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10 burning questions we have after ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ finale
The Season 1 finale of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power answered many of our most pressing questions about the goings-on of Middle-earth. However, it has also left us with a hunger for knowledge that unfortunately won’t be sated until Season 2. Sure, now we know Sauron’s true identity and who the Stranger is, but what does the future hold for the elves, dwarves, humans, and Harfoots we’re grown to know and love?
Honestly, who knows! At this point, The Rings of Power has strayed far enough from J.R.R. Tolkien’s work that it’s anyone’s guess. Some things have to happen — more rings, including the One Ring, must be forged — but when, why, and how they’ll happen are mysteries we’ll just have to wait to unravel.
Still, as we settle in for the long lull between seasons, why not throw ourselves into question mode? Gather up your Tolkien books, your notes, and your favorite conspiracy theory yarn wall, because we’re going on an adventure! (If not of the body, then at least of the curious mind.)
How will the rest of the Rings of Power be forged?
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As we know from the title of the show, The Rings of Power will eventually lead to the forging of 20 rings: three for elves, seven for dwarves, nine for mortal men, and one evil ring forged in secret by Sauron himself. The Season 1 finale ends with Celebrimbor forging the three elven rings, so we know the others are soon to follow.
In Tolkien’s work, the elves’ rings are the last of the original 19 rings to be forged, so their early arrival in The Rings of Power definitely shakes up what we know from the books. However, I have a hunch that the dwarves will get their rings next, and all thanks to the friendship between Elrond and Durin. Elrond discovered the scroll that revealed that Halbrand couldn’t be King of the Southlanders, so it’s likely that he realized that Halbrand was Sauron and that he escaped. Knowing that Sauron is on the loose, he could warn the dwarves of the growing evil and encourage them to forge their own rings. Who knows if the dwarves and elves will be able to trust each other again, but at this point I just want to see my favorite duo reunite.
What’s next for the Southlanders?
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Bronwyn, Theo, and Arondir didn’t appear in the finale, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have questions about them! Now that the Southlands have been reduced to the ashy hellscape that is Mordor, where will these three and their fellow displaced Southlanders go?
Luckily, episode 7 (“The Eye”) gives us some idea of what they’ll be up to next. A garrison of Númenoreans is staying behind in Middle-earth to accompany the Southlanders to safety. Their destination? The old Númenorean colony of Pelargir, at the mouth of the Anduin river. Pelargir is part of the land that will eventually become Gondor, so it appears The Rings of Power is going to explore how the Southlanders help populate that area. However, in the books, Gondor doesn’t become Gondor until after Númenor experiences great catastrophe. We’ll have to wait a while to see the great kingdom come into its own. Also, the Southlanders still have other pressing issues to deal with, like the very real threat of Mordor. Adar and his orcs may have their home now, but who’s to say they won’t try to expand it?
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Who will take control of Mordor, Adar or Sauron?
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Season 1 of The Rings of Power ends with Sauron confidently heading into Mordor, but don’t think his rise to power will be an easy road. After all, one does not simply walk into Mordor… especially not when Mordor is currently ruled by the orc who tried to murder you. That’s right: Sauron still has orc daddy Adar to contend with.
As Adar recalled to Galadriel in episode 6, “Udûn,” he killed Sauron after his search for power led to the deaths of countless orcs. However, as we all know by now, Sauron is far from dead. And once Adar finds that out, there’s no way he’s giving up the home he’s created for his orc children without a fight.
What does Halbrand’s betrayal mean for Galadriel?
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Galadriel has spent the entirety of The Rings of Power trying to destroy Sauron, only to realize in the finale that she’s done something far worse: She’s brought him back to Middle-earth in the guise of Halbrand. Obviously, his betrayal is a terrible blow to her, as she’s worried throughout the season that she’s grown too close to the darkness. Plus, depending on how much Elrond figures out and how he reacts, her trust in Halbrand may jeopardize her relationship with the other elves.
In Tolkien’s work, Sauron deceives many people, but he never deceives Galadriel. Even when he’s in his fair form as Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, she has misgivings. Perhaps Halbrand’s breach in trust will better equip her for future Sauron encounters. After all, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger — though it will fight side by side with you, gain your trust, then flee when you realize it’s evil incarnate. We’ve all been there, Galadriel. You’ll get through this, I believe in you!
