u/CSachen

As an Asian who lives in Asia, all this race-swapping in American Hollywood is really weird.

I don't care if Super Man or Spider Man are Black or if 007 is a woman. They exist in the modern world where heroes and villains come in all races and types. And generally, comedy and comics should be taken as tongue-and-cheek.

But whether it's A Song of Ice And Fire or Greek mythology, (neither of which are historical), the casting is inconsistent with the setting.

It would be dishonest to say that A Song of Ice and Fire is not based on Eurasia. And every region in the fictional world is a stand-in for the real world. The Norse. Catholics. North Africans. Byzantines. Mongols. Indians. In such a world, it would be pretty fucking weird if there were Asians integrated in the North. Or shirtless Scandinavians raiding with Dothraki.

Fictional worlds aside. Greek mythology is very much cultural. It's a story of Greeks and their historical neighbors who would've occupied Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa. There are plenty of tan-skinned ethnicities in this area of the world. Casting a Black actress is a far reach outside the boundaries of normalcy.

What even is the goal of this race-swapping? Does it promote national harmony to make decisions you know will stir up criticism?

AI matchmaking sounds so much better than swiping. I feel like my profile I spent time and effort writing might actually be read instead of automatically being left swiped cause they didn't like the first photo.

When I popped over to the profile review subreddit, I was expecting to see mostly bad profiles. Maybe 2/10 of the profiles featured guys who were overweight, had unclean hair, wore overtly sexual T-shirts, took all selfies with zero smiles.

But 8/10 of the guys look completely normal or even above average. And they say they haven't gone any dates in 6 months, a year, or even 5 years.

In a society where half of people are medically overweight and struggling to get paycheck-to-paycheck, an astonishing number of male redditors are middle-class professionals who regularly play sports and stay in shape.

I'm not bad-looking myself, but I don't think I look leagues better than any of these guys. If they have had no success for years, I don't know what I can do differently.

I don't know anything about Starcraft University. But whenever I see a subtitled clip it's a pro coaching a woman player, the BroodWar category on Afreeca is all former pros and female streamers, and the frontrow seats at ASL games are reserved for SC university teammates, who are all women.

What's going on here?