Listening to so many podcasts breakdown the “I am” ep of #LovecraftCountry & all of the ways this “respectable” Black woman (Hippolyta) , George’s wife was both angry & being shrunk by the people who hate AND love her. Wow...
That Hippolyta was a literal math/science genius but it was George who was the one out exploring while she stayed at home & cooked his food & raised his child...and that *HE* (the man who loved her) had no prob with that arrangement AND was the one to decide whether to...
...*allow* his adult/math/science genius wife to explore with him...wow. And the fact that “angry BW) has been used by WP but espc WW & BW as a curse or silencer for US knowing damn well they *also* have a fucking lot to be angry about as well...but as long as you hold BW ...
...under *you*, then all is right. It’s really something. And that it was DEE, Hippolyta’s daughter who saw & DREW her mother as a Space discoverer in her comics...that it was her Black daughter (who will also have ppl who hate & love her try to shrink her as well) who still...
...had that childhood innocence to push her mother to he who she is, the layers man. And on the LoveCraft Hbo pod, the writer said that in the writing room, they struggled with whether or not Hippolyta was gonna come back...because she’s a mother. Well, Uncle George is/was...
...also a father. And husband. And for the most part, we (the audience) LOVED him. We saw him as this amazing man, father, husband (baby out of wedlock aside 🙄) but *his* exploring added to how ppl loved him & his curiosity to help his people. Even the most feminist BW...
...would’ve side eyed Hippolyta if she chose to stat gone. She already alluded to her not *wanting* to go back. But “Dee needs me”. There is still a hypocrisy around mothers. We make “motherhood” the job in a way that we do not for “fatherhood”. These rules for what “man” &...
...”woman” are were force fed to us by a structure that would never fully see us as either. So why do WE enforce them so hard?
Just wow...what other show is giving us content like this?
And also, how God encouraged Hippolyta to lean into her anger. And Lord knows, when BW start doing that...loooooooots of ppl get rightfully afraid. But wind up looking to us to *checks notes* save the country...while they do...whatever the hell it is they’re doing🙄
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