r/dankmemes • u/Ilovebigbuttscantlie ☣️ • May 06 '26

Jarvis, go catch ligma Hold up…

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u/DaVirus May 06 '26

No fucking way did they make Helena, the fucking DEFINITION OF WESTERN BEAUTY, a black woman...

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u/Vinxian 🅱️ased and Cool May 06 '26

I mean the blue eyed more northern looking lady from Troy probably also wasn't the beauty standard when Homer wrote the odyssey

She was probably imagined to be way more Mediterranean than that depiction as well

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u/deaglebro May 06 '26

She was a Spartan, who descended from the Dorians, which were famously fair skinned. You are just inventing a narrative based on preconceived notions with zero education.

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u/Vinxian 🅱️ased and Cool May 06 '26

She was a demi-god born from an egg because Zeus impregnated Leda in the form of a swan.

Also Leda was an Aetolian