There's a new movie of 'The Odyssey' coming out

that's upset a bunch of people in various ways.  One of them is the lady chosen to play Helen of Troy, who said Homer 'didn't have much to say about women'.  In the story of a warrior traveling back home from Troy who wound up using ten years to do it.  Well, a guy has a response:

OK. So Helen’s beauty sparks a war. Athena is a strategic goddess guiding Odysseus. Penelope embodies clever loyalty. Circe turns men into pigs, which frankly is still the most realistic female character arc in literature. Calypso traps the hero on an island for seven years. Cassandra can literally see the future but nobody listens, making her the first woman in recorded history to experience a meeting. The Sirens weaponize music. Nausicaa saves Odysseus when he washes up naked and useless. Andromache gives one of the most devastating anti-war speeches in the Iliad. Hecuba is basically the emotional wreckage of empire in human form. Aphrodite starts half the problems in Western civilization by being hot and petty. Hera is running divine opposition research. Thetis gets Zeus involved because Achilles is having a workplace dispute. But apart from Helen, Athena, Penelope, Circe, Calypso, Cassandra, the Sirens, Nausicaa, Andromache, Hecuba, Aphrodite, Hera, and Thetis... WHAT HAS HOMER EVER DONE TO GIVE FEMALE CHARACTERS ATTENTION?

Polymarket

@Polymarket

Jul 6

JUST IN: Lupita Nyong’o, who stars as "Helen of Troy" in the upcoming Odyssey film, criticizes Homer for not giving female characters enough attention.

I'd say she's never read any of it.