The character of Chief from Wonder Woman was played by Eugene Brave Rock who is from the Kanaii reserve in Southern Alberta. He took the inspiration for his character from real life WWI hero Mike Mountain Horse who is also from southern AB.
In the film Chief greets Diana in Blackfoot. Shortly after they have a conversation about how his people’s land was taken away by Steve’s people.
This is how you have First Nations representation: cast First Nations actors, draw from historical First Nations heroes and if they are going to speak a First Nations language cast someone who is part of that Nation!
He also personally created his whole look. Instead of the costume designer doing what they think a native man would wear. He included things that would have personal significance to his character, not because it looks “Indian” *side-eyes the lone ranger*
Not only did Eugene Brave Rock create Chief’s whole look, he did it because they asked him to. It was a case of, “you know this, please help us do it right.” He showed up on screen and I saw that hat and my heart was immediately happy because that is not a hat you see on Native people in Hollywood, that is a hat you see on actual Native people. That was my first inkling that Chief’s character wouldn’t hurt me. And then he introduces himself to Diana. And Patty is a gift because she didn’t caption it. And it made that line a gift to Native (especially Blackfoot) viewers, because it said, this is for you. I have a lot of feelings about both Napi and Eugene Brave Rock and they are all full of heart eyes.
‘childhood is when you idolize Batman adulthood is when you realize that the Joker makes more sense’ – this is the most Reddit thing I’ve read all day.
Childhood is idolizing Batman, adolescence is thinking the Joker is right, adulthood is realizing that Gordon absolutely doesn’t get paid enough for this shit
i read an article once that tried to “analyze” why so many people hate anne hathaway. i think the reason is because she’s a woman who sticks up for herself and stands up against sexism
Today’s fun surprise was seeing puella translated as “whore”.
The other week it was seeing Fagles’ translation of Lacaena as “Spartan whore”
op I love this because this is a problem in assyriology too and I was just bitching about it JUST today thinking about this exact same meme
to selfishly quote parts of my thesis:
“Budin
(2009) attributes it to the almost century-long struggle scholars have in
understanding terms such as harimtu, naditu and quadishtu [1] (pg. 20-31) as forms of ‘sacred prostitute’ [2].
Brooks noted even in the early days of Assyriology that ‘the number of classes
of women who [… have been] interpreted as priestess, votary, sacred prostitute,
woman of any kind is surprisingly large’ (1923, pg. 189).
[1]
Budin (2009) suggests that these terms, primarily known from contemporaneous
legal literature, roughly mean as such: harimtu, ‘a single woman not under authority of a father’ (pg. 26), naditu, a woman unable to bear children
(pg. 23), and quadishtu, a type of
priestess, perhaps a form of midwife (pg. 25). The terms entu, ishtaritu, kulmashitu, kezertu and shamhatu are also titles that have been
associated with prostitution.
[2]
Budin (2009) defines this as ‘the sale of a person’s body for sexual purposes
[…] where money or goods received for this transaction belongs to a deity’ (pg.
3). Herodotus (fl. 450 BCE) described the Babylonian custom of ‘every woman of
the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some
stranger once in her life’ (Herodotus, tr. Godley, 1.199, 1920).
basically assyriologists thought a bunch of legal titles for different women were just names for prostitutes until recently (and some think sacred prostitution actually never existed) and herodotus did not help at all
male academians across all fields have a real bias it seems
Chartreuse Abstruseness Export 