“I have never understood, and still do not understand the notion that a woman must first endure a victimhood of some sort – abandonment, abuse, oppression of the patriarchy – to be monstrous. Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason. But why would she do it? Why, why, why?”
