Agree with all of this. I took a women's history class in college and the professor actually brought up Medusa as a feminist figure, for the reasons you explained. I was already of that mind because my mom studied Greek history extensively and talked about it a lot and we had bookshelves full of material on it growing up (though her specialty was ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia). It's why she named my sister Cassandra!
I honestly thought this was common knowledge but the comments here are making me doubt that now :( Apparently most people just know her as a monster.
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