Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.

“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”


― Jane Bowles
Two Serious Ladies

 

Aarne-Thompson Type 2009 by Jillian Buckley

Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviewers Describe A Scene In Which A Teenage Boy Covers A Teenage Girl’s Mouth As She Screams No, Bangs Her Head Against A Rock and Then Rapes Her As She Slips Into Unconsciousness

She has put herself in a dicky situation

His baser urges take control

He succumbs to temptation

He Gets horny

Gets a tad bit impatient

Is a little too forward

Is an unprincipled horndog

Just can’t keep those shorts on

sex-crazed demons that we
are men
just can’t stop trying to degrade
our heroine

And when the rapist is castrated

This is very much a female empowerment film

every male in the theater will cross his legs in empathy

he seems genuinely hurt–
by the rejection
as much as the castration. In a bloody,
nightmarish, young-romantic way,
it’s kind of
touching.

 

 

Jillian Buckley is a full-spectrum doula and tenants' rights organizer. Last week, she saw a baby born inside the amniotic sac. Unrelatedly, she is being sued for $31,000,000 for slander. Other writing has appeared in DIAGRAM, Yes! Magazine Online, and TheMarker.

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