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I think that was the point of the stories, though. She can't effectively refuse Zeus anything. Her function is "protector" of married women, not women in general, in a patriarchal society that had effed up views of women. The whole reason she was married to Zeus was because he raped her, and she was ashamed and wanted the "protection" of marriage. Her stories involving spite tend to emphasize Zeus as a protector, while simultaneously shaming women who have sex outside of marriage and depicting angry wives as irrational.

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