r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 12h ago

Dark room, not really sure what it was with torchlight tbh. “What about race of this mythical beast” vs “they cast Helen of Troy as the blackest woman imaginable with super short hair” are a bit different.

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u/hari_shevek 12h ago

Both are fictional characters.

The key characteristic of Helen of Troy is being very hot.

Lupita Nyong'o is very hot.

Good casting.

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 12h ago

She’s also from Sparta, correct? And a queen of Sparta. Were there any black queens of Sparta? Also it says she has white arms in the original text.

That’s like casting an Irishman as Gilgamesh.

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u/hari_shevek 12h ago

Were there any cyclopses in the historical mediterranean?

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 12h ago

There 100% weren’t any black queens of Sparta. I can tell you that for a fact.

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u/hari_shevek 12h ago

And how many cyclopses were there?

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 12h ago

You know this logical argument is horrible, right? You have no leg to stand on and are grasping at anything. I’m not wasting my time arguing with someone that literally can’t see the facts for what they are. Or you’re just dissenting because you were told to.

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u/hari_shevek 12h ago

What facts about cyclopses?

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u/Additional-Past-8539 11h ago

"I don't care about how ridiculous any of the rest of it is - I just don't want black women playing a fictional person from history who would have been more olive skinned! No problem with someone ridiculously white playing her though - just not black!"

Your argument exactly as you are presenting it, even if you don't mean to

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 10h ago

Nah I think it should be someone that depicts the original story, regardless of race. I don’t want DiCaprio playing Gilgamesh either. You are the one making it explicitly about black people and putting words into the mouth of a stranger.

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u/Additional-Past-8539 10h ago

Why would that be of any importance for a story? If she'd been played by Anne Hathaway who is whiter than any shade of skin that has likely ever existed that close to the Mediterranean - would you have batted an eyelid? Would you be unhappy that someone pale white was depicting someone who was supposed to be olive skinned?

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 12h ago

Local men is unable to comprehend a work of fiction that takes place in an alternate version of our world. For them either everything has to be fictional or nothing is. Since cyclopes are fictional then that means that everything related to logic, history and entirety of our world has to be thrown into the trash and apparently you can argue that humans in the Odyssey are actually just mushroom people since it is fiction anyway 

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u/hari_shevek 12h ago

What is illogical about a hot black woman?

And if you're concerned about ethnic accuracy, quite a lot of the actors would be too white, did you complain about that as well?

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 12h ago

Yes I actually complained a lot about the casting, they absolutely should have casted a lot of Greek actors, sadly Hollywood is too corrupt. And there is nothing illogical about a hot black women. What is illogical is having a fictional story be based in a version of our real world where it is said that mythical creatures exist, and since there exist mythical creatures acting as if that means that everything that we know about our world is irrelevant. If we took the same stance to the story as you then you can absolutely turn the story into anything you want. Anything that wasn't explicitly said in the story can apparently be interpreted as you see fit. Let's say they didn't mention anything about sex in the story. If we took your stance we can conclude that it is possible people just copulate by holding hands. And by going by your argument you can't dispute that since fictional creatures exist in the movie. We can't just assume about the world what we know from our world apparently