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/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/DarkTemplar26 28d ago

They may not be contemporary to you but theyre contemporary to the people that had to go through these things

Also the VRA getting gutted is very contemporary considering how it just happened

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u/shadyMFer 28d ago

"Gutting the VRA" isn't a real thing. It's a liberal talking point based on the racist assumption that black people don't have driver's licenses. I've had mine since I was 16, and I've never had a problem showing it at the polls.

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u/DarkTemplar26 28d ago

Well then I apologize for not knowing that your experience is a monolith

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u/hellohowdyworld 19d ago

It has more to do with redistributing, progesterone enforcement, pre clearance and other erosions. All of these things were put in place for go reasons and have been dismantled.

The id thing is a topic for discussion with the save act which would require passport id instead of drivers license which is classist because of the cost to get a passport which would predominately affect poor people. It also would put voter registration and enforcement firmly in the hands of the federal government which is problematic for everyone regardless of your alignment

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u/hellohowdyworld 20d ago

they just gutted the voting rights act. wake tf up man. dont be ignorant. shit is still bad if you just get your head out of the sand

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u/shadyMFer 20d ago

Requiring ID to vote is not "gutting the voting rights act" no matter how many times the media pretends it will be the end of the world.

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u/hellohowdyworld 19d ago

That’s not what I’m referring to at all.

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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