You're misrepresenting the article. It clearly states Victorian Britain had a double standard for sexuality: two naked men kissing was out of the question because it would point to homosexuality, but two naked women kissing was -- if not harmless -- at least not outrageous, because they claimed women had no sex drive and therefore the scene couldn't be construed as sexual, much less homosexual.
It has nothing to do with wokeness, please don't introduce something that's simply not there in the article. This is about erasing female sexuality.
They even assert the photographer sometimes assigned the role of a "man" to one of his models, because the point wasn't "women kissing" but "humans doing everyday activities, including kissing". They claim there was no erotic component to the photos, though I find that claim hard to believe.
It says that Victorian prudishness would never have allowed either a man and woman kissing, nor two men kissing -- the latter because of views of homosexuality. But they had no such compunctions about two women kissing because it would have been seen as non-sexual.
You seen to be reading something that isn't in this article, and using the word "woke" in a bizarre way.
Click on the first picture and you get the undertitle:
"Eadweard Muybridge first lesbian kiss Item x of 16 Eadweard Muybridge naked kiss women lesbian"
So even if not the photographer's statement or intention (though the article does also not clearly state the opposite..) and the article's author made thst up, it is like it is.
> You seen to be reading something that isn't in this article, and using the word "woke" in a bizarre way.
Those judgements are often seen quick and given easy, but not always as simple, eh??
Hell, why are we even discussing that??? Point for OP...