Week 7 Post 2

     

    Hypermnestra is a woman born into a family of 50 girls. Her father orders each girl to wed at the age of 15, then coerces his daughter to kill her husband. The daughters are forced to marry their 50 cousins against their will, then murder them against their will. Hypermnestra marries one of her cousins, then when her father orders her to kill him, she refuses. She chooses not to because she knows it is morally wrong. But then her husband acts out of rage since his brothers have all been murdered and in turn murders all of her sisters. 

    This story teaches the 'lesson' that women need to let men make decisions for them. Hypermnestra's father makes every decision for her sisters, and the one time she disobeys him, she is punished for it. This story also teaches the idea that women destroy families. The decisions they make escalate everything so disproportionately to push a mysogynistic agenda.