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I'm tired of the victim narrative, especially because it erases her initial conception and ties to other prominent figures. Plus, most depictions have her as a conventionally attractive woman with snake hair rather than actual monstrous attributes.
Medusa wasn't violated for her beauty and killed for her ugliness; she was born a monster and killed to protect someone's mother. And in the version in which she is turned into a monster she willingly slept with Poseidon. The only reason Ovid wrote the narrative of her being a victim is because he hated the higher-ups and had no respect for the gods and wanted to write them as morons