Friend: hey Oxy how's it go-
Me: Isn't it super fucked up how so many students spend so much time having to study Shakespeare, his plays and sonnets in high school and it's always through a strictly cisheteronormative lens even though Shakespeare and his works were always super damn queer to the core? Very often playing with the notion of gender and its boundaries even beyond the fact that the roles of his plays were at the time all filled by men? He lusted after guys, Barbara, HE LUSTED AFTER GUYS
Friend:
Me: also, yes