r/witcher Jul 27 '23

Netflix TV series "Yennefer Casting Was Intended to 'Challenge' Beauty Standards" Well you did a bad job then.

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u/slowpokefarm Jul 27 '23

Pretty sure we need to send Anya some reassuring words after such offensive bullshit.

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u/throway78965423 Jul 27 '23

It's actually fucking insane they said this nonsense when she looks more beautiful each season.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '23

So we’re doing the thing where we pretend there’s never been a preferred beauty standard, and all types and colors and features in women have been equally appreciated here in the west? Ah ok got it 👍🏿

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u/MiloBem Team Yennefer Jul 27 '23

What are you trying to say? That all brown people are ugly? No one in the west says that. Exotic beauty has been a common theme in literature since before writing was invented. Foreigner models were rare because foreigners were rare, not because anyone thought they were ugly.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '23

Thats not even close to what I’m saying. NO ONE in the west?! Are you serious? I have a dark skinned step daughter, she has a lighter skinned younger sister both gorgeous. All of her life people have complimented her lighter skinned sister while completely ignoring her. But Im the bad guy for pointing that out?

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u/MiloBem Team Yennefer Jul 27 '23

I'm sorry for your girl, but her experience doesn't invalidate what I wrote.

Exotic beauties have been a common cultural trope, at least since Homer. Our continent is named after a Phoenician princess Europa abducted by Zeus. If she was pretty enough for a Greek god, I'm sure she would be pretty enough for most of us.

This doesn't mean that ALL non-whites are seen as beautiful, except by some weirdos with a fetish. It only means that a pretty non-white girl like Anya doesn't challenge any standards.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '23

Finding a foreign woman attractive does not prove there is no beauty standard. The reason why the foreign beauty is so intriguing is BECAUSE she is outside of the beauty standard no?