Gender Swapped Greek Myths

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Jake Alexander(Two Hoots)When Rosa finds herself bored during the holidays, her dad suggests going to the library to borrow some books. And does this book include the story of a male god turning a huntress into a stag to be torn apart by her own hounds for accidentally seeing him bathing nude? I loved the idea of gender-swapping Greek myths and having the males turned into females really changed the story quite a lot.

I particularly like that Cyclopsess – a hairy-legged giant with a monobrow over the wound where her one eye used to be, hurling rocks and abuse at Odyssea’s departing galley. Following the incredible success of Gender Swapped Fairy Tales they have taken that same simple step. Imagine a world where you hurry along the street, past wolf-whistling workwomen, pausing at the traffic light for the red woman to turn green before rushing to make your ‘Father and Baby’ class where you’ll join the men (and perhaps one or two token women) in sitting on the floor listening to the story of Sleeping Handsome being kissed without consent by a brave Princess to all the tiny, wide-eyed girls and boys on the floor.

Back to 2017 when a man named Jonathan Plackett noticed something odd while looking at a newspaper stand. But they are also from a patriarchal culture with toxic heroes and maidens carried off against their will. Hatshepsut seems to have experimented with gender to find a form that was both tolerable to the Egyptian people and elites, as well as best represented her personal image of herself. It’s more important for us to make people think about the current world and how it could be different,” says Plackett.

Faced with this injustice, Rosa, with the help of her sister Maria, decides that she can’t stay silent. The seven bachelors shrieked, but tried to stand up bravely and face their fate; and the six young women stood together with firm-set teeth and clenched fists, ready to fight to the last.The purpose of this book is to help us see our own world and all its inequalities in a clearer light and hopefully to help us all empathise with ‘the other side’.

I listened to these gender-swapped Greek myths after relearning all about the Greek gods and their history with my kiddo. You Can’t Take an Elephant on Holiday (Bloombury Children’s Books) is the latest instalment of Patricia Cleveland-Peck’s and David Tazzyman’s “You Can’t Take an Elephant …” series, which has sold over 200,000 copies! Whether you identify as nonbinary or are someone who has never thought much about your gender, we want to get everyone thinking about how gender defines us all. Teresias was asked what sex was like for the different sexes and replied something like 'if the pleasure of sex can be counted as 10, 9 go to women, but 1 goes to men'. We get used to seeing female characters moving in this hypersexualised "feminine" way that isn't much like how any human being actually moves, but seeing Batman do it jolts you into noticing how daft it is.Couple of stars for the interesting illustrations though there definitely could’ve been more of them. One of our favourite discoveries was the myth of Atalantus (originally Atalanta), which begins with the birth of a baby boy, which so distresses the parents that they attempt infanticide. In my opinion, this is a very interesting and very unusual concept, which is really intriguing and fresh.