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@Themios

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when i'm angry. Nuklearoption des B.I.E.R. Anti-Schwurbel-Spezialeinsatzkommandos. Skeptiker, #fckafd

Berlin Katılım Ekim 2009
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Chime | Principled thinking. Disciplined format
There is a trend in modern entertainment that has become impossible to ignore. Increasingly, movies and TV shows present women as the ultimate symbols of physical strength, speed, aggression, and combat dominance. The leader of the elite special forces team is a woman. The most feared hand-to-hand fighter is a woman. The lone soldier taking down entire battalions is a woman. It may make for exciting fiction, but the problem begins when fiction is presented as though it reflects reality. Real life has a stubborn way of refusing to cooperate with ideology. Take the U.S. Navy SEALs as an example. They are widely regarded as one of the toughest military units in the world. Out of a force of roughly 2,500 active-duty SEAL operators, there are currently no women who have completed the full SEAL training pipeline and earned the Trident. This is despite combat roles being opened to women over a decade ago. The standards are open to everyone, but the standards themselves remain extraordinarily demanding. Even among men, between 70% and 85% of candidates fail the selection process. This is not because women are unintelligent, incapable, or less valuable. It is because men and women are different. Whenever militaries around the world have expanded women's participation in physically demanding combat occupations, debates have frequently arisen over whether entry standards should remain identical or be adjusted to account for physiological differences. Critics argue that lowering standards risks reducing combat effectiveness, while supporters argue that standards should measure only what is genuinely required for the mission. The point is that the discussion itself exists because the physical differences between men and women are real—not imaginary. None of this diminishes women. It simply recognizes biology. The average man possesses significantly greater upper-body strength, greater muscle mass, denser bones, higher levels of testosterone, and superior explosive power than the average woman. These differences are exactly why sporting competitions are separated by sex in virtually every country on earth. No one sees that as discrimination. They see it as reality. This is why I find Hollywood's obsession with making women the face of physical dominance so strange. Strength is not the defining quality of womanhood. Women possess qualities that societies have depended upon for thousands of years—qualities that cannot be measured by how much weight someone can deadlift or how many enemies they can defeat in a fight. They nurture. They build families. They preserve communities. They often excel in communication, empathy, teaching, healthcare, intelligence gathering, logistics, administration, diplomacy, medicine, science, and countless other fields that are indispensable to any civilization, including the military. Supporting roles should never be mistaken for lesser roles. In fact, wars have often been won because of logistics, intelligence, communications, medicine, manufacturing, and leadership—not simply because of the people pulling the trigger. This is why I believe women do themselves no favors when they constantly feel they must become men to prove their worth. Even the entertainment industry is beginning to discover that audiences don't automatically embrace every attempt to replace traditionally male action heroes with female counterparts. The Supergirl movie project is a perfect example. When a story feels like it is trying to make a political statement instead of telling a believable story, audiences often respond negatively. Commercial success depends on many factors, but viewers generally reward authenticity more than messaging. History tells a similar story. People often point to the Amazons as proof that women historically dominated warfare. Yet beyond mythology and scattered historical references, there is little evidence that they established great military empires comparable to those built by the Assyrians, Romans, Mongols, Persians, or other civilizations renowned for conquest. Whether the Amazons existed exactly as legend describes remains a matter of historical debate. Perhaps we've been asking the wrong question. Instead of asking how women can become more like men, perhaps we should ask why women feel pressured to compete with men in areas where men possess natural biological advantages. Equality does not require sameness. Men and women are equal in value without being identical in design. A society that celebrates masculinity in men and femininity in women loses nothing. In fact, it gains the unique strengths of both. Women don't need to become the face of physical combat to be extraordinary. They already are extraordinary in ways that no action movie can adequately portray.
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evan loves worf
evan loves worf@esjesjesj·
So these guys are just like legit idiots who don’t know anything
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Cascadia Winters@CascadiaWinters·
@Themios @AtronachSign @esjesjesj My point is the oars of the Greek ship are essential, the way of the wings of butterfly are. And more importantly the crew oaring is essential part of the original plot, having losses to them being akin to losing a mast or engine failure.
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@HyperHawkMedia @Gazz_54 You are a very special kind of stupid. Did your parents try to suffocate you? Filming tax breaks are given for production of a movie in the country. Which happened. Its an incentive for creating jobs and spending money in the local economy.
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Hyper Hawk GTE
Hyper Hawk GTE@HyperHawkMedia·
@Gazz_54 Nolaaaaaaaaan STOLE 6.5 million euros of 🇬🇷 Greek Taxpayer money and used it to Vandalize and SPIT on their culture and history. Complete Disrespect of an entire race.
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Gazz@Gazz_54·
Christopher Nolan took 6.5 million euros in Greek taxpayer money to film The Odyssey in Greece for 15 days. They gave him the subsidy without telling the Greek people what the movie was actually going to be. No Greek actors. Heavy distortion of one of our most important stories. Now the world tour is skipping Greece completely. He knows exactly what he did. He disrespected our history, took our money, and now he won’t even show his face here. This is what happens when Hollywood gets comfortable pissing on other people’s culture.
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Gazz@Gazz_54·
@Jokerwarr10r_ Every single fucking time... you are just another mentally ill anti-Greek racist
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@towereyer @UnamunoAgain Are you kidding me? Its a similar ship design. The only major difference is, that the pentekonter doesnt have its oars pulled in on the picture. And for the other points of your rambling: no one, not even Nolan, has ever claimed that its a historical accurate movie.
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tower eyerl@towereyer·
@Themios @UnamunoAgain Eso no se parece en nada a un drakkar, solo en los remos. Y que ocurre con los cascos, vestuario y el caballo en impresión 3D? Eso si es de la época de Troya?
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Unamuno 📜
Unamuno 📜@UnamunoAgain·
Nolan ha puesto un drakkar vikingo del siglo IX A estas alturas mi teoría es que Nolan ha basado toda su película en un ragebait constante y quiere que veamos la película por puro morbo y hateo La única semejanza entre el trirreme griego y el dakkar eses que ambos flotan
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‘THE ODYSSEY’ had one sequence filmed in such stormy conditions on a 115ft wooden longship in the sea that many actors started vomiting. Nolan then said — “would you mind if we get the vomiting on camera?” (Source: telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/07/…)

