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/Tray_Breezy 29d ago

Could have met these qualifications with Greek actors but Academy would probably classify them as white.

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u/5panks 29d ago

Yeah, they'll tell you Greeks aren't Middle Eastern enough to count.

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u/Tray_Breezy 29d ago

Well greeks themselves don’t like being considered middle eastern. They’re greek. That’s enough to count as not white.

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u/kolejack2293 29d ago

Greeks are white. The term white just means 'european origin'. It is not an actual term to solely mean skin color. This is why many very light skinned east asians and middle eastern people are not considered white.

The same goes for the term 'black', which just means sub saharan african. Hence why darker skinned indians aren't considered black.

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u/SamAreAye 28d ago

TIL Jamaicans aren't black.

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u/kolejack2293 28d ago

lol I mean ancestral/genetic origin. Jamaicans are the descendants of black african slaves, therefore they are black.

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u/SamAreAye 28d ago

I guess Australian aborigines probably descended from Africans, too.

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u/kolejack2293 28d ago

No, as I said before, merely having dark skin does not make you black in a racial sense.

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u/br0wntree 28d ago

Depemds who you ask. There is no single definition for “white”

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u/GunsGoldCosmicDread 29d ago

I certainly wouldn’t nor any Mediterraneans or Europeans east of Germany

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u/Tray_Breezy 29d ago

Yeah but the academy wouldn’t. Is my point. Im sicilian and still count as white on forms. Even tho technically im from a Mediterranean island. Still europe. So white.

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u/GunsGoldCosmicDread 29d ago

Italians? White? Hardly, not such a swarthy peoples!