Tell me where is Celeborn, for I much desire to speak with him.
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One of the biggest bombshells of The Rings of Power — aside from the nuclear warhead that is the Sauron-Halbrand reveal — is that Galadriel’s husband Celeborn is dead. At least she thinks he’s dead. He went off to war to fight Morgoth and never returned, but we never see his body, so the jury’s still out on whether he’s actually dead.
As a fervent “Celeborn is alive” truther, I also have to point out that Celeborn doesn’t die in Tolkien’s works. In fact, he and Galadriel have a pretty happy life together, and their children (and grandchildren) are extremely important to the future of Middle-earth. Killing off Celeborn would be much more than a mere deviation from Tolkien lore; it would be more like shattering canon. Celeborn has to have been imprisoned somewhere, or perhaps he’s gravely wounded and fighting his way back to Galadriel. I simply refuse to believe he won’t be a bigger part of this show in some way!
Is Isildur really dead?
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Joining Celeborn in the “he could be dead but probably isn’t” club is Elendil’s son Isildur. Last time we saw him, he was trapped in a fire in Mordor. His Númenorean companions all believe him to be dead, and who could blame them? Not many people can survive a burning house collapsing on them or being alone in orc territory. But trust me, Isildur can (and will) do it.
Isildur has to survive because he has a massive role to play in the future of Middle-earth, including the founding of Gondor and the upcoming battle against Sauron. Unless Elendil has a secret child also named Isildur, we’re getting him back. And since Elendil released his horse Berek out into Middle-earth, there’s a good chance Isildur will get to reunite with his beloved horse. Perhaps he’ll join Bronwyn, Theo, and Arondir at Pelargir, or maybe he’ll attempt to sail home by himself. One thing is (almost) entirely certain: Isildur lives!
Just what, exactly, is going down in Númenor?
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The island of Númenor is one of the most important parts of Tolkien’s mythos, but we’ve never seen it portrayed onscreen until now. The Rings of Power strayed quite a bit from Tolkien’s legendarium with the plotline that brought Galadriel and Sauron to Númenor. However, as Elendil and Queen-Regent Míriel return home, the stage is set for Númenor’s canonical corruption.
Galadriel’s involvement in the losses Númenor suffered in Mordor will surely stir up even more anger towards the elves and the Valar. We can already see this with Elendil, who is grieving Isildur and who was noticeably colder to Galadriel when they parted ways. Plus, with the king’s recent death, Númenor will have to fill a power vacuum. Will Míriel, who vowed to return to Middle-earth and aid the elves, take her father’s throne? Or will the scheming Pharazôn take her place?
And you can’t forget Eärien’s discovery of the seeing stone, or palantír, in the king’s chambers. Perhaps she saw Míriel’s vision of the wave, or even worse, opened up a pathway for Númenor to unknowingly communicate with Sauron. Eärien, Pharazôn, and Pharazôn’s son Kemen did not have much screen time this season, but based on what the finale is setting up, it’s likely they’re about to become far more influential.
Will Disa and Durin IV try to dig more mithril? (And will the Balrog appear?)
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We were tragically denied any dwarf scenes in the Rings of Power finale, but our last look at them this season was still quite memorable. In episode 7, King Durin III discovered his son Durin IV trying to mine more mithril for the elves. He disowned his son in one of the show’s most heartbreaking scenes yet. But when Durin IV returned to his wife Disa, she said that Durin III was just jealous. In a speech that gave off some big Lady Macbeth energy, she told him that one day the two of them would rule Khazad-dûm and all other mountains, and that they would dig all the mithril they want.
That raises the question: Are they going to do some guerilla mining next season? Or will they go the full Macbeth route and make a play for the throne… with murder? The latter would be intense but interesting, positioning mithril as a corrupting force in the same way that Sauron and the (yet-to-be made One Ring) are.
