Arielle Bernstein, Rumpus Film/TV/Media and Saturday Editor, writes about Rihanna, bitches, and blood over at Salon:
Women are raised on images of toxic masculinity just like the men around us are. Many of us also played “Grand Theft Auto” and watched great films featuring tons of sexualized violence against women: “Last Tango in Paris,” “A Clockwork Orange,” “Goodfellas,” “Wolf of Wall Street” —the list goes on and on. A number of women love series like “Game of Thrones” and “True Detective,” which often feature brutalized women as victims, not in spite of the violence, but because, like men, we’ve come to recognize the allure of blood lust, as well as the amazing tapestry of human emotions that are often explored within these worlds.
