@AdmiralHip I want to know who did Roman pr for their rep as a nation of gender equality.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
@civilwarbore there was this fuckin essay on how persephone was some bastion of feminism in Ancient Greece. And I was like...no.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore with that being said, I gotta say I find it interesting that HADES, the dark god of the underworld, has violated...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore ...less people than Zeus. And Persephone's story involves being kidnapped but no seduction or impregnantion against her will.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore but it's still a story of a woman being forced away from her home and family.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@civilwarbore although somehow I think that she was already queen of the underworld and the Greeks needed a reason for her being there.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@AdmiralHip Yes! The attempts to explain earlier myth!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @NeolithicSheep
@civilwarbore and so they thought of the worst thing. she just HAD to have been abducted. No way her and Hades fell in love normally. NOPE.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AdmiralHip
@AdmiralHip and here she is basically a pawn w no agency, being played between her mother & husband, who have shared custody.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @NeolithicSheep
@civilwarbore oh and it was Zeus who gave him permission to kidnap her in the first place. And then when the world turned dead...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@civilwarbore ...Zeus was like, WELL I guess you gotta GIVE HER BACK. But she ate those pomegranate seeds and was screwed.
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