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There I’ve said it in the title so I don’t actually have to come out and say it in my post.  If you’ve ever been privy to two close girlfriends talking about their paramours, then you know what I mean.  This girl talk makes boys locker room discourse sound like Sesame Street.  After reading the Williams essay, I have to say that agree with the salient points of her argument.  To some degree, women enjoy being objectified and used as commodities for sadomasochistic purposes.  They enjoy being both the dominatrix and the dominated.  Of course, there are Feminists who will argue otherwise, but they are not being truthful.  If they were, then they would tell you the same thing I’m telling you.  In fact, horror movies seem to be the perfect vehicle for illustrating this concept.  In the horror movie, as Williams explains it, you have a young woman about to become sexually active, either in the virginal sense or right before the very act, who dies as a result of her libido.  This is an entirely male portrayal of an entirely male fantasy.  The female version of the fantasy would be to engage in the amorous encounter and then kill the dude; kind of like the praying mantis does with her mates afterwards.  That is to say, she would eat him.  Women also like war films like “Full Metal Jacket.”  In fact, it’s one of my favorites because aside from the violence, I find it to be strangely haunting and touching.  Anyway, I take a lot of heat because I can’t be counted on to watch the chick-flick with my girlfriends.  I’m a girl and I’m supposed to like them.  I would prefer to watch a scary movie with my Raisinets and Diet Coke (Both are registered trademarks and should be denoted as such with the R in the circle symbol.  TM just means someone is using the mark prior to federal registration, which confers an abundance of legal protections.  But, I digress) and settle in for a night of blood guts.  Both of which are somehow erotic.  Okay now the fun begins.   

March 3rd, 2007 at 12:25 am