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.
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So the feds caught that guy who was mailing nail bombs to Democrats. To nobody’s surprise, dude is an old white MAGA chud. Who woulda thought.
Our prediction is that, pretty soon, outlets like InfoWars and other right-populist media are gonna “”“uncover”“” some “”“proof”“” that this guy is some kinda secret liberal somehow, and Trump et al will start toasting marshmallows over that smoldering Reichstag
Here’s your boy’s panel van. These aren’t collages of individual stickers, they’re custom-printed vinyl sheets. I *think* he *might* be, uh, emotionally invested.
Local news channels here in Jacksonville have been covering this on Facebook. All the Trumpflakes all over our fair state are calling it fake. It’s fun to read. Their biggest claim is that it’s obviously fake because the stickers are too fresh.
Even better, in its coverage Fox news is censoring the stickers
“The stickers are too new for this to be real.” Dude’s only been politically relevant for two years. Do you think Trumpsters are time travelers or something?
Ben Shapiro is trying to do damage control in a typical fashion of these fucks:
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And I was put in the seat instantly, of course. I said, “your honor, I can’t be a juror on a two week trial, I have opera rehearsal.” And she said, “opera huh, well, sing something for us.”
And I did. In a federal court of law, in front of the judge, 75 jurors, the lawyers and the fucking DEFENDANT, I sang o mio babbino caro.
YO I DIDNT EMBARRASS MYSELF IN FEDERAL COURT SO YALL CAN DOUBT ME.
I know a lot of opera singers, and singing a full-on aria in a court room with only a hint of provocation is EXACTLY what they would do.
I know a lot of judges, and demanding an impromptu opera solo on a whim is also something they would do.
(And also one of the main reasons you can be excused from jury duty is economic hardship–basically, it would cause you unreasonable financial damage. If you’re a professional singer, a two week gap in your rehearsal schedule could do that for sure.)
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