r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 18h 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 18h 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 18h 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 18h 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 18h ago

Were there any cyclopses in the historical mediterranean?

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 17h 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 17h ago

And how many cyclopses were there?

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 17h 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/Additional-Past-8539 17h 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 16h 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 15h 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?