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A social post and a follow up. The post shows a screengrab from the show, and the follow up shows the happy couple featured in it taking a selfie.

Tom Zohar @TomZohar • 2h
I love watching old episodes of Supermarket Sweep because these two just said they’re “business partners” who “design sets for plays” and I’m like oh I’m sure

Tim Leach
Here we are! Just celebrated our 41st anniversary. Married in 2008 on our 25th anniversary as soon as it was legal in California. We ran a business together designing and painting backdrops and sets for 27 years.

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            281·
            3 months ago

            In addition to the other comment - “Sappho and her friend” refers to the unfortunate practice by historians of portraying queer relationships in a callously heteronormative way, like referring to Sappho’s female lover as “her friend”.

            • mkwt@lemmy.world
              9·
              3 months ago

              The mythological legend regarding Lesbos was that all of the women Lesbians started having sex with each other one time when all of the men Lesbians went off to war.

              Edit: Sappho was a real poet really from Leabos, and is one of the founders of lyric poetry in Western literature. Lyric poetry here means mostly any kind of poem that’s a lot shorter than the multi-chapter epics.

              • TimewornTraveler
                1·
                3 months ago

                Man the ancient Greeks wrote all that? It sounds like something my neighbor would say. I just don’t get what the deal is that homophobic straight men have with lesbians. Are they jealous or??? Like I can at least understand the psychology behind being afraid of gay men. Since heteronormative culture doesn’t usually objectify men, it can be unfamiliar and frightening for a straight man to reckon with the prospect of being the object of male desire, and they turn that fear into hate. But why do some men get all like, “Those dang lesbians!!” Like bruh why u care??? Like you think suddenly the world doesn’t need you cuz lesbians exist or something? Aint none of us essential based solely on pre-existing biological factors, wake up and face it. Except super kidney regeneration boy, he’s a life safer. I was supposed to go to bed half an hour ago

                • mkwt@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  Sure, it’s a junk story. But that’s what I learned from my AP Latin teacher.

                • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  I think it’s just curiosity and being excluded, tbh. That manifests itself differently based on how bigoted you are.

      • 0laura@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        a greek poet. “sappho and her friend” makes fun of straight people pretending that an obviously homosexual relationship is just a friendship