But perhaps the biggest cliffhanger in the dwarves’ storyline is the teeny tiny matter of the Balrog living in the depths of Khazad-dûm. As we know from the main Lord of the Rings trilogy, the dwarves awaken this Balrog — known later as Durin’s Bane — by delving too greedily and too deep in their search for mithril. Naturally, all hell breaks loose. The Durin in “Durin’s Bane” actually refers to Durin VI, so perhaps Durin IV is safe from this Balrog. However, based on The Rings of Power‘s looseness with Tolkien’s timeline and that Balrog foreshadowing in episode 7, anything is possible.
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What will the Stranger and Nori find in Rhûn?
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The Stranger (whose real identity was heavily hinted at but never confirmed) and Nori Brandyfoot end Season 1 of The Rings of Power by setting off east towards the land of Rhûn. There, they hope to find answers about the Stranger’s past, including why he crash-landed in Middle-earth.
Nori and the Stranger’s entire plotline is completely new, so this upcoming story could go in many different directions. The uncertainty about their future is intensified by the fact that not much is known about Rhûn. We do know that it’s the home of the Easterlings, who go on to support Sauron. Tolkien didn’t go into much detail beyond that, so the creative team behind The Rings of Power might as well have free rein. The Stranger and Nori could encounter other members of the Stranger’s Istari Order. Or maybe we’ll find out more about the white-cloaked Mystics who were hunting the Stranger throughout the season. Either way, we’re headed into uncharted territory.
Will we see more of the Poppy and the other Harfoots?
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It seemed like main purpose of the Harfoot storyline was to introduce the Stranger and have him set off on an adventure with a Harfoot as his companion. However, along the way I fell in love with the rest of the Harfoots, especially Poppy Proudfellow. From her loyalty to Nori to her singing “This Wandering Day,” she quickly became a scene-stealer. But now that the Stranger and Nori are off to Rhûn, will we be hearing more from Poppy and company?
Since Harfoots and related Hobbit-y creatures don’t figure majorly into Middle-earth history until Bilbo and Frodo in the Third Age, it’s unlikely (but not impossible) that we’ll see Poppy cross paths with, say, Galadriel or the Númenoreans. However, the finale did appear to be setting Poppy up as the Harfoots’ next trail finder, so perhaps next time we see her, she’ll be guiding the Harfoots across Middle-earth. Nobody goes off-trail, and nobody walks alone! (And hopefully nobody gets written off the show just yet.)
Season 1 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is now streaming on Prime Video.
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Questions Meta needs to answer about the metaverse at Connect
Just under a year ago, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company he founded as a Harvard undergrad would change its name to Meta. “From now on, we’re going to be metaverse-first, not Facebook-first,” he said during a virtual keynote at the company’s Connect event.
Zuckerberg has spent the year since hyping all things metaverse. He’s shown off dystopian VR offices, looked at pictures of space in VR with Neil deGrasse Tyson and persuaded morethan one professional athlete to play VR games with him. He went on Joe Rogan’s podcast to extol the virtues of mixed martial arts and virtual reality. Rogan even got an early demo of Meta’s new high-end VR headset, which is expected to launch during Connect.
But the metaverse has also proved to be a massive money pit. In the last year alone, the company has lost billions of dollars on its metaverse ambitions, and the trend is unlikely to reverse any time soon. The company, which last year announced plans to hire 10,000 workers in Europe solely to build its metaverse, is now cutting staff and reorganizing teams.
So at this year’s Connect, which kicks off at 10 AM PT tomorrow with a keynote from Zuckerberg, the stakes feel even higher. And we still have a lot of questions about what it really means to be a “metaverse company.”
Can Zuckerberg explain what the metaverse even is (again)?
It’s perhaps the most obvious issue, but in the nearly a year since Zuckerberg first attempted to articulate what a metaverse is, it’s still not very clear. Last year, Zuckerberg described it as “an embodied internet where you’re in the experience, not just looking at it.” The company’s website currently says the metaverse is “the next evolution in social connection and the successor to the mobile internet.”
But what those words mean to most people is fuzzy at best. “Outside of early adopters and tech-savvy people, there’s still confusion as to what is the metaverse and what we’re going to be doing with it,” says Carolina Milanesi, a consumer analyst with Creative Strategies.
That means Zuckerberg will not only need to offer an understandable definition, but an idea of what it will mean for the billions of people already on his platform. Which brings us to…
Can it ever look cool?
