Emma Hardy

I found that quite hard to grapple with because...

I don't think it's necessarily wrong to be angry, but this kind of anger was becoming destructive.

I did kind of fear at times that, like, not a violent person, but I did fear that because the anger was so strong in me that I could – had that potential to be a violent person.

And I think that was also a really confronting thought as well.

It's that, like –

I don't know, we all want to think of ourselves as good people, but we all do contain these multitudes within us.

And when we're unwell and that's brought to the forefront and we're feeling angry, it's not the face that we want to see in the mirror.

quote unquote this is how it was historically called like hysteria hysteria right what did you discover looking into that kind of history and researching all these myths and taboos around women that maybe in hindsight actually probably just had pmdd yeah they might have just had pmdd or they might have just been righteously angry as well like when we look um at a whole bunch of female monsters which i became obsessed with because obviously i'm looking at myself with the mirror i'm thinking you're so angry could you be violent that feels like this monstrous feeling this impossibility

And it just feels too big to be true as well.

And I looked at like a whole bunch of different female monsters.

And the things that kept coming back was that like they...

or the things that they had in common tended to be that they either ate too much, they were devouring people or things or meat, they were too angry.

So if you look at Carrie, she couldn't control her emotions on prom night when something horrible happened to her.

She'd been bullied, she'd been picked on, and she got angry, and that is the moment where she becomes a monster.

Before that, she's just a bullied woman, but when she shows that anger and it turns violent, she's crossed that threshold.

She's no longer...

She can no longer go back to being normal after that.

She's a monster.

Or, yeah, they are angry or they have too much pain.

So like Medusa, the myth of Medusa, told a different way.