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Originally Posted by Queen Boo
I know right?
Only reason people from my generation even know who Kevin Sorbo is is because we had to sit through Hercules as we waited for Xena to come on.
Lucy Lawless has proven herself to be a vastly superior human being as well, not that being a better person than Sorbo is a high bar to clear but seriously look up her activism work she's pretty badass.
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Sadly every time I think of Sorbo I think of Andromeda. Oh, and sorbet.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I mean I still loved Hercules but watching some dude stand there and punch things was still less cool than the ultimate boob ninja.
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And then there was Iolos. Ugh. Shiver.
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Originally Posted by Queen Boo
Xena is an icon for pretty much every trans lesbian who grew up in the 90s, for obvious reasons.
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Xena and Gabrielle for the win!
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Originally Posted by jadis
Ahh I see: I meant “essentialist” as a property of discourse, as opposed to “historicist”. A discourse that's by definition ahistorical and deals in essences and reifications as opposed to a discourse that in some sense refers to or allows for historical contingency and specificity. I was not implying WG was guilty of stereotyping the Jews somehow or that the US race discourse tends towards that. That, indeed, would’ve been very strange and anti-historicist.
Another way of saying it is that it's a metahistorical or metadiscursive comment, not one against racial stereotyping.
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Can you please explain the bolded word? None of my dictionaries have it.