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Bunny Themelis Magooby’s Comedian of the Year Competition 2016

Telling it like it is! (at Ottobar)

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Medusa by *MattRhodes

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I dig this for a couple of reasons.

First, it’s got great style.

Perhaps more interestingly though, is that it’s a very different tone as far as the direction of aggression. Most people know the Clash of the Titans version where she’s on the hunt for him once he shows up. But let’s face it, Medusa really gets the shaft from destiny overall. She starts out as a priestess in a temple who gets raped by Poseidon and gets cursed for it as if it was all her fault. The result is that she’s basically doomed to live without human contact for eternity. Then she’s hunted down specifically for her head by a demigod whose got all sorts of great toys and backing to get the job done and depicted as some sort of horrible monster for defending her turf from folks out to kill her.

There are some really interesting theories about regarding just what the whole ‘gorgon’ thing was really about from a historical perspective. It’s really quite a tragic tale about the rise of patriarchy and the purge of goddess-centric worshipers. There are also parallels to the Apollo versus Typhon story which is part of the same era. Harsh.

See, even the demystified stories from ancient times are fascinating!

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Reblogging for commentary.

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I wish there were more nuanced portrayals of Medusa than as just a scary, snake lady.

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Not to mention all this shit went down while she was pregnant with twins, the Pegasus and the giant Chrysaor, as a result from the rape. Perseus would mount Pegasus, and use him and Medusa’s head to kill a sea monster, thus winning him a wife, Andromeda. Medusa was cursed by the very goddess she served, Athena, who also gave Perseus the mirrored shield he used to slay her. Raped, betrayed by her god, hunted down like a beast in her own home while she was pregnant, her own children stolen from her and used to glorify and aide her killers and betrayers. And she’s supposed to be the monster?

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That’s how Greek men saw the myth. Greek women viewed it as Athena protecting Medusa by giving her the power to make any man who looked at her completely harmless. Her head was used as a symbol to mark women’s shelters in ancient Greece.

Friendly reminder to remember that women have their own vivid lives and cultures and that the stories which are preserved today come through a heavy filter of gender, race, and class biases.

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The above

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All of the commentary is glorious, particularly the nuance added by the inclusion is the women’s perspective on the myth.

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That completely changed my perspective of this myth, thank you so much.

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Yo, Hellenic buddies, I’ve never actually gotten confirmation on this. Is all this stuff true?

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Where did this admittedly compelling theory come from? I mean, it’s total BS, but I’d love to see some cites, or that there was any evidence of “women’s shelters” being something that existed in the ancient world. Doesn’t really grock. Sorry. First, the Medusa-as-raped-priestess story was an invention of Ovid who was alive in Rome, not Greece. The ancient Greeks would not have been familiar with Ovid’s version at all. They would have been familiar with Hesiod’s telling, where Medusa is not a priestess and she and Poseidon have consensual relations in a meadow of flowers.

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Bahaha!!!

a friend of mine who is greek starting bringing his nongreek girlfriend around the church he grew up in. She’d volunteer at the festivals (2 years in a row) and leading up to their engagement they began attending church at minimum twice a month.

and guess what happened when my friend asked his priest to convert his enthusiastic fiance?

The priest said no. He said they weren’t involved enough, and when they countered that they had been coming to church etc papa said that he had “eyes” everywhere and it wasn’t enough, and then pretty much indicated it wasnt gonna happen

Can you believe this shit?

There needs to be a yelp for Greek Orthodox Churches in America

(Also, the quality of Anastasi services can vary wildly, right? Should be reviews)

#greeks