PuertoRicanBlaze

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Was anybody else alive in the 1980s when a Supergirl movie was made? It bombed then too. Nobody is interested in a Supergirl movie.

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Do we really want to waste Batman and Wonder Woman on this clown?

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What 1 thing would you say to Homer?" Lupita Nyong'o (Helen Of Troy): "How do you feel about the screen time given to women?

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That's called a translation. This is an epithet, which is a phrase repeated with the mention of a character's name. And several translations explain within their texts what epithets are and what such phrases mean. You're not going to find a translator or serious human who thinks a metaphorical color phrase such as white-armed is referring directly to skin color. You really think once every few pages Homer was just making sure he reminded the audience that Helen was white?


There is very little specific physical description of Helen, because it's an oral tale meant to spread and be told all over. The beauty is described through the beauty's impact, allowing the audience to imagine their own image of such beauty. Specific details of the beauty come in later plays and poems from centuries and millenia later, not from Homer. Helen did not launch a thousand ships in Homer's words. Helen did not explicitly cause the war in Homer's words. That was all added in adaptations later. The fair skin and fair hair is all from medieval poetry and artwork, not from Homer.

Yeah, highly unlikely the fictional Greek queen would have been conceived of as black, but cut that shite out trying to use a translated 3,000 year-old metaphor to prove a person was white.

You should read the Iliad and the Odyssey. I just did. Pretty good reads. Odyssey is much more entertaining than the Iliad. Doing this might prevent some of you from sounding so dumb.

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Yeah, highly unlikely the fictional Greek queen would have been conceived of as black

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Without a doubt, the most destructive legislation ever put on paper.

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The Hart-Celler Immigration Amendments Act of 1965, enacted 55 years ago this week, struck down the race- and nationality-based quota law. When Lyndon B. Johnson signed the law, he modestly stated, “(T)his bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill.” Yet, the nation’s foreign-born population rose from 9.6 million in 1965 to a record 44.8 million in 2018. 


It's got to be at least double that now.

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