Context: princess Andromeda of the perseus myth was from Aethiopia, while it doesn't exactly map to modern Ethiopia, it does literally mean burnt (black) face. So yeah Andromeda was black, despite what most modern western depictions would have you believe.
Let's be fair. No one voting for trump has any reliable history education. Or any education for that matter. You can go to school, but that doesn't make you intelligent.
Helen of Troy hatched from an egg conceived by Zeus fucking a swan. But ya skin colours totally important here.
I am personally offended they chose an attractive woman. I find that objectifying and an unfair body standard for those of us with average physical features, or as doctors call us "normies".
TBF, "burnt"+"face"=/= "blackface", as it wasn't implied it was makeup, but simply their natural coloration. From your link: (emphasis: mine)
The Greek name Aithiopia (Αἰθιοπία, from Αἰθίοψ, Aithíops) is a compound derived of two Greek words: αἴθω, aíthō, 'I burn' + ὤψ, ṓps, 'face'. According to the Perseus Digital Library, this designation properly translates in noun form as burnt-face and in adjectival form as red-brown.[10][11] "As such, it was used as a vague term for darker skinned populations than the Greeks since the time of Homer.[note 1][12] The term was applied to such peoples within the range of observation of the ancient geographers, primarily in what was then Nubia (in ancient Sudan). With the expansion of geographical knowledge, the exonym successively extended to certain other areas below the Sahara. In classical antiquity, the term Africa did not refer to any part of sub-Saharan Africa, but rather, in its widest sense, to Ancient Libya—what is now known as the Maghreb and the desert to the south.
Guess they’ll have to change the saying to “ Go woke, Go $120 million domestic box office”
I never associate this myth with Ethiopia lul. Now I see why Andromeda is a gyaru in Fate GO(the closets to black people Japanese creators can illustrate while not been racists as fuck)
I mean, we can think both are inaccurate and that it also doesn't really matter, right?
I know the picture of Helen is from Nolan's Odyssey, but What's the pic of Andromeda from?
Look back, lock back, Andromeda was black!
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