[Ogre] OT: Godzilla

[Alvin Helms]

> you should know that Godzilla is not a 'he', shes a 'she'

Ridiculous. Blasphemy!

> I can't site my source because I saw the movies so very
> long ago

If you can't CITE the source, then the argument is invalid.

> there was a baby Godzilla in one of those movies and Godzilla
> was referred to repeatedly as a mother in it.

WRONG. The "baby" to which you are referring appeared first in the 1967 movie "Battle of Monster Island," released in the U.S. in 1969 as "Son of Godzilla." It also appeared in "Destroy All Monsters" (1968) and "Godzilla's Revenge" (1969). At NO point in ANY of those movies is Godzilla EVER referred to as its "mother." If you believe you heard such a reference, you are hallucinating the memory.

Quite to the contrary of your hallucinated memory, I call your attention to the hundreds of uses of the word "he" to refer to Godzilla throughout every Japanese Godzilla movie ever made -- INCLUDING those that featured Godzilla's "son" (whose name was Minya, incidentally). The "baby's" origin is never explained in any way at all, presumably because it is not relevant.

> I suppose one could make an argument for Godzilla (being reptilian)
> could be hermaphroditic or some sort of egg laying male...

Yes, one could make that argument -- IF one were a blaspheming heretic (or a money-grubbing American director with no respect for Japanese tradition).

Of course, one would also have to place far too much emphasis on an incredibly rare phenomenon that usually only occurs in certain amphibians -- but if you're committing blasphemy anyway...

> ...but from what I can remember it was definetly portrayed as
> Godzilla being a she.

As previously mentioned, you definitely remember wrong.

Godzilla is MALE.


-- Alvin Helms