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.
can i jsut say… isnt it insane that polar bears go underground like imagine just walking along with a shovel and u start digging a hole and a bear is in there
THEYRE JUST? THERE…. IN THE SNOW
I know it‘s supposed to be scary that there is apex predators just potentially sleeping under the surface of the snow like some kind of greek mythology monster but it just makes me laugh bc them living in holes just means polar bears just have little houses and look out of their little windows like:
I am 100% in favour of this and any bill that will make it harder/impossible for their to be any chance of this Fanta Coloured Abomination of ever getting re-elected
On this day, 28 March 1977, over 1,300 overwhelmingly black sanitation workers in Atlanta walked off the job for a 50 cent an hour pay increase. The city’s first black mayor, who had come to power on the back of the civil rights and black power movements and to whom the workers looked for support, sacked them all, with the support of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Sr. It was an early lesson that having representatives of colour doesn’t necessarily benefit working class people of colour. This is an account of the struggle: https://ift.tt/2iY9CZq
Pictured: Modibo Kadalie, one of the strikers more recently https://ift.tt/2WynApp
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk… It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter.” – Albert Camus, Notebooks
