A review by patedm
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
These 10 women are the original girlbosses and you can’t convince me otherwise!!
I found myself constantly saying, “I support women's rights, but more importantly I support women's wrongs” throughout reading this, and I just don’t think there’s any better words that those to describe this reading process for me. Yes, some of the things these women did were bad (but also a lot of them didn’t even do anything bad!), but so were the things the men were doing!! And instead of villainizing the men of these myths, we make the women out to be the villains bc of, yep you guess it, deeply rooted misogyny!
At the end of the day though, I’m a Greek mythology girly and I am a defender of women, so this was obviously going to be a slay for me.
I found myself constantly saying, “I support women's rights, but more importantly I support women's wrongs” throughout reading this, and I just don’t think there’s any better words that those to describe this reading process for me. Yes, some of the things these women did were bad (but also a lot of them didn’t even do anything bad!), but so were the things the men were doing!! And instead of villainizing the men of these myths, we make the women out to be the villains bc of, yep you guess it, deeply rooted misogyny!
At the end of the day though, I’m a Greek mythology girly and I am a defender of women, so this was obviously going to be a slay for me.