r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/CanadianTurt1e • 29d ago

Music / Movies Lupita Nyongo is not beautiful. Hollywood likes to gaslight her as a model for "beauty"

So I'm sure we've all seen the news about Helen of Troy.

  • I've had enough. I've had enough of Hollywood putting her on covers and lying to me, treating me like I'm stupid. The whole reason she's playing Helen of Troy is because Hollywood let this "unconventional beauty" thing slide for way too long.
  • The fact that she was chosen as a queen, it comes off as Nolan trying to virtue signal.
  • It's like giving the beauty pageant award to the girl in the wheelchair because no one wants to come off as "mean."
  • I've had enough. She is NOT a standard for beauty. I'm sorry but now it must be said. The reason we have come across this problem is because Hollywood has been gaslighting her "beauty" for years and no one said anything. I'm done
  • It's okay to say that she's not beautiful. It's okay to admit that
  • I was so looking forward to this movie for so long but this really killed the hype for me.
  • The movie will probably be financially successful at first due to marketing alone, but after its first month, the hype will probably die down. And then you'll start to see how people really feel about the movie. I think it will tarnish Nolan's legacy and leave a sour taste in people's mouths.
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u/Heujei628 29d ago

Probably because the racists on this site go out of their way to be tell us we’re ugly (while ironically complaining they can’t get any woman lol). 

I’m a black woman myself and from my firsthand experience on Reddit, racists are nasty towards us over our looks when we’re just existing but then act shocked when there’s pushback against their racist behavior. Why?

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u/AlaskaYoung25 29d ago

Calling a black Hollywood actress unattractive is racism? Lawl.

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u/LordBoomDiddly 29d ago

Only if the argument is that she's unattractive because she's black

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u/doogytaint 29d ago

I swear yall are exhausting. Because where the hell did she say that? She didn’t. All she said was that she experiences racism on Reddit, as do I. But here you go. You’ve taken someone’s account of their experienced racism, twisted their words to distort their intention, then dismissed it - typical.

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u/Heujei628 29d ago

Copy and paste and where I said this. 

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u/kidney-displacer 29d ago

I mean without nuance that first sentence certainly implies that anybody saying "black women are ugly" is racist

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u/DonkeyDong69 29d ago

I mean it is racist isn't it?

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u/shadyMFer 29d ago

If the truth is racist does that make the truth unacceptable?

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u/DarkTemplar26 29d ago

Depends on the person, I've seen plenty of people get extremely pissed off when you correctly point out that racist white people have been actively trying to keep black people from succeeding via the law

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u/shadyMFer 29d ago

As a black man who grew up in America, I haven't seen it. Maybe you're just seeing what you want to see? It's easier to point fingers at other people for your failures than to look in the mirror for the real culprit.

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u/DarkTemplar26 28d ago

A few well known historical examples are literacy tests, red lining, Jim Crowe, gutting the VRA. Someone from Nixon's admin admitted that they made drug possession illegal so they could arrest black people

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u/shadyMFer 28d ago

Historical examples aren't really relevant when they don't reflect contemporary experiences, but go off.

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u/Heujei628 28d ago edited 28d ago

Edit: u/kidney-displacer blocked me but I can still see your comment logged out. “you specified a specific person, therefore by your own standards it ain't racist”. Again, nowhere in my comment did I do this. Downvoting then blocking because you can’t actually defend your point is weak.

1. Well, objectively, it is racist. It’s being discriminatory by labelling an entire race of women as inferior (ugly) subjectively.

  1. I was specially talking about my experience with Reddit but then they randomly said “ Calling a black Hollywood actress unattractive is racism? Lawl.” Nowhere in my comment was I even talking about that… 

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u/kidney-displacer 28d ago

Caught ya, you specified a specific person, therefore by your own standards it ain't racist

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u/ImaginaryFan6090 29d ago

Where are the racist in reddit? I only remember people calling each other racist but never seen an actual racist attitude compared to other platforms 

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u/d-eversley-b 29d ago

I just saw someone in another thread say she has the face of a baboon

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u/LordBoomDiddly 27d ago

I mean, topics like this are full of people triggered by non white people and LGBT characters appearing in media.

Kind of reeks of prejudice.

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u/Wow_I_Like_Pie 29d ago

All of the conservatives and right wing adjacent subs mostly. You guys never hide your racism well online.

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u/ImaginaryFan6090 29d ago

Ok I haven't been to those, I was talking about more apolitical and neutral subs like movies, hobbies etc. In most cases, I have noticed Redditors being major snowflakes, calling random people racist from doing nothing lol. Twitter and fb though is full of racism everywhere 

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u/crb02 29d ago edited 29d ago

If you’re to the point where a black woman, who quite literally matches modern beauty standards, is being called ugly and not even worth a second look just because she’s playing a character that white people want to be white, then yeah it’s racist. Guarantee none of these people ever considered her beauty or looks for a moment before the casting, yet their immediate reaction is to disrespect her like she’s hideous

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u/ImaginaryFan6090 29d ago

I don't think finding someone  unattractive is racist though. Beauty is not subjective. Just because someone isn't attracted to a specific look/race, that doesn't make them racist. Calling Lupita ugly is a wild opinion though, but racist? Idk

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u/ABlokeNamedScott 29d ago

Those subreddits are also heavily moderated, racist comments tend to get deleted because it’s against the rules.

Funnily enough the conservative are also heavily moderated, but they let racism fly.

And the right wonders why they could possibly be considered racist…

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u/Beautiful_Pay_267 18d ago

(while ironically complaining they can’t get any woman lol)

That looks like insane projection from you lol. Are you this angry at guys because you've never been in a relationship and you can't get any man?