I named the kitty who followed me home in the rain Cassandra! For obvious reasons, I thought, and it really surprised me how few people even knew about her.

Relevant comic:

Cassandra was given the gift of uttering true prophecies, but was cursed so that they would never be believed. Commonly, Cassandra incurred Apollo’s wrath by refusing him sexual favours after promising herself to him in exchange for the gift of prophecy.[15] In Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, she bemoans her relationship with the god:

Apollo, Apollo! God of all ways, but only Death’s to me, Once and again, O thou, Destroyer named, Thou hast destroyed me, thou, my love of old!

And she acknowledges her fault:

I consented [marriage] to Loxias [Apollo] but broke my word. … Ever since that fault I could persuade no one of anything.[16]

Latin author Hyginus writes in his Fabulae:[17]

Cassandra, daughter of the king and queen, in the temple of Apollo, exhausted from practicing, is said to have fallen asleep; whom, when Apollo wished to embrace her, she did not afford the opportunity of her body. On account of which thing, when she prophesied true things, she was not believed.

However, other versions of the story have been given; Tzetzes wrote that Cassandra and her brother Helenus received their gifts of prophecy after being left overnight in the temple of Apollo, and in the morning they were found with serpents licking their ears.[18] Additionally, Euripides wrote that Apollo left Cassandra to be a virgin, and the god was angered when Agamemnon took her as a concubine.[19]

Her cursed gift became an endless pain and frustration to her. She was seen as a liar and a madwoman by her family and by the Trojan people. Because of this, her father, Priam, had locked her away in a chamber and guarded her like the madwoman she was believed to be.[20] Though Cassandra made many predictions that went unheeded, the one prophecy that was believed was that of Paris being her abandoned brother.[21]

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Oh fabulous. She was cursed to never be believed because she dared to say no to having sex with Apollo.

The fact that women are often questioned and not believed in this way shows this myth has not lost it’s reasons for existing.

Because the story of Cassandra doesn’t help kids get wiser, it just helps them get more cynical

I always liked the interpretation of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” as a cover story created by a negligent villagers that let a kid get devoured by wolves.

The villagers send a small boy alone to the top of a tall hill to look out for wolves. He sees a wolf approaching from the direction opposite the village and sounds the alarm. The villagers show up, but the wolf hears the alarm and runs away before the villagers get there. The villagers ignore the boy and his pleas that there was a wolf, scolding him for wasting their time. A few days later, this repeats. Finally, on the third time, the boy calls for help again, the villagers don’t show up, and the boy is devoured. When the villagers eventually find the resulting horror scene, they get their story straight to defend themselves. They tell people that the boy lied, that he laughed when they came to the top of the hill, when in reality he told them the truth, and they didn’t believe him.

What kind of reasonable adult sends a small child out alone to guard against viscous predators? That sounds like negligence to me. Exactly the type of thing someone would lie to cover up.

Because the boy who cried wolf story is a good parable for anyone, and the story of Cassandra is only useful for people who will either never understand the lesson, or those who already know it too well.

Isn’t the Cassandra story retold in pretty much every sci-fi tv show at some point? I feel like it’s so common it’s almost a trope now.

Because we’re teaching kids not to lie.

Kids not listening to women isn’t natural, that’s also a thing we teach them. We should stop.

Thought this was going to be a joke about how the boy who cried wolf story being repeated too much made it lose its impact lol.

I suppose because one is a fable and the other is my average day.

Damn. Fair point.

I appreciate your posts. This one included. Thank you! :)

I call ADHD Cassandra disease

Deleted my comment because I didn’t realize the poster was Ninki minjaj, not Nicki Minaj. Ignore me!

Parody account names always fuck me up lol

BECAUSE SHE’S A WOMAN REEE