I was “black” when I read The Odyssey in high school...
...but somehow I never imagined the characters as looking like me.
Why?
Because they were GREEK characters.
I didn’t need Odysseus to look like me to appreciate his story.
I didn’t need Helen of Troy to look like me to understand her importance.
They were Greek characters from a specific culture, with a specific history.
And this is what Hollywood keeps getting wrong.
We don’t identify with characters because they look like us.
We connect with them because we recognize something human in them - their struggles, their courage, their flaws, their values.
Odysseus is a GREEK hero.
Helen of Troy is a GREEK woman.
Their identities are part of what makes their stories meaningful.
Casting Colombians and Africans and Indians as Greek ISN'T "representation."
It’s just insulting.
Stop it.
Prabowo: "Silakan kalau mau cari negara lain."
Gue:
Lah, emang nih negara punya elu doang?
Ini negara gue juga. Gue lahir di sini, kerja di sini, bayar pajak di sini. Hidup gue kagak dibiayain sama elu.
Gaji pejabat negara juga dibayar dari APBN yang berasal dari pajak rakyat. Jadi jangan mentang-mentang lagi pegang jabatan, terus nyuruh rakyat cabut.
Ngkritik pemerintah bukan berarti kagak cinta Indonesia. Justru karena ini negara gue, gue punya hak buat ngomong kalau ada yang gue anggap salah.
Yang mesti dibenerin itu kebijakannya, bukan mulut rakyatnya.
Men talk about the friend zone a lot but something that doesn't get talked about is the pain you feel as a woman when you realized you didn't have a friend...you had a man pretending to care for you so he could sleep with you.
Waktu gw kuliah dulu, ada anjing yg ngomong gini ke temen ku yg bercadar
"Makin kalian tutupi, kita makin penasaran dalam nya gimana dan makin sange dong"
Jadi jelaskan yg perlu diperbaiki itu bukan cara berpakaiaan cewe, tapi otak para laki² yg lebih rendah dari anjing itu