Board Thread:Percy Jackson & the Olympians/@comment-31481772-20170602080801/@comment-24749544-20170625062029

23Christopher wrote: The Hunters are disturbingly sexist, we can all agree. Their bias towards men, however, is, at the least, understandable. Its no surprise the senior Hunters turned out the way they did, be it by their own individual grievances with men or Artemis' rambling on about the "vile, disgusting pigs". A majority of the male Olympians along with the other gods Artemis knew were no "paragons of virtue" - Poseidon and Zeus raped their sister Demeter, (talk about awkward family reunions), Hades kidnapped Persephone, Zeus swallowed Metis whole in order to avoid being usurped due to a prophecy. Life in the city-states of Ancient Hellas wasn't much better; women were not allowed to own or inherit property, could not participate in government affairs like voting, the sort, young girls were often married off to whichever suitor offered the largest dowry for their hand in marriage. (I have no idea were I was going with this; I'm tired.)

Anyway, my point is, are the Hunters sexist to the point of irritance and annoyance? Yes. Are they sexist to the point that they'd leave a young man to die? No. (They're not man-killers like the Amazons; Herodotos described them as such).

Considering they joke about Artemis turning men into jackalopes in the book they may as well be killers. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't survive the week being turning into one, let alone live a long life.