#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)]

[fabiansociety]

ooh, and one for carol clover's men, women, and chainsaws, a book i keep talking about to anyone who'll listen

[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??

[theblvcksupreme]

For the first time in 33 years, the big 3 categories at the GRAMMYs were won solely by Black artists (Album of the Year, Song of the Year & Record of the Year).

[comradekarin]

I know I said this already, but fujimoto making all of the horsemen women is why he’s close to getting a 10 from me (and men never get 10s from me). war devil, control devil (?), death devil, and the famine devil. even when they reincarnate it’s always into a female host. no other male writer would have done that. very excited to see what he does with the death devil after reading chapter 196. and horsemen aside, his female cast is so goated. asa and quanxi and kobeni and power and makima and himeno- very rare instance of a female cast outshining the male cast in the shounen genre….. fujimoto wants to get pegged so bad…….!

[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👍

[martyrbat]

men, women, and chainsaws – carol j. clover

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

[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"

[biitchesbrew]

my thoughts on TCM: The Next Generation part2

[mskunigami]

Chapter two coming soon fr fr

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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