Bigger than Jesus: An Ode to Activist Icon Godzilla

He’s a 393-foot-tall radioactive genderfluid lizard with a rage problem. He’s my role model.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
7 min readApr 24, 2021

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A Godzilla sculpture made of… I’m going to say, beer cans.
I also thought I’d share this photo of my apartment. Neat, right? Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash

A monster is a style of rage. Every monster kills people — if they didn’t, they’d just be mythical creatures — and most cause destruction. None of them precisely abides by the social contract. Your monster, the one that…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.