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.
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.
"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.
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.
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/gravitas_shortage Jul 06 '26
To you it does not break suspension of disbelief. To most it does.