"The monster, in her argument, is the emblem, not of "the mother," but of that really scary figure in the world made by what she calls "phallic materialism": the lesbian. The lesbian/monster is all that is "unassimilable, awesome, dangerous, outrageous, different"--in short, all that is unfuckable, all that remains chaotic beyond the ordering, taming, controlling power of what she calls the "cock" (ibid.). The lesbian/monster, the fusion of the maiden, beast, and nature, according to Harris, represents the greatest threat to patriarchal men's social problems."
Caputi, Jane. Goddesses and Monsters.
In this article, Caputi refers toBertha Harris' claim that the gynecological monster we often encounter in science fiction not only represents the power and fear of the female sex, but homosexual sexuality as well. Thus, cultural media not only seeks to create hegemonic androcentricity, but hegemonic heterosexuality as well; that the strong female is threatening to the male-order of the world, but lesbianism separates itself entirely from androcentrism, as it is both independent in gender and sexuality.
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