#men women and chainsaws

[martyrbat]

men, women, and chainsaws – carol j. clover

[TEXT ID: (the hero part always understood as implying some degree of monstrosity)]

[biitchesbrew]

some thoughts on TCM: The Next Generation part 1:)

[bizarrocloudy]

I wonder if I'm the first person to have listened to the audiobook reading of Carol Clover's Men, Women, and Chainsaws while hurtling along in my car at 65 mph while shoving a beef n ched down my gullet

[post-modern-prometheus]

im so at odds with the final girl trope bc it was actually coined to describe a misogynistic trend in slashers but then has been “reclaimed” without first understanding that it was a critique so like. nothing has changed??

[ddenji]

i technically already posted this panel but the gender dynamics in csm are so beyond anything else in shonen rn. yoru occupying a more traditionally masculine, agressive, perpetrative space here and denji always, always, always occupying the space of the female, the subdued, the taken advantage of. his wording here is so defensive, trying to deflect the act, because he is always being acted against. yoru, the living embodiment of war (a traditionally male system and responsibility!) being trapped in the body of a teenage girl. fujimoto does a good job of subverting traditional gender dynamics in some very subtle ways earlier in the manga, but this one seems far more blatant and disturbing in the context of denjis entire experience.

[finalgirl1984]

So in btvs, like in other horror media, the line between death and violence and sex can be blurry. The act of a vampire biting or turning someone is explicitly metaphorical for sex. (See angel sucking buffys blood at the end of season three, angel drinking blood from darlas breast, spike begging drusilla to turn him, riley cheating on buffy by getting sucked on, etc.) Similarly, staking could also be metaphorical for sex. (See buffy playfully using a baguette to stake angel). A phallic symbol penetrating a heart. Therefore, riley basically used a dildo on spike that one time he staked him with fake wood, in this essay I will-

[angel-eyes05]

really funny screenshot i found on twitter to help me ignore what the fuck just happened in chainsaw man chapter 136👍

[pinkeoni]

Awhile ago, my bestie @bellaswan-kinnie, who at the time was working on her thesis about female horror and mythology (which turned out amazing btw) made an observation regarding this scene:

In particular, she pointed out that the posters behind Mike, one for the 1975 film Jaws and the other for the stage adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors, might be there to offer additional queer-coding.

Vagina dentata, or toothed vaginas, is an old and multicultural myth, and "is rooted in the idea that the female body has hidden, dangerous secrets and that a man who has sex with a woman may risk castration."

This idea made it's way into modern horror, most literally in the 2007 film Teeth, a movie about a girl who literally has dick-biting teeth in her vagina, but the visual of a yonic monster with sharp teeth has appeared elsewhere, from Jaws, Little Shop of Horrors, to even the sarlacc pit of Star Wars.

So maybe Will just likes these two properties and has those posters in his room, but is it a coincidence that during a heart-to-heart with his gay boy bestie, where he says that he's been worrying too much about his girlfriend, that two symbols of fear of female sex is positioned squarely behind Mike's shoulders?

Gives a new meaning to "creature with a gaping mouth" doesn't it?

[hiddenramen]

i oftentimes get frustrated with the way that people use the term "male gaze" online because one, i don't particularly love that essay even in its original context (which was as a lens to analyze film), and two, because it's often misconstrued to mean "anytime a woman is hot"

[devilsskettle]

i think some of the popularity that meta horror has garnered is a little bit disingenuous tbqh even though i do like some of the movies that have come out of the subgenre, people don’t realize that the foundation of the slasher genre was established in the 60s/70s and a lot of the 80s movies that have become so classic were already riffing off of the tropes established by those movies before full fledged meta took off. the idea to make friday the 13th was sparked by the commercial success of halloween. the original script for slumber party massacre was a parody of the genre and the movie retains much of that humor which is referential to past slashers by nature. + it intentionally uses typical slasher tropes around gender and sexuality to bring forward the concerns of teenage girls. is that not something that meta horror is frequently touted as doing? child’s play is like a slasher, “except —” which is what a lot of meta horror comedies do now (“slasher except it’s a possessed doll” is not that far off from “slasher except it’s freaky friday” and whatnot). this isn’t to say that scream isn’t foundational to what the slasher genre evolved into or that contemporary meta slashers aren’t doing something interesting but i also think they tend to lean towards cynicism towards the movies they’re deriving their themes from + they’re not even as different as they think they are from “classic” 80s movies that already are borrowing from classic slashers which in turn borrowed from even older horror (for example, in halloween, laurie is watching the thing from another world from the 50s which was adapted into the now classic john carpenter’s the thing in the 80s). and of course many of these older horror movies were adapted from literature which also inspired more literature. like the shelley/byron/polidori scary story writing contest is now legendary but also you don’t get the shining without the haunting of hill house (and you don’t get the haunting of hill house without turn of the screw, for example) and the shining is probably one of the most referenced movies by other media of all time. horror has always been an intertextual genre let’s stop pretending it didn’t become “self aware” until 1996

[martyrbat]

men, women, and chainsaws – carol j. clover

[TEXT ID: "Tortured survivor" might be a better term than "hero."]

[biitchesbrew]

my thoughts on TCM: The Next Generation part2

[mskunigami]

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[wifeblade]

Im in really severe need of female youtubers who aren't video essayists, if you have any recommendations please drop them

[smudge-gate]

If I see ONE MORE MOTHERFUCKER (whether that be a man or woman let it be up to you) SAY ANYTHING. AND I MEAN ANYTHING. ABOUT SUNDRESSES.

"me when she wears a sundress 🦴"

"when she got that sundress no panties combo 🤤"

"hottest thing a girl can wear is a sundress"

"oh it's sundress season 😏"

LITERALLY SHUT THE FUUUCCKKKK UUUPPP

LIKE DAMN WE GET IT (queue that one tiktok audio)

AND THE WORST PART. HALF OF THE DRESSES THESE DUMBASS BOYS BE TALKING ABOUT. AREN'T. EVEN. SUNDRESSES. LIKE WHHHAT THE HELL 😭

I can't even play I'm so tired of these little ass boys out here being gross about a traditionally modest outfit like y'all really know how to turn something in on itself (for example: the recent controversy with dressing like a sexy nun CUZ ITS NOT OKAY)

AND SHHHAAAMMMMEEE on the annoying ass pick me girls feeding into this bullshit.

"Going out in public with a sundress to see how many men look at me"

"look at this new sundress I bought! 😜" (and proceeds to show a skims/body con dress with no bra on and body checking the entire vid)

"sundress no panties! Gotta let the girl breathe!"

like yes let her breathe but YOU KNOW the things these men and little ass immature teenage boys have been saying/seeing. PLEASE. YOU ARE SETTING US BACK. STOP FEEDING INTO THE SEXUALIZATION.

I just wish there was ONE THING men couldn't ruin for us women. ONE THING. Dresses are traditionally modest and more often then not represent something along the lines of purity (which I mean as literally just modesty) and if you wear these clothes without that intention, THATS FINE!!!! BUT MEN. BUT BOYS. PLEASE. LET US BE. LET US LIVE. GIVE ME THE CHANCE TO BREATHE WITHOUT HEARING DUMBASS SHIT FROM YOUR DIRTY MOUTHS.

had to throw this in there for funsies.

[scre6m]

exactly carol!!!!!!