#i think we have enough tales of woman being misstreated in the greek mythos to retell

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I think even if people are using Ovid's version of the myth of Medusa it would be a more interesting take that Perseus has no idea.

That besides cursing her the gods also lied about what she was. That everyone in Greece thinks she was born a monster and so when a hero, a kid really, goes to kill a monster to protect his mother (and to find glory, because he was raised like every hero to believe it matters) he doesn't see a victim. Athena told him the monster might lie. And why would the wisest of gods, the first powerfull person that genuinally just wanted to help him, the patron of heros, lie?

Medusa is killed by an oblivious reckless kind hearted teen that just wanted to protect his own mother and kingdom. Her tragedy is to die as a monster by the hands of a kid that in a different life could even have looked up to her. Her blessing is that her final act is to kill an abuser.