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Having a hard time figuring what the fuss is about. There are instances in history where all the actors were male and they played female parts. Gender was never fixed even in the "old" days. Gender "affirming" surgery came in the form of castration for eunichs and there were gay leaders. Silly.

The "fuss" is *entirely* Musk (who incidentally I'm positive has never read Homer beyond maybe an AI summary) throwing a tantrum because a character is played by someone insufficiently white, followed by the clickbaitosphere glomming onto said tantrum to pretend it's something larger than that.

Ahead of the film’s release, the online far-right backlash mainly targeted the diverse casting choices (especially Lupita Nyong’o as Helen) and the lack of historical accuracy, accusing Nolan of desecrating the original Homeric poem.

wired.comThe New ‘Odyssey’ Movie Is Sparking a Right-Wing Backlash. This Female Scholar Knows It WellEmily Wilson’s 2017 translation of Homer’s epic—the first by a woman—was called a woke “abomination” by online reactionaries. Christopher Nolan’s film is facing similar critiques.