thesis the aeneid comes from a similar cultural context as lord of the rings in this essay i will
“books about the quest for peace written by survivors of violent epochs”
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Women identify with monsters because they are driven to feel as though they are not human
it was really heartening to learn that the purpose of creating such a thick uterine lining during the menstrual period was to prevent the implantation of embryos rather than encourage them, and that our uterus is basically flushing out anything it deems unworthy during the period itself rather than “punishing” us for not being pregnant (which is how it’s usually framed). it’s almost as if your female body is more concerned with the protection and continuation of itself rather than being used as a procreative vessel.
the fact that we’ve come to accept the idea that our reproductive organs are punishing us for not being continuously pregnant is proof of how deeply patriarchal brainwashing has convinced women that we are nothing but broodmares for ‘their’ children.
Oh wow. Damn.
Amazing how often women are trashed for supposedly cutting off sex once they’ve got a wedding ring out of it, while almost nothing is said about how many straight dudes think that getting a ring on her means you officially get to peace out of helping with things like housework and childcare, and doing anything whatsoever to emotionally contribute to the relationship (I don’t mean big things like a dozen roses and a €400 meal at the fanciest restaurant, just little day to day shit that shows your partner that you still like and care about them ).
Do you really think these two aren’t connected? Anyone, regardless of gender, would lose their libido quickly when they’re stuck dealing with exhaustion and lowkey emotional neglect
the most fucked up thing about married straight couples in paranormal reality shows is that the husband is almost always the skeptic and the wife will be like terrified to exist in her own home and she’ll beg her husband to believe her and she’ll be crying every night and he’ll straight up look at the camera and be like “I don’t know I guess I just thought she was imagining things.”
like this is beyond belief in ghosts what it comes down to is one member of these couples was so distressed they were in tears nightly or at least weekly, BEGGING their partner to listen to them, and their partner was like “whatever this’ll blow over.”
how does your relationship survive that?? how are these people still together?? if my wife came into the room crying and told me she’d seen bill watterson, author of acclaimed comic calvin and hobbes, manifest in our kitchen and tell her he didn’t like our wallpaper, I’d like. obviously have some questions. but I’d fucking address her distress and take steps to make her feel better lmao???
these husbands are all garbage and they feel justified bc they weren’t the “crazy one” who believed in ghosts.
they were the good, logical, “sane” spouse who did rational and good things like, completely and purposefully ignore their partners’ growing and life-altering distress for months.
Idk, I always found the toxic heteronormative gaslighting to be the true horror in those shows anyway.
I remember one interview in particular that the couple was hosting a family reunion and four cousins and their mothers had all witnessed something and LEFT for a hotel in the middle of the night and the husband literally was like “they just all worked each other up!”
My favorite (”favorite”) episode was one where a very young and very obviously frightened young woman was just bawling her heart out and her husband just stared blankly at her, and then when asked about it he just shrugged and said “I dunno, I haven’t seen anything upsetting” like, your wife, bawling her eyes out and begging with you for help…is not upsetting? What?? the?? fuck??
Um, I mean these are all kinda legit as an actual trope thats leaned on as visual symbolism?
In the same way that zombies is often referring to viewing part of the population as mindless (the popularity of zombies tend to rise in years of great social upheaval) and that witches are based on misogyny and that vampirism are based on fears of sexuality:
haunted houses tend to refer to domestic abuse.
why DO teenage girls go through a witch/occult phase? I had tarot cards and a spellbook and I knew a group of girls who messed with ouija boards and another who had ghost hunting equipment. “oh yeah Cindy’s just going through that girly phase where she tries to raise the dead.”
theory – we want power and know our culture doesn’t want to give us any?
Addendum: witches are one of the few cultural figures of female empowerment that don’t derive their power from their relationship to a man.
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