And we've been invested in that idea for a VERY long time. We are INVESTED in the idea that these heroes never looked at women as anything but objects, never saw value in them as people beyond the child they might provide.
Why that's the thing we need to expunge from the record, above all, by pushing to make sure those relationships are more "realistically" portrayed primarily as violence and assault, in our so modern and enlightened age. I think we all know why as a society we focus on a mythic hero falling in love as the bigger problem, though. Perhaps even more so than by allowing people inside problematic power dynamics to fall in love (as attested inside the myths themselves.)
To suggest that everyone in the past was driven by a bloodthirsty desire for fame and glory at any cost is a profound disservice to history and our ancestors. But if they keep leaving out the part where PEOPLE REALLY DID NOT WANT TO BE THERE, half of it, and all the nuance, is lost. Dozens, maybe hundreds of people have retold this story.
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