A fetish for oppression and the trap of consolating its audience– modern retellings of Greco-Roman myths make mythology feel safe

I am about to revive a pretty old literary and political discourse. It might sound like a screed against wokeism but it's not. I suspect that I am far more progressive than a lot of the women reading and writing such books. I am currently reading Ovid's Metamorphoses and therefore went on a Greek mythology [...]