This may not seem like the most important problem facing Zuckerberg’s vision for a mobile internet-replacing metaverse, but it’s one that could go a long way toward building the hype he so desperately craves. Because, right now, Meta’s metaverse looks… kind of crappy.
This was never more apparent than when Zuckerberg very earnestly shared a capture from Horizon Worlds of his avatar in front of a VR Eiffel Tower and Sagrada Familia that could generously be described as flat and amateurish. He quickly followed up with a new avatar, and promised better graphics for Horizon Worlds would be coming at Connect.
But Meta will need to show more than just graphics that look like they were created this millennium. Ideally, it would show a metaverse experience that actually looks cool. Or at least one that could appeal to people already spending time in Roblox or Fortnite or other metaverse-adjacent spaces.
Milanesi adds that it would help to show off metaverse experiences that go beyond just having meetings or hanging out with strangers in VR. “I think there are other use cases either on the education side or on the entertainment side, that might be a bit more interesting,” she says.
However, early signs suggest we shouldn’t expect drastic improvements to Horizon Worlds. According to a recent report from The Verge, the app is so buggy that the company is struggling to get its own employees to use it consistently.
How will it get creators and third-parties on board?
But that brings up another issue: for all of Zuckerberg’s talk about interoperability and making the metaverse an open ecosystem, Meta has so far shown little progress when it comes to bringing outside developers or other companies into its vision in a meaningful way.
They’ve also already alienated many creators and would-be early adopters with a 48-percent commission on sales of virtual items in Horizon Worlds. For a company that has made Apple’s “App Store Tax” a central talking point, and has made investing in creators one of its top priorities, it’s no surprise that a high take feels like a slap in the face to creators.
How will it handle harassment, misinformation and other harms?
Considering Meta’s track record on unintended harms, the company has said surprisingly little about how it plans to address these issues in the metaverse. The company has given cursory nods to trust and safety in the Metaverse — Meta policy chief Nick Clegg has talked about defining standards for the metaverse — but so far the company seems to be borrowing from the same playbook it’s always used.
Already, this is more than a theoretical problem. Meta added a “Personal Boundary” feature in February, billing it as a way for people to protect their personal space while in VR. But that update only came after reports of groping in the metaverse had already gone viral. While that update may address one form of harassment, others have noted it could also encourage other disturbing behaviors, like encircling users in an effort to virtually “gang up” on them.
It also shows that Meta is still largely reactive when it comes to safety issues: spinning up new features and quick fixes in response to a bad news cycle rather than launching with them already in place.
What about AR and non-headset enabled experiences?
We’re expecting Zuckerberg to talk a lot about virtual reality — the company is launching its newest headseat at Connect — but it’s a lot less clear how augmented reality fits into the company’s current plans. Meta has teased AR glasses, but those are likely at least two years away.
And without glasses, much of Meta’s work on AR is limited to in-app effects for Instagram and Facebook, which are popular but definitely not part of any kind of metaverse. And it’s still not at all clear that Meta has a plan for integrating its existing social platforms into the metaverse. In a recent interview with Protocol, Zuckerberg suggested the company was thinking about it, but stopped short of giving any kind of idea as to how this may work.
“For Horizon, making it so that you can create a world and share it on Facebook or Instagram, and people can just jump into it from there — that’s going to be pretty valuable,” he said. But, he added, “we need to be careful about not making it primarily a mobile experience.” The reason, he said, is because he wants the metaverse to be about new platforms and technologies, not simply an extension of the mobile products that already exist. But the fact is the market for VR headsets is still tiny compared with the number of people who use Facebook and Instagram.
And if he wants more of them onboard, they should be able to experience the metaverse in some form with the devices they already own.
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‘Strong Female Character’ questions everything we’ve ever been taught about women onscreen
If you were a kid raised on movies and TV, you’re in good company, for better or worse. And if, like Strong Female Character author Hanna Flint, you were raised by on-screen representations that either didn’t reflect you and your experiences or made a harmful mess of it, step right this way.
A film critic, pop culture commentator, and feminist of mixed British and North African heritage, Flint has penned a hilarious, poignant, and educational memoir that examines what many millennial women, especially women of colour, grew up learning from mainstream movies and TV — and are now questioning, wait, WTF? Why was Princess Jasmine overtly sexualised when her fellow white Disney princesses were not? Where was Insecure and Sex Education when we were figuring out masturbation through, what, American Pie? Who exactly did and do you picture when you see a Strong Female Character (STC) on screen?
