "List' now to my story on the Pasha and the Monkey, oh Best Beloved..."
Now, it could be that these young men were being ironically affected. Playing Anachronists...
BTW, taking a feminine role in a relationship does not mean that partner is Transgender; just means that partner, if male, is Queer-Fem, according to my LGBTQ+ friends. And the relationship could be platonic rather than sexual.
IME, Conservatives tend to be really Queer about relationships that aren't totally "traditional". Close same sex relationships that aren't familial (not to mention any opposite sex relationships) always seem to have a sexual or sexual dominance component to them. You can't just be close friends. There always has to be a strong sexual male to dominate.