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Explanation: Just a linguistics joke. "Trad" chuds often insist there are only two genders, and idolize Rome, without the first idea about Rome other than "Marble busts and strong jawed legions".
But the Latin language itself has three genders - masculine, feminine, and neuter!
Chuds: "manly white roman marble"
Actual roman marble: lots of pastel colours
Reminds me of stories of people whose native language doesn't have gendered nouns (or anything at all) figuring that shit out for the first time. Imagine pointing at random stuff and finding out that fridges and desks and different food all have fucking genders
Jokes about the Latin language are pluperfection.
Have they seen busts of most of the emperors? Especially the early ones, the only facial feature I'd describe as strong on them was the nose
You take that back right now!
Ok, that one also had a strong brow line