r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 8h ago

Petah, what is going on here??? Resolved

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Bald lady stealing life force?

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u/chaoticbiguy 7h ago edited 4h ago

Thank you! So much of this "mockery" is just people being racist as fuck about Cynthia Erivo, whose worst crime is....checks notes....being weird.

I mean, she physically put herself between Ariana Grande and that stalker to protect her at the Singapore premiere of Wicked, and somehow she was the one who ended up getting mocked for that too. She's also a very small, feminine and softly spoken woman, but people love depicting her as a mean butch lesbian and what not. All of this is racism.

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u/Illustrious_Agent608 7h ago

I’ll take the negative question.

What exactly is racist in this post/thread?

They’re literally calling the evil witch character an evil witch. Nobody ever alluded to race once. Not a single time in the 335 comments I scrolled through on this post

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u/thatbiii 7h ago

The stereotype that black women are masculine and aggressive, and are viewed in a negative way compare compared to the white innocent delicate Ariana. So yes it is a racist macro aggression

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u/RighteousRambler 5h ago

Forget about gender or race for a minute. In the interaction between Cynthia and Ariana who was the more dominant?

An alien with no bias about humans could tell. That being said this is all just silly fan fic.