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That is tier 3 meme, you need to know egyptian panteon and their relations with each other.
Is this case, Thoth and Isis had mentor-father figure realtion
Coupling that with photo of a married couple and making assumyions that Katy Perry is Isis and Bloom Thoth, final joke is incest
But are they related? If not it's not much of a joke.
Not related but the correlation is that Orlando bloom.was her father figure to Katy perry so while not incest more like groomed
so, orlando grooms ?
Underrated
Damn you take my upvote
Fuck, that's fresh! So good.
Orlando Bloom is just 8 years older than her and they were both millionaires in their 30s when they got married. Sure, he would have been 39, but still.
Yeah, to explain that joke i just did Quick google search, i just noticed that patern, withou knowing any of egyptian lore beforehand, so i swapped grooming with incest by negligence
Well Isis the sister-wife of Osiris. So yeah, I can see the confusion.
I mean Katy Perry, who’s had a British husband before, is susceptible to grooming because her music seems like she has the mental capacity of a child.
Hey!!! That's a female astronaut. You're bad mouthing!! have some respect.
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Just when we thought Perry made so much progress in feminism by going to space, redditors just have to go and ruin it!
So sad. I hope Bezos fly her into space again to bring back feminism. Make it one-way only, so feminism can't be ruined by redditors again. 🙏
Next time, she should go to Mars
She cant. Did you not read the book men are from mars, women are from Venus?
That's such a reach, I really hope you did your stretches
I don't think there is much of a joke other than both these people - as of lately - have been getting some attention for being extra shitty rich people (the space travel, bezzos wedding) so the choice of a Photo where they are both being awfuly white and rich (in egypt wearing what seems to be costumes) is sort of awful. That Said, It could be that them being awful is not even relevant but Just the combo of bad news+ silly picture.
Edit: I don't even know why you guys are getting so heated over me saying "awfully white", that is clearly just an expression to explain "maybe they think they are acting too priviledged" - I am an "awfully white" person myself and I Just mean It as "I am Very vanilla and sometimes do stupid white people shit". I am not trying to be a moral compass here, you guys can chill.
Yeah, wearing a white scarf in the desert heat is not allowed if you are not from a desert culture.Â
They should've just gotten heatstrokeÂ
If you go to Egypt, no one wears the covering Perry is wearing. It looks like a headwrap from a luxury resort or something like this, it's definitely not doing a lot to protect from heatstroke. There are clothes people do wear to protect themselves from the heat, but those tend to be more stigmatized in Western culture so I don't think Katy Perry would wear them. And nowadays the majority of people just wear Western clothing anyway.
Bloom's headgear is at least in the realm of a real thing someone might wear, but it's not really practical in this context. If he were a farmer or a day laborer, it would help keep the sweat out of his eyes, and he could unwrap it and drape it over his head to protect himself from the sun. But as it is now, in the present context, it is basically functioning as a decorative item. It's maybe a little bit like someone wearing a bowler hat for their trip to London, or maybe a bonnet when they go to Williamsburg or DC. Distinctly costume-y.
I'm not really sure if that makes it "bad" to wear or whatever. But it's certainly the sort of thing only relatively wealthy tourists from the West or China would buy and wear around. I don't think it's wrong to say that it's mostly white people who would be seen in Cairo or Giza wearing these.
Yes I too hate it when people act “awfully white” in photos. Very problematic!
WTF is “awfuly white”… Jesus Christ lol
Joke is father dauther incest
Nice, you give full explanation and the tl;dr. I like it.
You’re all absolutely overthinking it. They’re just saying it’s a funny picture to pick for this article, they should have just picked a normal picture of the couple but instead they used a goofy one. That’s all
Aren’t they committing cultural appropriation here, or is that not a thing anymore?
There's no joke to explain.
I think they just find it funny that they used a picture of them in turbans
This one you either get or you don't no point explaining
that’s quite literally the entire point of this sub what
I understand, but my point still stands. Its like that "dog walks into a bar" joke from Sumer; you either have the cultural context and get it or dont and won't, it cant be explained
well no, because you can explain cultural context. you’re acting as if it’s impossible to understand. maybe it won’t be as funny, but people will get it
It's not a joke, there's no punchline to get. Everybody talking about incest is weird and way overthinking it. Someone just said "what a strange photo choice" in AAVE, that's all.
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