# When you read the word "gorgon," what image comes to mind? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-word-gorgon-what-image-comes-to-mind/593343 "2011-08-19T18:04:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-word-gorgon-what-image-comes-to-mind/593343/121 "2011-08-23T06:16:26Z")
Replace Boris with Uma Thurman ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-word-gorgon-what-image-comes-to-mind/593343/122 "2011-08-23T06:21:21Z")
And incidentally, wouldn’t MED-USA be a much better name for ObamaCare? And there’s already the caduceus, so the imagery coincides perfectly… ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-word-gorgon-what-image-comes-to-mind/593343/123 "2011-08-23T14:30:49Z")
> [@bump](#): > > The stop-motion animated Gorgon from the old-school “Clash of the Titans” movie. me too ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-word-gorgon-what-image-comes-to-mind/593343/124 "2011-08-23T15:34:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Why the glares? **kaylasdad** just made it easier for you to do a Google Image Search. Getting the name wrong was PART OF THE JOKE! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-word-gorgon-what-image-comes-to-mind/593343/125 "2011-08-23T20:23:06Z")
Oh. You really should, like, label those. As for the hotness factor, I’ve always pictured Medusa (or other gorgons) as being butterfaces, or maybe butterskins. The curves are all right, but then there’s the whole scaly bloody angry thing. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-word-gorgon-what-image-comes-to-mind/593343/126 "2011-08-23T20:40:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Oh. You really should, like, label those. That is beneath me. > [@](#): > > As for the hotness factor, I’ve always pictured Medusa (or other gorgons) as being butterfaces, or maybe butterskins. The curves are all right, but then there’s the whole scaly bloody angry thing. [Athena worshipper] Far be it from me to speculate on my God’s motives or aims, but I tend to think that when She transformed Medusa into her monstrous from, it would have pleased Her to allow her to retain the facial pulchritude she had as a mortal. Whatever ugliness Medusa had was spiritual, not physical; the petrifying effect was only an expression of what was inside. It should go without saying of course that Medusa, like Arachnae, totally had it coming. The other gorgons may well have had disfigured faces, however. [/athena worshipper] ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-word-gorgon-what-image-comes-to-mind/593343/127 "2011-08-23T21:43:03Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > That does nothing to explain his presence in _Tarzan & His Mate_ (otherwise known as “the Johnny Weismueller Tarzan movie with naked Margaret O’Hara! Or is it Margaret O’Sullivan? Or just Sullivan! Oh, I can ever keep it straight. Frankly I should just use the official title, it’s shorter”) by those in the know. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Maureen. Maureen O’Sullivan. > ETA: Rawrr. > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > :: glares :: > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Getting the name wrong was PART OF THE JOKE! Oh. Then you spelled “whoosh” wrong. It has no “g’s”, “l’s”, “a’s” “r’s”, or “e’s.” ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-word-gorgon-what-image-comes-to-mind/593343/128 "2011-08-23T22:02:17Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Oh. > > Then you spelled “whoosh” wrong. It has no “g’s”, “l’s”, “a’s” “r’s”, or “e’s.” The usual threats. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-read-the-word-gorgon-what-image-comes-to-mind/593343.md?page=6)