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I hadn't heard any issues pertaining to sexism. The movie wasn't woke by any stretch, and Penelope was appropriately portrayed as pretty powerless in a world dominated by men.

But the movie also tied the deterioration of society to Odysseus's war crimes in Troy (and his betrayal of their trust via the Trojan Horse.) I'm pretty sure that the original poem doesn't draw that connection, and that in the original, the Trojan Horse was seen as a brilliant tactic rather than a war crime.

I hadn't heard any issues pertaining to sexism.

I was misremembering Emily Wilson's commentary, in which she seems to say it is too sexist.

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