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Posted: January 3rd, 2008 | Author: miconian | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments![]()
As motifs go, “vaginas are dangerous” is about as ancient as they come. Among the many associations spurred in the minds of anyone watching this trailer are the obvious:
Male fear of sexually transmitted disease.
Male fear of duplicitous women.
Male fear that female sexuality ultimately derives from a place of evil.
Male fear that sex will lead to various situations equating to a loss of youth and virility, such as a marriage and fatherhood.
Male fear that the relatively recent (historically speaking) sexual empowerment of women is a bad thing.![]()
Female fear that any of the above is true, e.g. that having a vagina is ultimately a disadvantage, and that it will cause you to harm others in a way beyond your control.
Female exhilaration at the power of female sexuality.
The last item on the list is one that is not typically associated with the Dentata myth. If it ends up being part of the movie, then the story has a chance of not ![]()
sinking into exploitation cliche. Maybe. After all, the angry cutie who can’t take it anymore and is now on the warpath is a B-movie subgenre all its own.
This trailer may appeal to mouth-breathers who are incapable of understanding the explanation above, but are subject to it anyway, and intellectuals who are curious whether the filmmakers took the ideas in the last paragraph into consideration.
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