Tumblr-feminist retellings of Medusa's story try to make her transformation into some sort of blessing by Athena when it would be much more poignant to analyze how women in power will discard and punish lower class women hurt by the patriarchy to protect their sense of propriety
@AlenSeress to me it’s kinda sad bcos it’s like the person experiencing the horror isn’t particularly scared but more alienated?? like to me the ‘othering’ is less scary but more of a yearning to be normal/like others