I find many of these shows and movies that are accused of being woke is because they create protagonists without flaws, out of fear of making non traditional characters look bad I guess? But protagonists without flaws are boring.

I’m trying to think what Burnham’s fatal flaw is, or her deadly sin. It’s mostly stuff that has happened to her and she has to overcome but that’s not the same thing. Interesting protagonist have flaws like hubris, vice, hypocrisy, greed, something that makes them more real. You look at characters like Rey from star wars and again, flawless except for her past, which again is something that happened to her not something she is.

That’s why people didn’t like when Han Solo didn’t shoot first. Yes Han Solo is overall a good guy, but he’s also ruthless and a gangster when we meet him. If he’s already a flawless good guy at the start,that just sucks. Anakin as well, good but arrogant and controlling

He was half Roman half Phoenician which was a Semitic people, so problems swarthy and tanned. There was one called Philip the Arab, who was born in an Arab province, but I don’t think his ethnicity is known. Trajan was an earlier Emperor so the fact that he was a Spaniard provincial and not Italian was a bit of a scandal at the time.

Ex slaves, sons of slaves and other ethnic peoples could climb the ranks of Roman society and get pretty rich and respected in their own right. But there was always a ceiling for those seen as outsiders, Even in the military.

The first movie was historical fiction (if anything they toned down Commodus and his brutality in the movie) but once you do something like make the Emperor black, now it’s complete fiction. And it does matter, otherwise we wouldn’t have issues with white actors playing roles that should go to people of color.

It’s too jarring to my historian heart I think. Like a white as fuck John Wayne playing Genghis Khan

What’s with Hollywood making a character black even if it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. A black Roman Emperor? Really? The Romans were not that progressive. It feels so forced.

It’s like the producers heard emperor Macrinus was from Africa and they’re like “oh he was black!” No he was a Roman provincial born in Africa. He was not of African descent. It reminds me of that Cleopatra documentary. A complete ignorance of northern Africa and it’s ethnic populations, considering to this day northern Africans are not ethnically black.

Why not just make a movie about George Washington and hire Morgan Freeman?

Anyways, it’s weird when Hollywood race swaps. And as someone who loves roman history, the whole thing is really distracting.

People get meme crazy and start to kind of confuse the person with the memes. I remember back when Biden was VP I found all the Nice uncle Joe memes to be weird. And I’d get downvoted for saying it. I never liked his record before becoming vp due to the drug war and police militarization he assisted. I wonder sometimes if that meme status helped him get elected despite that.

I just assumed the Tyson rape thing was common knowledge.

Am I taking crazy pills? He’s a convicted rapist who spent time in prison for rape and assault. Why is everyone jumping through hoops to defend him? Literally just need to Google MIKE TYSON RAPE and it’ll pop right up. It’s common knowledge

Here I guess, though I know the Tyson boys will jump down my throat about it:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/boxing-legend-convicted-of-raping-beauty-queen

Ugh, why even give attention to a scripted fight between an old rapist and a garbage human influencer? I’m just avoiding all this stupid shit

All these pre match fights and arguments are just pro wrestling inspired, scripted drama.

The same with people who insist it’s easy to build my own gaming PC. I’m sure it’s easy to build a ps5 with all the parts as well, but I DON’T WANT TO BUILD MY OWN ELECTRONICS. I don’t care how easy they claim it is. Unless it comes out of the box, ready to plug in, I’m not interested. I don’t have the patience to go through hours of tutorials

I mean I wouldn’t say “cute”

My Aztec ancestors had indoor plumbing when yours were throwing piss on the streets lol

Lol pls save us daddy white man

I just don’t wanna hear it from you Westerners. You guys murdered half my people and suddenly you play the moral paragons

I just love Americans suddenly moralizing to everyone about war lol

Americans will murder half a country, move on to the next one without so much as an apology, then have the gal to tell the rest of the world what’s unjust and what war we should be outraged about

Yet here you are with your knickers in a bunch

It’s funny she calls herself fat but you guys freak out if anyone calls her what she calls herself

Last thing I need is parenting opinions from childless kids barely out of high school

Wearing trashy shirts on public transit is a fetish? So what if I wear a shirt that says “you’re a fat ass cause you won’t stop eating” is that free speech or?

Trashy fatty. Imagine a group of kids reading her shirt.

This whole thing is a bit hypocritical coming from Americans and Westerners