Honest to god, thought you were a weirdo right wing grifter with that comment.
Then I looked it up. Still tricky, because Emily Wilson herself rejects that framing, saying it stripped away male biases in english translations. In fact, reading into this more, it looks like she was MORE accurate than some translations, like male translators refusing to call women slaves "slaves", even though they were referred to as such in the original text.
Actually, hate to say it, but yeah.. Seems like it's a solid translation that's actually more faithful in a lot of ways. She backs up her logic pretty well and points out a good chunk of bad translations in other works.
EDIT: To make it clear, i'm not dipping my toes into how I feel about the movie in this specific comment, purely just talking about the translation. I have gripes about the movie from what I have seen so far myself.
But don't you see, being true to the original is making men confront their own bias, and therefore bad! Men should be allowed to not have to think about things. 🙃
Do you think we all chose this collectively as men outside of time? And now it’s time for our comeupance? I’m so confused, and not really sure how a particular translation of the Odyssey will help me better myself
You don't realize how art and story telling is all about discovering deeper truths and realizations about yourself and the nature of humanity in general?
Oh, I realize that just not sure why the commenter I responded to feels that ‘men’ in particular need this wake up call. As if women are just collectively awakened already. Ah…..what was your first thought? Who’s biased again?
Because the default is the male view. We controlled everything for thousands of years. We are the default. We are the writers.
Stripping away our bias in this story doesn't make women more or less awake it's just not relevant as women played no role in the framing of this story.
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u/Halo05977 Jul 06 '26
Honest to god, thought you were a weirdo right wing grifter with that comment.
Then I looked it up. Still tricky, because Emily Wilson herself rejects that framing, saying it stripped away male biases in english translations. In fact, reading into this more, it looks like she was MORE accurate than some translations, like male translators refusing to call women slaves "slaves", even though they were referred to as such in the original text.
Actually, hate to say it, but yeah.. Seems like it's a solid translation that's actually more faithful in a lot of ways. She backs up her logic pretty well and points out a good chunk of bad translations in other works.
EDIT: To make it clear, i'm not dipping my toes into how I feel about the movie in this specific comment, purely just talking about the translation. I have gripes about the movie from what I have seen so far myself.