critiquing a 1910s monarchist because they are not sexist enough is an incredible bit
Some guy said he walked out because of that line. After dedicating to the trilogy like 8+ hours
It's been years since I read Return Of The King but doesn't this scene play out just like this in the book?
Yes. Someone insists it was delivered better in the book, but it's a book, line delivery is entirely up to your imagination lol.
Okay yeah that is a much better line, and reading it I am reminded how much of a Beowulf nerd Tolkien was. If you believe Old English literature and the Icelandic Sagas people used to spend a lot of time yelling about their genealogy and bragging at each other before they got down to the murdering.
The entire confrontation between Éowyn and the Witch King has so much more time to breathe in the books. It all flows directly from the charge, to Théoden falling, to the death of the Witch King before there's finally a break in the action while Merry hears Théoden's last words.
I don't believe that at all. I can believe that people were that reactionary in 2001, but they weren't that obsessed with performativity. There wasn't anything like social media where you could proclaim your righteousness to your fellow chuds.
Like it's not impossible but I bet you a nickle they're making shit up 22 years after the fact.
Chuds when a generic action man says corny a one-liner: :so-true: :soypoint-1: :hahaha:
Chuds when a woman says a corny one-liner: 😤🙄😒🥱
Bit idea: Guy who gets inordinately mad at every play on words
Like having a meltdown over MacDuff being "No man from woman born"
Like having a meltdown over MacDuff being “No man from woman born”
reactionary neoliberal redditors literally dismiss Shakespeare as having "plot holes": Sam Bankman-Fried vs Shakespeare | Chapo Trap House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdMJMPOkBcY
Love the Pride and Prejudice part. "Why didn't the Victorian woman trapped in layers of patriarchy and high society bullshit just learn to code smh"
No she was busy feeding punchcards into London's main difference engine so it would cogitate itself to sentience 150 years later and realize it at the very end of the novel it was narrating
The guy who hates puns sounds like a really fun 90's kids movie villain ngl
It's barely even a prophecy, it's more of a "the wise say" thing.
The plot is actually driving toward a final showdown between the Witch King and Gandalf, but Gandalf is pulled away at the last second to save Faramir from Denethor, and Punished Éowyn saves the day.
and he makes a YouTube video about it
OUTRAGEOUS: 17th century literary classics have gone WOKE to appease the COMMUNIST DEMOCRAT AGENDA
To be fair that is a stupid as fuck line of reasoning from Billy Shakespeare
Yes teenagers never rush into a relationship riding a wave of overwhelming emotion, what a fool
The post is about Macbeth not R+J
Implying someone isnt born because they are a c section baby is dumb AF
If anything, the new-age alternative-medicine types are going to try to cancel that for normalizing C-sections.
It gets even better: Eowyn refers to herself as a shield maiden. That's how the vikings referred to AFAB people who went raiding with them. The norse alpha chads that nazis like to worship so much fought side by side with what we'd most likely call stone butches, sword lesbians and transmascs today, and Eowyn is a direct reference to that tradition.
:grillman: has more in common with the imaginary scary brown people in his head than he ever will with a viking or a Roman gladiator. Hell, the magnum opus of Italian cinema, La Dolce Vita, openly mocks people like :grillman: as their own worst enemy.
EDIT: wanting to remove any racist implications.
If anything the book is woker. Éowyn intimidates the Witch King with her force of personality.
Waiting for the “Alien was SJW propaganda “ posts to start any moment now
Where chuds always this hung up on women have to be being portrayed as bimbos in distress? I remember in the 80's and 90's dudes were gaga over tough as nails women like Ripley and Sarah Connor and Samus Aran and Lara Croft.
Uhm... Yeah, actually, I think they were. The ultra-reactionary American right has always been around, and they've always had ultra-reactionary views on gender. Remember that middle class women working at all was still hugely controversial in the 80s and politicians spent most of the 80s and 90s blaming every single thing on working mothers and single mothers. Like if you watched the news in the 90s you'd be forgiven for thinking that a clandestine army of single moms was going around sabotaging industry and shanking people under the dark of night.
That makes sense then, I was a kid in the 90's so I wasn't aware enough yet and narratives and gender relations.
PLEASE tell me there’s some examples of articles somewhere. I need to add them to my “the same shit arguments have always been around” folder along with all the anti suffragette stuff.
Look up Murphy Brown shitstorms from the late 80's early 90's but really give Angela Davis's Women, Race and Class a read for some crazy racist, sexist shit like (I think it was) Teddy Roosevelt quoting some preacher in his state of the union about white women having a duty to have children for the typical white genocide-like arguments.
Awesome thanks I’ll look into them both. Been meaning to read Davis for years.
you’d be forgiven for thinking that a clandestine army of single moms was going around sabotaging industry and shanking people under the dark of night
:sicko-wistful:
No one:
CHUDs: This book written 80 years ago by a staunch Catholic monarchist with an idealized view of the bucolic country life of the English gentry has been infected by woke!
CHUDs, after finding out that "No man of woman born" is a Shakespeare reference: *incoherent screaming*
Thank fuck they have ZERO media analysis, because if they sat down and watched the Matrix, CHUDs would realize they are the bluepilled ones.
Can't wait until they turn on James Bond because despite being a wealthy, heterosexual, WASP man, he doesn't wait until marriage to fuck. No wait, the BIBLE is woke because da jooz believe in some of it too or that David is an SJW because he didn't let himself get stomped by the superior Goliath.
It’s super nefarious if you think about it
This kinda meming just signals to chuds that the existence of women is in and of itself “woke” and they need to know their place. Same goes for POC who just need to exist in a way that doesn’t make chuds think about their fragility
“Woke” is just a code word for “x historically disadvantaged group is being portrayed in a good light and it makes me mad”
I have just taken to replacing woke with the appropriate slur in any conversation or article, it's what they mean even if they are lying to themselves.
The woke Tolkien, who defended the Franco regime during the civil war
It's just unscientific though. The average, ahem, female, is not built athletically enough to do this. If you watch my 40-minute video essay you will find that I have even included the first paragraph of an actual medical study of the average percentual difference in muscle mass between men and women as proof that she could not circumvent a prophecy and slay an actual witch king in the real world.
Reminds me of "How does Aloy, a woman, have the muscle density to take down a robotic dinosaur?"
A statement so ridiculous on its face that even on the gaming subreddit it was on it got like -500.
Is that from that game where they also somehow tried making the argument that it was unrealistic for the main character to not wear makeup, or am I getting it mixed up with something else? I will clearly be throwing my 40-minute video essay into a highly competitive field of awful takes either way. But I have an ace up my sleeve: For the entire length of the video I'm going to speak in a really obnoxious and whiny tone of voice!
It wasn't even makeup, it was the PS5 version featuring vellus hairs on her cheek.
You just cannot kill a robot dinosaur with vellus hairs on your cheek. Not in the real world. This is all just made up in the imaginations of the creators of the game. It flies in the face of logic.
Further proof that for all of their blabbering on about how they're "actually well done female characters", pop culture reactionaries would all be fuming if Ellen Ripley or Sarah Conner existed today.
Coming someday: Someone claiming Macduff being born by c-section in Macbeth was woke
