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shiva8512 OP t1_j2be3lv wrote

I devised a theorem, It occurred to me while I was watching a YouTube video on Shakespeare's relatively lesser known comedy "Twelfth night"

"Any form of love triangle is impossible without some homosexuality" If it doesn't have any one attracted to the same gender at a it's not a love triangle. It's a love bent line

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choma90 t1_j2bqevr wrote

A love angle

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SadLaser t1_j2ead9v wrote

No, because you've deliberately misinterpreted what a love triangle is. Love triangle is a made up term. It means whatever the creator of the term and now society has accepted it to mean and that specific meaning is a situation when two rivals vie for the affection of a third person. If two men are interested in the same woman or two women interested in the same man, there is no homosexuality. The two rivals aren't interested in each other. That isn't what a love triangle is. Maybe you think it would make more sense that way, but that's not how language works.

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nmshm t1_j2dg3js wrote

That’s a corollary of the pigeonhole principle

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