Unleashing the monstrous feminine, we delve into its resurgence in contemporary culture. A phenomenon that challenges societal norms, it redefines femininity in a powerful, often terrifying, yet intriguing way. Prepare to explore this captivating paradigm shift.
The hex for a penis
It’s less about the removal of the penis than how we as the castrators feel about removing the penis.
- Often, the hex is less of a choice than it is a survival mechanism – a necessity – in a world that routinely and thoughtlessly violates, abuses and traumatizes women.
The Malleus Maleficarum states that certain witches, against the instinct of human nature, and indeed against the nature of all beasts, with the possible exception of wolves, are in the habit of devouring and eating infant children
Eating your child is an unfortunate, yet necessary, side effect of freedom.
- Sometimes, when I’m walking home on my own at night, I think about what it would be like to stalk silently behind men, my feet soft and easy on the pavement, quick flash of my shadow under the street lights. To not think, even in passing, of defense.
The Malleus Maleficarum, Heinrich Kramer’s theological and legal treatise on how to find, torture and murder a witch
The female body has been codified as disgusting, defective, and unclean from time immemorial
- For Freud, the female body is defined by its fundamental lack: uncanny, strange, and unfinished
- “Probably no male human being is spared the fright of castration at the sight of a female genital”
- This is why so many euphemisms for the vagina focus on the female genitals as a wound: cleft, axe-wound, gash – the woman is always a site of violence
Female praying mantises devour up to a quarter of males during intercourse
Typically, they eat the head first – this may happen at the start or end of the sexual encounter.
- In salt slow’s opener, ‘Mantis’, a boy leads the narrator upstairs, his hands ‘grabby’.
- ‘I knew you wanted it,’ he says, as the familiar situation washes over the reader: party, alcohol, tightening grip on the arm
- We recognize this narrative because we have lived it, have heard and seen it, watched it play out a thousand times on TV and in newspapers and in quiet, hushed conversations between friends. It has happened, in some way, small or large, to every woman we know, and to those we don’t.
