Hello, this is Let's Talk About Myths Baby, and I am live here with some bonus content.

Because well, Medusa.

The further I got into this podcast, and it's been three years now, but the further I got

into it and into the mythology itself, the more fascinated I became with Medusa.

I always was, to an extent, but the thing that's really been eye-opening for me over the

past year or so is the reception to Medusa on the internet.

It's unlike any other character from Greek mythology and centers deeply around really

toxic masculinity and fragility when it comes to, primarily, cisgendered men on the internet.

It's dark as hell.

So the episode you're about to listen to is a conversation, a very fun conversation that's

not at all dark, that I had with Ann Wynne Kaya Hayward, a woman who I become friends with

through Twitter, stemming from, you guessed it, men and their comments about Medusa on Twitter.

Ann Wynne is a bit of an expert on Medusa.

She was doing her PhD on the woman and has written a really lovely novella all about her

and sort of a more sympathetic take on her that I would highly recommend and you can find

a link to it in the episode description today.

She and I had this conversation a while ago now, a couple of months, it got delayed because

I was waiting on this source book which thank the gods, has so many more sources on Medusa

than I've ever been able to find before, but since we have this conversation, a few things

have changed.

One, I had to cut out references to a former male ally, that's in quotations, because just

days after she and I discussed Medusa and how this man on Twitter who we both knew fairly

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