#Osid didn’t understand that feminism isn’t about degrading other women to make your girl better in comparison and retellers don’t either | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

robotsdeservebetter · 22 days ago

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All the Rape of Persephone retellings that turn the mother, who defies the patriarchal system to save her daughter, into an abusive monster just to make the rapist into a compelling love interest 👹 Feminist retelling, my ass

"Nobody gave a voice to these Greek Mythology female characters."

Euripides after writing Andromache, Andromeda, Antigone, Danaë, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, Merope, Wise Melanippe, Captive Melanippe, Peliades, The Phoenician Women, The Trojan Women etc.

#classical mythology #mythology #>that really old fanfiction of Medusa’s story sits wrong with me also #because I have a feeling this version only became popular because Medusa is a famous mythological figure #Persephone’s story is so much more brutal and they turned it into a romcom Medusa is THE Female Villain and they turn her into a sob story #literally what is wrong with you #Medusa is like Malificent: she doesn’t need a backstory about how a dude wronged her to be one of the most feared villains #generally where’s the obsession with Medusa coming from?#why are so many people trying to prove she’s actually a babygirl?#also love how that fanfiction turns Athena (yet another significant powerful positive female character) into a bitch #Osid didn’t understand that feminism isn’t about degrading other women to make your girl better in comparison and retellers don’t either #at least Osid lived long ago and didn’t make such claims #Athena is a goddess of wisdom and a woman? and you eat up a story that ‘proves’ her incompetence so gladly?#a fictional woman for once was allowed to be recognised for her brains through actions and a man decided to twist her into a dumbass #AND misogynist #like don’t you feel it’s a but suspicious? especially considering Athena was violated too? and forced to raise the child?#and is a virgin goddess?#Medusa and Athena are just Not the characters to represent this particular topic in those roles #at least because it was written by a man #men can be victims too #but this one has too many evidence pointing at his dislike of women #misogynist have this weird tendency of applauding objectively evil women and simultaneously beating down women who just. exit. and #especially women who do rights and uplift other women #funny pattern innit?

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