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Anonymous07/28/26, 19:02No.25429673
What do you make of the trend of retelling Greek myths through feminine perspectives? Why are women so obsessed with this stuff lately? It feels like Greek mythology is primarily a female pursuit these days.
Do you think women are also reading the original myths? Is this trend skewing their knowledge of what these myths actually were?
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Anon07/28/26, 19:03No.25429680
>lately
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Anon07/28/26, 19:18No.25429741
All story belongs to everyone. If you come up with a superior version from the original, it should supplant it.
>Why do women like literature
It's so sad to see moids piss their pants to know that so many women like their hobby. Stop whining.
I like Le Guin's Lavinia. For anyone who finished the Aeneid and wondered at that abrupt ending.
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Anon07/28/26, 19:52No.25429819
My take is percy jackson series was really popular with girls and specifically popular with girls who continued reading and writing past college/uni. Its also the most famous "mythology" and the most feminine. Roman is just a more masculine version of greek, norse has kinda been socially ruined by the insane (varg) and by moid larpers, and Egyptian has less famous stories and less stories overall. I have no actual data behind this im only going off vibes
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Anon07/28/26, 19:54No.25429824
there is a yt video that came up on my feed that talked about this, thought it was a recent video
it was a 2 year old video, and largely critical of these modern works
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Anon07/28/26, 20:19No.25429903
Feminists hate Greek lit.
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Anon07/28/26, 20:23No.25429919
They're degenerate coomers
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Anon07/28/26, 20:40No.25429949
CHUD outrage bait thread #388338
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Anon07/28/26, 21:09No.25430027
In 2016 Donna Zuckerberg (sister of Mark) was whining about white men reading the classics. She demanded that they be reinterpreted and have "context" added to them to dilute their appeal to normal young men [alt-right bigoted misogynist fascists]>She has also written for mainstream publications about the use of the classics by the alt-right movement>they really see their misogyny and racism as a form of enlightenment. They are able to see the world more clearly than the rest of us… and what they see is that white, heterosexual men are discriminated against in our society.">she argued that the sexism and racism found in classic texts should be studied and discussed rather than ignored or, as right-wing ideologues were doing, celebrated>She is author of the book Not All Dead White Men (2018), about the appropriation of classics by misogynist groups on the internet>Zuckerberg's book also explores the popularity of stoicism within the manosphere. The book describes how Red Pill men use stoicism to support their belief in a dichotomy between the rational nature of males and the emotional nature of women. Zuckerberg argues that the point of the Red Pill discourse "is not for everything to hang together logically and to be totally immune to criticism. The point is to make people feel something—to make their audience feel validated and justified and scared and angry—and [get] any reaction [out of] them">Zuckerberg takes a feminist approach to classical antiquity, arguing that the ancient world was deeply misogynistic: "it was a time when there was no word for rape, feminism did not exist and women's actions were determined by male relatives".[3] Alt-right groups are using classical texts, distorted and stripped of context, to add weight and authority to campaigns of misogyny and white supremacy>In particular, Sarah Bond locates Zuckerberg within "a new generation of classicists, archaeologists, and premodern historians [who] have begun to realize that an insulated approach to scholarship is itself a form of privileged monasticism that we can no longer retreat to".That seemed to be the starting point for all this.
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Anon07/28/26, 21:26No.25430068
>lately
There is a Robert Graves shaped elephant in this thread. He literally wrote a book about how a woman wrote the Odyssey.
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Anon07/28/26, 22:14No.25430201
Have you heard of a book called Heroides by a certain guy called Ovidius?
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Anon07/28/26, 22:46No.25430266
Don't have a problem with the concept. Highly sceptical of the quality of them.
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Anon07/28/26, 23:00No.25430299
I don’t care about them at all and don’t interact with them. The originals will always be more relevant and more popular anyways.
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Anon07/29/26, 05:45No.25431193
It would be fine, if not for the retardation of the hoi polloi who read them and take it fully as a completely accurate portrayal of the myth and then melt down at other retellings which do not match.
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Anon07/29/26, 05:48No.25431195
I think it's a sort of rape of culture by women, both in the original sense that it's theft, and also the modern sense that it's a sexual violation. Women are incapable of understanding arete, so everything they touch turns is immediately diminished.
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Anon07/29/26, 08:25No.25431353
>Why are women so obsessed with this stuff lately?
Many women have been told that the traditional myths are unkind to the women in them, and so when they see these new "feminist" retellings that make them "stronger" it suits what they think they want.Often though, these stories reduce the women characters further, turn the non-protag women characters into anti-women/feminist/bigoted (Thetis) for no reason, and often resort to adding rape where it never happened in order to up the stakes and make the protag woman's actions more understandable.I can't tell you how many times I've chatted with women about the Odyssey, and they expect the story to be really shit to the women involved. But then I'll describe how wonderful and great a character Penelope is and they all change their minds and begin reading the original.
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Anon07/29/26, 08:51No.25431377
erm... based
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Anon07/30/26, 00:40No.25432889
>still here