Athena blessed her with the ability to protect herself and men beheaded her for it.
That’s actually a really intetesting intpretation of it I hadn’t thought of. Most people seem to think Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon as punishment for defiling her temple, but thinking that she did so to protect her from being abused again is interesting and I like it!
Athena’s hands were tied. Yes, she was a powerful Goddess, but she was very much a woman in a “boys club”, and the true offending party (don’t think for a moment that Athena blamed Medusa for being raped in the temple, Athena knows better) held all the cards. There was nothing that Athena could do to punish the true criminal, and she was expected to punish Medusa by everyone else. What’s a Goddess to do when she cannot punish those who need to be punished and is expected to punish not only the truly innocent party, but her most beloved follower? Use that incredible brain power she had to protect Medusa at all costs, and of course the men would see it as punishment, to be have her beauty stripped from her and sent to live in the shadows. Medusa should have been KILLED for supposedly defiling the temple, whether she truly did or not, but she was given the gift of life, and the ability to protect herself and her daughters (who she bore thanks to Poseidon). This is why Medusa’s image was used to signify woman’s shelters and safe houses.
Medusa means “guardian; protectress”, and she was.
need this trend of white girls going from looking like jennifer aniston to looking like zoe kravitz to die right now
y’all are going to JAIL PERIODDDTTTTTT
this is…. horrendous
Or we could just -not- hate on women who are proud and happy with how they look/portray themselves? Let’s focus on women loving women.
Prime example of why mainstream feminism is trash. They support “women” but somehow that excludes black women. I mean honestly, as a “feminist” you should see why this is wrong but instead lol you decide to say “let’s focus on loving women” I mean that’s cool and all but let’s also look at how BLACK women get slandered on the daily and for a white woman to literally attempt to hijack our culture and get praised for it is wrong. But ya know, love women.. long as they’re white right?? Cause ya know from what I’m grasping you’re kinda like fuck black women.
What the fuck is going on
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All of these women are white and their pretty much taking obvious black features and.heavily darkening.their skin. Its fucking blackface
Have an early happy New Year Greetings from us! It’s always so pleasing seeing these spider-folks freefalling everytime, it just feels so liberating! And also adding this sweet sweeet Post Malone, Swae Lee ’s Sunflower to our animation :’)
Let’s be real. If little girls’ knees, shoulders, and clavicles are a problem for male teachers, you don’t have a dress code issue. You have a pedophile issue.