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Cascadia Winters
Cascadia Winters@CascadiaWinters·
@Themios @AtronachSign @esjesjesj You know the 50 oars the name of the ship type comes from. Leaving the oars out of ancient ships we classified on their oars is like leaving out the wings of a butterfly.
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Factory Reset@DrunkAt12·
@catedempsey It is, however, a myth, so accuracy has never been a factor in any versions of it made so far. It is about the story, not the details. And, when it costs $250M to make, you want it to appeal widely. Cooler boat sells more tickets (the boat is real, that is why they used it...)
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Gillian Dempsey
Gillian Dempsey@catedempsey·
The Odyssey continues to vex me. Christopher Nolan thought "all boats are the same, right? RIGHT?" so instead of using any Greek boat, he's using a VIKING LONGBOAT in that movie. I can't watch it. I can't! He forgets the Greek Gods come colour-coded and with a LOT of description
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Gillian Dempsey
Gillian Dempsey@catedempsey·
@DragonShadows4 It won't look like a Viking Longship at all. Nobody mentioned Triremes and clearly they are Attic, but then by all means pick a fight with the person who reads Attic Greek, that usually works out well.
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@Dilophomasnaur1 @esjesjesj Which was modified to resemble a pentekonter. The ship design is very similar (longboat, one row of oars, no deck, one sail, similar length). These clowns are always referring to triremes, which didnt even exist in the Mycenaean period.
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Lim@Lim38878197·
@airbagged2077 @LiftyLefty @esjesjesj It doesn't look similar at all lol, its literally a Viking ship. We have a very, very good idea of ancient Greek ships from a wide period of time because they kept on sinking in the Black sea and getting incredibly well preserved there, in addition to lots of artwork.
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evan loves worf
evan loves worf@esjesjesj·
Good thing this is the correct ship
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@battlehateharm @AtronachSign @esjesjesj Its pretty simple for me, Nolan puts a lot of stock on a sense of "realism" or least tangibility, he does things like have minimal CGI or have no modern instruments in the soundtrack, even this whole ship thing got kicked off by discussion about his committment to realism where
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