#alcmene

Someone: Clytemnestra is like a rare exception to the rule...she is a woman that speaks her mind

Someone: Electra is like a rare exception to the rule...she is a woman that speaks her mind

Someone: Antigone is like a rare exception to the rule...she is a woman that speaks her mind

Someone: Alcmene is like a rare exception to the rule...she is a woman that speaks her mind

Someone: Penelope is like a rare exception to the rule...she is a woman that speaks her mind

Someone: Hecuba is like a rare exception to the rule...she is a woman that speaks her mind

Me: ...

“but it’s only because Hera doesn’t like another woman’s kids surpassing hers”

And rightly so! She absolutely shouldn’t be happy if her kids are neglected in favor of a bastard when marriage (her domain!) only existed to protect women and her legitimate offspring.

Kids definitely aren’t the ONLY reason though, she wasn’t happy about Ganymede being loved by Zeus, while at the same time definitely had affection for Athena, who isn’t Zeus’s affair baby.

If another woman is choosing to have kids with Zeus while knowing he’s married to Hera, then she is making the conscious CHOICE to position herself as a threat to Hera.

Maybe just don’t try to mess with a woman who’s superior to you in every fathomable way and stay in your lane, which is below Hera.

This doesn’t apply to Zeus’s victims of course (Io if she was unwilling, Europa, Aegina, Antiope, Callisto, Danaë, and Alcmene you will always be respected by me), most of who Hera didn’t punish

Leto and Semele on the other hand don’t deserve to be victimized to paint Hera as a villain

If you want villain Hera, just choose one of Zeus’s victims that she went after instead of sending the message:

Oh. my. god.

Happy solstice wishes from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys