Odyssey: A Daily Odyssey through Homer’s The Odyssey

I enjoyed the approach to the poem but was entirely put off of it when Landon went off on Telemachus for telling his mother to attend to housewifely duties. Evidently Landon thought these duties were beneath “men’s work” of the time (or these times), so he took great offense on her behalf and said he could hardly read the passage. There is nothing more insulting to women than elevating “men’s work” and diminishing traditional women’s work. My grandmother took great pride in her work as a seamstress and my mother in her work as nurturer, including cooking and cleaning. I know hotel maids who take enormous pride in their work. But self-styled feminists have, ironically bought into the patriarchy so thoroughly that they define all that is masculine as good, valuable, and impressive and “women’s work” like domestic labor and child nurturing as having no value. They couldn’t be more misogynistic and further from elevating women if they tried, but somehow they think they are defending women. Don’t get me wrong, plenty of women also would react the way Landon did, but they too have been brainwashed by “the patriarchy,” yet believe themselves to be grand feminists. Talk about losing the plot.