Want a monster? Get a woman

 

Thought-provoking article:

Why So Many Mythological Monsters Are Female

"Female monsters represent “the bedtime stories patriarchy tells itself,” reinforcing expectations about women’s bodies and behavior, argues journalist and critic Jess Zimmerman in Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology. In this essay collection, newly published by Beacon Press, she reexamines the monsters of antiquity through a feminist lens. “Women have been monsters, and monsters have been women, in centuries’ worth of stories,” she notes in the book, “because stories are a way to encode these expectations and pass them on.” "

Later on in the article, we learn that Medusa was initially portrayed as hideous, but has evolved into something much more sexier (see below, courtesy of VMR photos on DeviantArt).  The problem with that is -- if you want to make love to her, you have to keep your eyes closed the whole time. Because if you don't, everything's going to be rock hard, not just ... well, you know.