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まさにこれだよ、地方育ちのオタクと都会育ちのオタクが絶望的に相容れない壁みたいなのを感じる瞬間…都会育ちのオタクは恵まれている自覚がまるで無いんだよ。 私は個人的に南米とかのケースのほうがマジで共感しやすい。善意じゃありません、単純に境遇が近く感じます。

why the hell is she bent like this.

This is important, so I’m writing it down. I am Japanese. When I go to another country, I enter only with that country’s permission. That permission is, in fact, me being granted a privilege. If I break the rules of that country, that privilege will be revoked. This is completely obvious and natural. It is not a human rights issue.😑

anyone with an IQ above 85 understands that the iliad and the odyssey are fictional epics. no one is debating whether her mom actually got knocked up by a god in swan form. we all know it's myth. but what people like this can't seem to grasp is that the books are real. the iliad is a real text. the odyssey is a real text. they have specific contents and those contents are not arbitrary. the elements in these stories exist to justify the actions taken in the stories. helen's not a real person, but she is a real character in the books, and her beauty is not up for debate. it's the causal mechanism for everything that follows. the entire premise of the trojan war is: "what happens when the most beautiful woman in the world is taken" not "a woman" or "an ugly woman." THE most beautiful woman alive. that's the load-bearing element of the whole trojan war. that's why agamemnon sends a thousand ships and why achilles and hector die. that's why troy burns. you remove that element, and the actions stop making sense. why would the greeks wage a decade-long war and sacrifice their greatest heroes over someone this ugly? they wouldn't and the story collapses. there's no "historical accuracy" for a myth. this is about internal coherence. fiction has rules and the rules come from the text itself. you want to make a new story with different characters? make it. no one is stopping you. people will judge it on its own merits. but when you take an existing story and remove the element that makes the plot function, you haven't "adapted" anything the story is ruined, there's no point anymore, people will be confused and won't understand the message of it. the history of one of the most important masterpieces of western culture will be desecrated, homer insulted, and you'll get your DEI golden star. well done

Helen of Troy is a mythological figure. She can be played by anyone. Her race is unimportant to the narrative. Diane Kruger’s not Greek either. Lupita Nyong’o hasn’t even been confirmed for the role but she’s one of our most beautiful actresses. Don’t be a stupid, racist grifter.

First look at Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey