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A question for you (yes, you!)
Man, WisCon is awesome. So, I'm totally going to talk about some of the panels I've been to (I say this every year, don't I? But I mean it this time! Please believe me?) and stuff, but first, I'd like to try to start a discussion here.
I went to a panel today titled "Monstrous females and female monsters" (or perhaps it was vice versa - I'm too lazy to look it up right now) and I ended up ducking out early for various reasons (mostly my phone died. Yarg!). This is a topic which is near and dear to my heart, though. I LOVE female monsters - I love monsters in general, but there's something really enchanting to me about the lady ones. I was taking pictures of every single gorgon depiction I came across in the British Museum, and let me tell you, that was a lot. So. The first question that was posed to the panel was this:
What makes a monster?
And I find this really fascinating. What's a monster, as opposed to say, a person who does monstrous things? Is a witch a monster? How about an evil queen? Is there a monster spectrum along which someone can fall? Does a monster have to have something weird or inhuman about their body? Is it a factor of how scary they are, how dangerous?
Now, the panelists came up with some answers to this question, and I have some thoughts of my own, but I want to hear what you think! What makes a monster? Talk to me.
I went to a panel today titled "Monstrous females and female monsters" (or perhaps it was vice versa - I'm too lazy to look it up right now) and I ended up ducking out early for various reasons (mostly my phone died. Yarg!). This is a topic which is near and dear to my heart, though. I LOVE female monsters - I love monsters in general, but there's something really enchanting to me about the lady ones. I was taking pictures of every single gorgon depiction I came across in the British Museum, and let me tell you, that was a lot. So. The first question that was posed to the panel was this:
What makes a monster?
And I find this really fascinating. What's a monster, as opposed to say, a person who does monstrous things? Is a witch a monster? How about an evil queen? Is there a monster spectrum along which someone can fall? Does a monster have to have something weird or inhuman about their body? Is it a factor of how scary they are, how dangerous?
Now, the panelists came up with some answers to this question, and I have some thoughts of my own, but I want to hear what you think! What makes a monster? Talk to me.