#we don't need a westerner with 10 mins of Google researchto come and save us

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"feminist" greek myth retellings love to talk about how the "poets," by which i assume we are meant to understand ancient male storytellers (who are positioned as the only perspective in ancient stories), always get things wrong and never talk about women. this troubles me because (1) they did. (2) they did, and those stories and their complexity are often overlooked. (3) merely sneering at certain depictions of mythological and ancient women or pointing out that men should not be the sole storytellers of women's experiences does not mean that you are writing about women's experiences, doing a good job, or even saying something interesting or useful. which is a shame, because there is certainly more to say, if one could get past one's feeling of inherent superiority toward old stories and the things they might be saying.