In a vulnerable, funny, and academically brilliant memoir format, Flint weaves her pop culture obsessions through her personal history, beginning with major adolescent crushes like Devon Sawa in Casper and Freddie Prinze Jr. in She’s All That, which mostly “revolved around cute white boys because Hollywood rarely saw men of colour as romantic love interests.” Like Flint, many of us learned about sex positivity from Samantha Jones on Sex and the City after the trauma of learning about periods from Carrie or My Girl (Flint makes a “birds and bees” comment that made me squawk out loud, IYKYK).
Do you remember your first cinematic introduction to eating disorders and was it Drop Dead Gorgeous (for Flint and me, yes) or Heathers? What about your first encounters with body hair, period sex, first loves, or the porn industry in a movie or show — can you think of a recent representation that far exceeds it? Flint can and does in her book.
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Particularly examining her craving for and admiration of complex, real, diverse representation for women onscreen, Flint delves into the pop culture she’s devoured while questioning the white-centric, heteronormative, misogynist, and racist “one-ethnic-minority-fits-all” representations rolled out by Hollywood, and how common it is to project context and identity onto these cinematic standards. Importantly, Flint champions the films and TV shows that get it right, and not necessarily all recent ones (shoutout to Clueless for at at least attempting to destigmatise menstruation!) meaning you’ll leave the book with a long list of kickass intersectional feminist shows and movies to watch.
Flint spends a powerful chapter on representations of sexual assault on screen from Gone with the Wind to Game of Thrones, and another on racism, colourism, and discrimination within casting. And of course, Flint examines who exactly people are referring to when they’re talking about a Strong Female Character, the SFC trope, described as “an imperfect beast continuously reshaped by powers rarely interested beyond their bottom line” but also as one that increasingly positions women as “strong” in multiple ways. When I read the final pages of Flint’s book, I genuinely air-punched.
“She should be pushed to explore intersectional realms of being beyond what she currently is. Or she will never persist.”
“We deserve more than stock action babes, gender-swapped movies, and rebooted franchises that don’t do enough to establish female leads outside of the male shadows of the originals,” writes Flint. “Not enough films are being written or greenlit that that explore these endless possibilities and complexities of what it is to be a woman. She should be pushed to explore intersectional realms of being beyond what she currently is. Or she will never persist.”
We’re lucky enough to have an extract from Strong Female Character on Mashable from publisher Footnote Press, which you can read below. It’s from the very first chapter, and Disney fans, you need to read it. Here, Flint is describing the arrival of Princess Jasmine in 1991’s Aladdin, as Flint writes, “A world of little brown girls now had someone to see themselves in and with a name rooted in Middle Eastern history.” But it wasn’t that easy.
Extract from Strong Female Character by Hanna Flint, Chapter 1
It was a major awakening. Sometimes you don’t know what you’re missing until it’s right in front of you and here Jasmine was, in vibrant colour, confirming our existence. I wouldn’t say it was exactly like looking in the mirror – I was still a child and she is meant to be a teen, plus animator Mark Henn is said to have used his sister’s yearbook photo and Jennifer Connelly for inspiration. But even with this white man’s idea of an Arab woman, I finally saw a Disney Princess with my olive skin, my brown, almond-shaped eyes and black eyebrows, even my larger nose, reflected back. I could see the similarities between Aladdin and my brother Karim too and we both became obsessed with the film and its sequel The Return of Jafar. Now, when I played with my girlfriends at sleepovers, in the park or in the playground, I had a Disney Princess to pretend to be without anyone questioning whether I was light enough to play her.
