I saw the movie Teeth the other night.
It was probably best that I didn't know very much about it before I went, because I'm not certain I would have seen it if I had. But it was excellent.
Briefly: Dawn is the local chastity group's most active particpant. She discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence.
Teeth borrows from the vagina dentata myth, giving Dawn a toothed vagina (the teeth are similar in shape to a cross between a shark tooth (the root) and an eel tooth (the serrated edge), but have human DNA, according to the tooth expert), which she learns to use as an empowering tool after suffering violence and assholes.
When it was over, me and my friend looked at each other and said, "I want one!"
See it. I regret to say that the toothed vagina never makes an appearance (but I felt I had to say it, just so you know), but there is plenty of blood and chomped-off body parts that you do get to see. (And yes, the chomped-off male genitalia looks more like a dildo than an actual penis that has been severed, but I'm pretty sure that that's because if it did, it wouldn't look much like a severed penis.)
Two thumbs up!!
Monday, March 31, 2008
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I am so glad you came with me to see that movie, because honestly . . . umm, who else would I have watched it with? It's not a date movie (the boy just happened to be with me that night); it's a feminist movie that needs to be seen and analyzed with another feminist.
Also, as we discussed in the car, just how different would society be if all females were born with vagina dentata? That, in itself, would be a HUGE discussion.
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