Sock it to me, Tina Turner sings.
Theres nothing more our country loves than a slut in sheeps clothing.
Post-Halloween, post-election, and post-New Year, the slut deserves another look in the horror genre.
Film audiences cant have one salacious event without the other.
The knife penetrates the proverbial slut with more phallic potency and power than any boyfriend or child possess.
This trope is our entertainment.
A crew of men sits before the surveillance screen in breathless anticipation.
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If this is true, what are American sexual attitudes today?
Donald Trump jokes about sexual assault and is now president-elect.
Is it meant to terrorize or titillate when it embraces the violent elements we and our media otherwise ignore?
That film begins at Camp Crystal Lake with several one-dimensional slut stereotypes immediately taking center stage.
The POV shot leads the audience up the stairs to find a couple cavorting on the floor.
We werent doing anything, the boy sheepishly says, fumbling with his trousers before hes stabbed.
Imbuing Jules with chemicals via hair dye, a government agency literally transforms her into a bimbo.
Blondes really do have more fun.
The effect is not titillating, but merely laughable.
What feels like innocent sex becomes a lingering and omnipresent waking nightmare.
Quite simply: sex can kill.
Shes forced to play the slut, not just for the genre, but so that she can survive.
It is that identification [and] the official denial of that identification that Clover seeks to understand.
But is it identification with the woman, the girl, and the slut that the horror genre constructs?
She writes, With pornography, fragmented body parts become sexualized so that someone can get pleasure from something.
Yet thatsomething the woman used in pornography was at one point someone, a very specific someone.
The pieces of flesh constitute the horror.
In the opening scene, Janet Leigh sprawls on a bed in her white bra and slip.
It is her naked body that offends, even as it titillates.
After theGame of Thronesepisode Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken aired, many viewers complained about the graphic rape scene.
The incident was covered byVarietyand by Dave Itzkoff inThe New York Times.
Good girls dont kiss boys.
To think otherwise is to wed the aggression and eroticism that Camille Paglia champions.
Slutdom begets the spectators desire for female death.
Though Jennifereats men like air, she still dies, punished for reversing the gender playing field.
Likely not in 2017, given how this year is already shaping out.
