epicene-street-light:

ok but can you imagine a worse, more terrifying fate than medusa’s one? just imagine. first of all you’re raped in your goddess’ temple. which, apart from the obvious trauma, means you can’t keep doing what you devoted your entire life to. your goddess gifts you with the ability to turn those you look at into stone and your hair into snakes so that you can defend yourself and be a threat rather than a victim to men. and then?????? a fucking MAN decides hes gonna hunt you down and slaughter you for…. sport like just because he can?????? and not only does he kill you but he keeps your head as a weapon???????? effectively using you and your body for his own purpose exactly like your rapist??????????????? like??? and this man is considered a hero while you’ll be remembered as a monstruous, dangerous entity???????????????????? medusa deserved better smh

i want to emphasize the fact that i just checked ovid’s metamorphoses again and every occurrence of medusa’s name is, in fact, said by perseus or used to characterize him. its not enough to have her raped and slaughtered; we also need to remove her completely from history, to the point she’s not even given her own story. we only learn about her story via perseus who explains in a single sentence where his weapon comes from, emphasizing the “danger” that she was & how clever he was – without mentioning why he went to murder her in the first place. after that, there are about 12 or 15 occurrences of her name – each time referring to her head used as a weapon by perseus, i.e as a lifeless object strapped from her humanity and personal identity, a part of her body used by a man for his personal desire, i.e exactly the same depersonalization process that lead to her being raped.

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