08.31.07
Norse Myths and Classical Myths: Thirty-Eighth Post (Pandora)
The Pandora myth was told pretty well, but I never liked that myth. I just hate what it says about women. Women were created as a spiteful gift, meant to punish men. Pandora is allowed no thoughts or feelings of her own at all, even her curiosity is predetermined and imposed on her. She is certainly not “all-endowed” in any meaningful way for her. And then, of course, it is woman’s fault everything bad in the world exists. Never is it blamed on the vindictive gods who set up the situation, knowing full well what would happen.
I have similar objections to the Garden of Eden story.