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Op, you have no idea what you've done to me. My neurons have activated. I've been pacing around my room naked for a solid hour. I had to take a nap and think about this. Ares is such an interesting god to me and you just give me this tid bit of knowledge like it's nothing??????
In the time I've had to think I've come to the conclusion that ares just wants you to fight.
Like, violence is his nature, right? I don't feel like he's going to scorn his warriors for their own violence any more than he will for yours. Everyone is able to partake in his violence and strength, if courage to fight is what you need then he opens his body for you to feast on him. Let his adrenaline course through your body as you stab out the eye of the man or women who dares to assault you. Either way violence is being enacted, so he should be satisfied.
I think he would prefer when a victim fights back because it elevated a simple attack into a battle.
Involving the times he himself would (maybe) assault some one, he might find it hot when his victims fight back. It could be foreplay to him. 🤷
Hey, I saw your Ares post!! I think what's noteworthy is that Zeus, Apollo, and Heracles all raped people. (Also, technically Zeus is supposed to uphold justics and whatnot.) I don't know Greek mythology as well as you, though, that's just what I think! <3
That's true. I didn't make this point in that post (though I did mention it previously), but the fact that the others do commit that kind of thing only makes it clear that someone not wanting one of their female relatives to be raped doesn't have to mean that they are opposed to rape in principle.
As for Ares, people often point out that he is the only Greek god with no rape myths, but, to be fair, with two or three exceptions his sexual adventures are about as detailed as the genealogies in the book of Genesis. So it might be technically accurate, but only because we know nothing about the vast majority of unions he engages in beyond the name of the mother and the identity of the resulting offspring. There are also instances where he behaves like other gods, fighting with others over a specific woman (Tanagra) or making use of disguise in order to impregnate someone (Phylonome), so Imma say that his reputation as someone who is particularly concerned with consent does seem to come pretty much out of nowhere.
There is this very interesting post discussing the connections between war, the sacking of cities and sexual violence. To quote a part of it: „this epithet ['Sacker of Cities'] cannot be interpreted as distinct from sexual violence. Sacking, as Gaca explains, is systematically killing all warriors and violating all women and girls to ensure they are subdued, owned, and forcibly bear your own children, which doubles the ownership. This is not frowned upon or the work of foot soldiers; rather, these are their orders from their commanders. Ares is continually used as a metaphor, a personification of this practice, and so is anything but unproblematic in both our modern eyes and the Greeks' own religion; he is a revered god as much as one to keep far, far away”