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mouseratz · 2 years

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Gotham s1e1

-pickpocket teen Selina isn't the worst honestly. it's kind of hilarious that she witnessed the death of the Wayne's though

-the guy who plays Gordon is so ugly

-the pills guy. well it's so bad it's funny they did not even try they were like uhm. what kinds of criminals are there I guess addicts I guess

-its kind of sweet to add in that Gordon comforted a kid Bruce, that's how the whole friendship for them starts or whatever. It's very cheesy but it's not the worst

-did the other cop just pull out a bottle of miralax at the diner

-LACKADAISICAL? why does he talk like this I'm crying

-a montage?????

-ohhhh I see. I see. Edward is autistic like so much. I knew it but damn we just start like that huh

-GIRLBOSS ALERT . ohhhh nobody told me about her . Heart eyes for fish

-oswald is so wet cardboard box all alone he is the size of one molecule he can't ask for anyone to correct his order at a restaurant

-ewwww normal ass straight people

-who tf is Mario pepper

-IVY PEPPER??? lmfaoooo what is that name

-WHY DOES HE TALK LIKE THAT....his stupid little glasses. he's such a bad liar

-selina looks like a divergent character I'm so sorry

-are Barbara and Montoya exes?

-love that child ivy looks like she keeps dead spiders in a jar because that's exactly the kind of person she is

- Harvey, you're a cop. You're not losing your job for shooting a suspect. Now, Jim might, for trying to actually solve this.

- fish Mooney I love you oh my god the red color scheme.......

- oh nooo foot fetish content. Okay.

-this is so good so good perfect drama here though.

-the cops are getting tortured by a resident evil villain

-oh man. the pier scene. so fun

-at least Bruce Wayne is autistic

-HE KILLED A BITCH FOR A SANDWICH. GAGEHWJAJAHAA

#mouse watches gotham

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fandomsandfeminism · 2 years

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So, lately I've been finding myself feeling... annoyed with very modern reimaginings of Greek myths being presented as like the "secretly TRUE versions of the myths before they were warped by the patriarchy."

Like, I don't really have an issue with #GirlBoss Persephone retellings (even if I find them a bit tired because they so often have to rely on villifying Demeter to do so.) But to act like that very modern interpretation of the character and story has any basis in the classical sources is just untrue, and it is frustrating because it refuses to engage with the difficult or uncomfortable aspects of stories that are 3000 years old. It refuses to engage with the cultural differences and history of these stories that still find ways to speak to us today. Instead it just seeks to sanitize and erase the bits that don't fit into our modern sensibilities.

But the one that *really* gets me is Medusa. Because as modern audiences, the idea that Medusa being turned into a monster was *punishment* by Athena for being *raped* by Poseidon is really upsetting. And I've seen people legitimately try to say that *actually* Athena would never do that. Athena was actually *protecting* Medusa by making her a monster so that she wouldn't be assaulted again. #feminism

But HERES THE THING- the entire idea that Medusa was transformed by Athena after being raped? COMES FROM FUCKING OVID.

(Ovid is a Roman writer who HEAVILY REIMAGINED the Greek myths in Metamorphoses because he was working with a Roman world view and political agenda.)

All EARLIER classical (and actually Greek) sources have Medusa being *born a Gorgon.* (whether the Gordons as a rule are beautiful or monsterous varies, and Hesoid does mention in the Theogny that Poseidon and Medusa had a thing, but he doesn't describe it as rape. But that they "lay in a meadow of soft flowers", and theres no description of her being transformed because of this.)

So like.

No.

no.

Obviously, the idea that there is some "true" Canon Orthodox version of these myths just...isn't true. That's just not how that worked.

But no. There is no classical support for any of that.

Thanks.

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