godspeed you! wet idiot

here's the thing, i deadass do not care if it's actually a good film, objectively or subjectively or otherwise.

a lot of people are praising it and probably for good reason! i'm not gonna pretend like Nolan isn't an amazing director / screenwriter when Inception is one of my favorite movies of all time.

but whether or not it's a well-made film is beside the point.

the point is that it was funded by Greece taxpayer dollars and yet couldn't even be bothered to hire Greek actors/actresses. or give a damn about researching and portraying Ancient Greek dialects and clothing and weaponry with any respect or effort.

it's not my responsibility to get angry on behalf of Greek peoples because I am not Greek and so you could argue this is not my circus, not my monkeys. and the last thing I wanna do is speak over Greek voices, of which there are MANY who are sharing their justified disdain for this film.

but I'd like to think I know a little thing or two about cultural appropriation and the harm that Hollywood has done in tokenizing and fetishizing and profiting off other culture's media without ever giving back to the culture that is still alive. Greece is not Atlantis, it's not like it's some long-forgotten city of myth that we can only make assumptions or best guesses about, its land and its people are still here and we're ignoring them in favor of taking the easy way out and hiring Tom Holland and Zendaya and putting them in Spirit Halloween clothing so they can recite a 2026 script that cuts out major elements of the original story and uses modern language, not because it's actually set in modern day, but because clearly the scriptwriters were too lazy or weren't confident that 2026 audiences would be able to appreciate antiquity-stylized language.

and when this movie makes hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, there's zero guarantee any of it will go back into the Greek economy. at best maybe they'll get a tourism boom from American consumers who only perceive Greece as a movie set akin to Disney World and not an actual country.

are u guys hearing this

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1. Get some water

2. Mix him into a paste

3. Form him back into shape

4. Let him dry or perhaps cook him

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“It’s easier for trans men to pass/be stealth!!”

Actually it’s easier for people with very specific bodies (white, thin, average height) with large incomes and supportive families to transition medically in a way which is more likely to conform to strict ideas of ‘man’ and ‘woman’

I swear every time I see someone try to make the argument for one of us having it better they exclusively either cite celebrities (again, see white, rich, thin) or assume that the people they know irl are representative of every trans person.

It also begs the point that YOU DO NOT KNOW IF SOMEONE IS STEALTH UNLESS THEY TELL YOU. No one actually knows how many trans people successfully live as stealth.

Most of the passing trans people I know personally are women, but most of the trans people I know to be stealth are men. I also know far more trans women than I do trans men. Not to ignore the fact that these arguments completely erase non binary people who are pressured to just pick a binary gender to ‘pass’ as because it is functionally impossible to be a ‘stealth’ non binary person.