It is sexy when a damsel
in distress cringes and screams. Her action is submissive and her utterance
passionate.
Heterosexuality is the immortality of our mortal species.
The male plugs into the female and streams information into her. A successful
download produces offspring.
The female may entice but it is the male who initiates
the actual intercourse. He must be aroused to do so. The female’s arousal is
unnecessary. The male is active and
the female passive in the
reproductive dynamic.
An entity is asserting dominance when it reaches for a
female without her consent. She is not dominated if she flees or resists. She
may be snatched and overpowered but so long as she struggles to escape or
fight, her assailant has not vanquished her.
If a female’s response to the threat is merely to cringe
and scream, she is dominated before even touched. She may squirm in the grasp
of her assailant but her writhing is as mindless as her wincing, grunting and
groaning.
The damsel in
distress archetype is the feminine threatened by something masculine. The
threat may be a monster that wants to eat her or simply keep her. It may be a
villain who wants to marry her or simply rape her. She may be a hostage or
simply a prisoner. The gist is always the same regardless.
When the damsel in
distress is the love interest of the hero, she is sure to be rescued. If
she is a scream queen in a horror
movie, she will escape or perish.
What if the damsel
in distress is an armed antagonist? What if her boss is the villain and her
assailant the hero? What if the hero is the monster?
The sexiness of the damsel is arousing. Her peril is
thrilling. A damsel in distress is especially exciting. We enjoy her terrible
moment. We hope she is rescued if she is the love interest. We hope she escapes
if she is a scream queen. Her fright
is our fun regardless.
It is unusual for the damsel
in distress to be a villain… but why not? She may be a dominatrix at the
mercy of a monster or another villain. She may be the sentries and throngs of silencing the sentry and hero versus throngs. She is comely in
aspect regardless. Her danger is thrilling regardless. She is not to be rescued.
She may escape or perish. Unlike the hero’s love interest or the scream queen,
she is not an innocent victim. Her peril may come to grim fruition to our shameless delight.
There is something about a damsel in distress. As the love interest of a hero, they invoke our sympathy; as the victim in a horror movie, we wince at their inevitable death. However, as servants of evil, there is a thrill in their demise.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. The types are identical as physical entities but differ spiritually. The danger may be the same but not the people. We hope for a poetic justice.
DeleteYou know, realistically damsels in distress cannot possibly be virgins by the time they are rescues. I always thought it was a little absurd when these TV shows had some villain place the woman in a tower and not look at her for months. And what about that dragon? Dragons need love too.
ReplyDeleteFace it. The damsel is basically a trophy. A pretty trophy. A sexy trophy. If she didn't want to be a trophy, she wouldn't have been captured in the first place.
You know what I am saying, right?
I love the idea of a damsel in distress as a villain, it brings a whole new flavor of sexy to the mix. Instead of being rescued by the hero she is dispatched in a grimly satisfying manor. Sex and violence are linked, the ever thriving ballet of dom vs sub is thrilling and speaks to us on a primal level.
ReplyDeleteYes. A baddie damsel is also the fun without a commitment. The hero need only think of himself!
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