Women identify with monsters because they are driven to feel as though they are not human
Exactly. At least monsters have sharp teeth and can defend themselves.
Also, expression of pure rage.
monsters don’t have to be feminine and pretty and can eat the men who attack them
Not to derail either of these comments but let’s also examine their underlying sentiments a) women’s affinity with monstrousity is related to the degree of defenselessness and inability to express anger. Monsters are big and scary, monsters offer a metaphorical protection to what we see as a real threat (men) b) Monsters are free from the shackles of compulsory femininity which women can feel so alienating they identify with the inhuman. Anything which does not have to perform the constraints of “woman” is therefore freeing.
