dkzzzz
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Women have been "second-class citizens" in most of the world for most of history. They only got the vote in this country within the outer reaches of living memory. I hardly think most 19th century American males considered being in love with a woman "lowering themselves" compared to "noble" man-on-man relationships. Addressing poetry (other than love poetry, of course) to other men is scarcely an indicator of homosexuality. Robert Burns, for example, dedicated and addressed a great many of his poems to other men, yet he was certainly exuberantly heterosexual.
You are missing a point of my post. I am talking about ancient world and relationship to a woman as object of open affection. Not right to vote and such nor 19 century.