"Crazy Chicks Are Hot?" 8 Messed-Up Portrayals of Women

[Luther Blissett]

Would this have any to do with..

Royal Opera to stage Anna Nicole premiere

The soprano playing her is pretty hot:

[Stephen Morgan]

the Black Widow trope, the idea-fear that a man will be so mesmerized by a woman's beauty he will not be able to protect himself from her web. (Again, this concept is far from reality: women are three times as likely to be killed by their partners as men, and women account for 85 percent of victims of domestic abuse.)

This is total rubbish, as the statistics show women to commit an dequal share of violence and about two fifths of intimate murders.

I mean,... Duh! Of course it isn't reality. I don't think people come to movies to escape their lives of fantasy.

I'm not sure exactly what the author's point is...

It’s a classic take on the Nabokov pedophilic man-fantasy while exploiting male fears that women will make false claims against them

How much of a fear is this really? As a man, i'd feel the fear would be the other way around. The condom thread earlier surveyed men in South Africa. More than 20% of them were guilty of rape. I guess such fear was never an initial consideration in a male dominated society.

Yeah, I mean it's not like anyone in authority ever tried to present black men as in some way sexually predatory, is it? I mean, if they did we might not have such a well defined, suitably foreign looking, villain to scorn. Might even, assuming we were to believe these statistics, start to ask why, fifteen years after democracy and racial equality supposedly came to Saff Africa, the majority of the population have no medical treatment beyond a bizarre superstition about raping virgins. Wouldn't want that. Also wouldn't want anyone pointing at the American phenomenon of lynching, and that the most common reason for this was alleged sexual misconduct by black men towards white women, one of the similarities between feminism and the Klan being their flexible definition of rape.

It's okay to cite Nabokov's fiction but not movie fiction, btw? That comes across as blindly snobish to me.

While the lowest instances of stalkings are women-on-women, the concept makes for great bank at the box office.

Again this is fiction. The Day the Earth Stood Still was not a documentary. Are the filmmakers obligated to address a reality addendum to everything they make?

Without identification of a trend, this is lost. BTW Alternet is alot like Huffington Post. I wonder when we can expect Yahoo to move in for the takeover.

Reminds me of a film called If..., but all I really remember is the bit at the end where they all die in a shoot out with the police.

I'm curious how this topic might fit into Stephen Morgan's anti-feminist worldview.

I really don't think it's relevant. My immediate reaction is that crazy chicks, like drunk chicks, are scary in that they remind us of the thin like between chaotic pit of irreason which awaits us, ever seeking to dissolve our conscious minds and leave us gibbering wrecks in a world of nightmare. I simply don't think you can take a supposed theme from a handful of movies and extrapolate a grand societal trend.

I feel like the author is projecting.

If I wrote this article, it would be like "Why Funny Chicks Are Hot."

Comedians tend to be extremely intelligent. Dara O'Briain, for example, was a trainee theoretical physicist. The Radio 4 programme The Infinite Monkey Cage found a never ending supply of scientist/comedians. Ben Miller was on, not just a comedian but an actor too, turns out he did a PhD in quantum physics at Cambridge. Well, female comedians are also, to use the vernacular, "hot".