‘Posh’, episode six in season one of PEN15 — a U.S. sitcom written by and starring Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle playing versions of themselves as teenage outsiders in the year 2000 — is a properly honest depiction of what it feels like to be told you’re too dark to play a white idol. Except, they use the Spice Girls when the half-Japanese Maya wants to be Posh Spice, but is told she must play Scary Spice, the only woman of colour in the girl group. “Because you’re different from us, you’re, like, tan,” a mean girl tells her, using the classic casual racism excuse that ethnic minorities can only play ethnic minorities (even if the people in question is a girl of East Asian descent and a woman of African heritage). A version of this ‘Spice Girl tokenism’ happened to me until Jasmine turned up. At least this Princess had a similar racial background to me compared to Melanie Brown — well, as much as a fictional character can when they are concocted in a room of white writers. Which Disney Princess are you? I was Jasmine and she was mine, and very much the only positive representation of an Arab woman I would see for years.
“Which Disney Princess are you? I was Jasmine and she was mine, and very much the only positive representation of an Arab woman I would see for years.”
I was aware that my biological father was from a country called Tunisia but as I had never been, nor had any sort of contact with him, and Mum wasn’t exactly talkative on the subject, it was as much of a foreign concept as Agrabah. For many years, that fictional city was a stand-in where I could pretend I came from, a place where I could insert my father and let my young imagination wander through the palace where I would secretly fantasise my royal family awaited. Kids with absent parents love to do that. Invent a fantastical backstory because the idea that their mother or father didn’t want you is just too hard a pill to swallow. And a palace was certainly an upgrade from the small flat our family of five lived in, where my brothers and I shared a room with a bunk bed for me and Karim and a cabin bed for my brother (Dad’s son) Nick.
That’s the other thing about the early Disney Princesses; they either become immensely wealthy through marriage or are wealthy by birth and stay that way, with the story ending once they get their man. Sure, we see the likes of Snow White, Cinderella, and Aurora doing various bits of housework, and I guess Belle manages the home she shares with her inventor dad when she’s not reading, but Jasmine doesn’t lift a finger. Hardly the most enterprising role model, is she?
But being a lady of leisure is not the most problematic thing about Jasmine. This Arab princess was overtly sexualised in a way that her white predecessors were not and even in the nineties it didn’t sit right with me. When Ariel is half-naked with just a bikini top and tail to protect her modesty, it all looks rather innocent. Even the “Kiss the Girl” sequence is awkward and endearing but Jasmine’s turquoise costume seemed solely designed to titillate. Her breasts, as well as other exotically presented female background characters, are bulging in a way that Belle’s and Aurora’s do not. Par for the course for women of colour: we often get hypersexualised at an earlier age than our white counterparts.
“Par for the course for women of colour: we often get hypersexualised at an earlier age than our white counterparts.”
Jasmine is meant to be fifteen going on sixteen, but depicted as a full-bodied woman with white voice actor Linda Larkin delivering her lines with a lower-pitched, sultry American accent. Then there are the ‘come to bed’ eyes Jasmine is often animated with when in conversation with the men around her. But the real ‘wowzer, are we really doing this in a children’s movie?’ moment is the sex slave narrative. When Jafar takes power he forces an arranged marriage with the princess and dresses her up in an even more provocative, red version that could give Princess Leia’s gold ensemble in Return of the Jedi a run for its money.
Bourenane Abderrahmene reflects in “Authenticity and Discourses in Aladdin”, the princess is victim to the Orientalist trope whereby Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) women are sexually exoticised: Jasmine is represented according to a Western imagination of the oriental female figure; she is over-sexualized through the belly dancer outfit that she wears all over the film and she is confined in the palace until her decision to escape. Jasmine is presented with a tiger pet in an attempt to push the limits of oriental exoticism and danger. Once in the sexy number, Jasmine uses seduction as a distraction tactic despite being a sheltered fifteen-year-old whose life has been rigidly structured by her overprotective father. The assumption here is that sexual promiscuity is an inherent trait. Jasmine isn’t alone in this treatment…
Strong Female Character by Hanna Flint is out now through Footnote Press.
Tory Lanez Talks Being “Blackballed” After Megan Thee Stallion Drama, Dodges August Alsina Fight Questions, & More on ‘Breakfast Club’
Tory Lanez may have seen the last two years of his career dominate headlines more for personal and legal drama than his professional endeavors, but that hasn’t stopped the Canadian rapper from trying to get the ears of the masses on his music.
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These Are The Internet’s Most Googled NFT Questions – And The Answers To Them
The Internet’s most Googled NFT question is “What is an NFT?”, new research has revealed. The study by CoinGecko, the…
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