Listening to the most recent Tragedy of the Essex episode of #LastPodcastOnTheLeft and I feel like there’s not enough grappling with the fact that these men were essentially driven to madness and cannibalism and awful death *by literal homophobia*
The straights have never been okay
These whalers coulda been lounging on a Fiji beach with a bunch of fun queens while twinks in tiny shorts brought them mai tais but nooooooooo