In Cohen’s essay about the theses of monsters, he mentions in thesis 3 that the monster is categorizing these monsters that we are making up. The monsters that we know and love are so unique and cross so many lines of race, religion, species, etc, that they can not possibly be put into any category of classification. I agree with this notion in a sense because I do believe that these monsters are not “cookie cutter” in the sense that they are not always one species or one of anything. However, given that most modern day and past monsters all follow that same sort of idea that a monster can be anything and everything, that could in itself be a category. This is especially a 21st-century “monster” because with society finally evolving and becoming more accepting of everyone we see people who don’t necessarily fit what used to be considered as “societal norms.” And just because these people are creating their own path and finding what works best for them, does not mean that they are a monster. It just means that they are different. A recurring problem within the world as a whole but more specifically America/England is trying to hold onto the old way of doing things and deciding that we should just follow that way forever. But with the world changing and evolving, these ideologies need to evolve too in order to be a true community and society. Cohen brings up that these monsters are in a “mixed category” because it chooses to resist any classification built by the hierarchy (7) and that can also be said for the ways in which people are currently living their lives in modern America. Once they realize that there is such a thing as a “mixed category” and they are not confined within a box of who or what they can be, they jump on it.
