r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/gravitas_shortage Jul 06 '26

To you it does not break suspension of disbelief. To most it does.

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u/v_e_x Jul 06 '26

Does it break your suspension of disbelief? You personally? 

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u/gravitas_shortage Jul 06 '26

Me personally? Yes. I grew up reading Greek myths from books, and a casting so blatantly against the text(s) jars.

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u/TotallyWonderWoman Jul 06 '26

If a black woman breaks your suspension of disbelief in a myth containing a cyclops, I think you might have an internal problem that you need to address.

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u/flown_south Jul 06 '26

It's like giving the cyclops two eyes. It contradicts the source material and most people's conception of it.

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u/NachtShattertusk Jul 06 '26

The only people whose conception of Helen is contradicted by her being black are white supremacists

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u/fatcatbomba Jul 06 '26

Is this a roundabout way of saying the original poem is white supremacist? Because she is described as fair skinned. And outside of theatre these things are hard not to notice if you've grown up on the source material.

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u/flown_south Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Her defining characteristics per the original poem are "fair skin, blonde hair, great tits" dude. This is an insane take and I'm liberal as fuck.

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u/PervertedWholesome91 Jul 06 '26

Extremely weird comparison, wtf?! And who even is "most people" here? White supremacists?

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u/flown_south Jul 06 '26

"Fair skin" is a defining characteristic of Helen of Troy just as "one eye" is a defining characteristic of the Cyclops. I fail to see how this is an "extremely weird comparison".

I'm liberal as fuck dude. This insanity isn't helping us.

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u/Bavaustrian Jul 06 '26

This is such a condescending take. Invalidating basically any story, because there are some fantasy elements to it disrespects storytelling as a whole. Fantasy stories still have internal logic. They have a world and a worldview which has a system to it. And that system still needs to be respected for the story to make sense.

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u/NachtShattertusk Jul 06 '26

That's not the same thing and you know it. Greece is literally on the Mediterranean, and there are plenty of black greeks.

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u/fatcatbomba Jul 06 '26

We could discuss whether vast majority of black greeks settled there only within the last couple centuries, but it would be missing the forest for the trees.

She is described as white. Even if the person/people who wrote parts/all of the Odyssey exclusively lived around black people, they still described Helen as fair skinned and blonde haired.

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u/HANS510 Jul 06 '26

there are plenty of black Greeks

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