Could you imagine if the four main friends in American Pie were girls?

It seems to me, this film really is about playing into Megan being the latest “It” girl, and showing off how sexy she is. Like, Lara Croft did with Angelina Jolie.

Unfortunately because horror films are marketed towards young males, it’s difficult to avoid horror films where women aren’t sexualized along with the plot of the film. I think Rob Zombie’s Death Proof was interesting, because it shows the women in what would be considered a stereotypical male role.

It also asks the question, would it be any less disturbing to see a pack of girls fight a man to death, than it would be the other way around? Particularly in the sense of women feeling empowered at seeing strong women in horror films. That being relentlessly violent for both genders is a bad idea.

One of the best horror films I’ve seen involving strong women, is Silent Hill. The director said on the director’s commentary, that they didn’t realize until the end of the film that the cast was all women, and they had to hire a guy to play a stock role to fill things out. Interesting, since usually it’s the woman being put into a male filled film, just for “eye-candy”.

I also however, have to admit I do have something of a girl crush on Megan Fox. So, I don’t know if I’d see the movie just based on that, being that it would be a horribly shallow reason to do so. I think the best course of action is to wait until the film is released, and then see what other people say about it.

This might be because of the Catholic Church. Yes, yes, it’s been blamed for quite alot in recent years, but this goes past that, to the very dawn of Christianity (and monotheism). Prior to this, you had your female dieties such as Astarte or Ishtar who created a fearful respect toward women.

Once Christianity was introduced in its modern form, this, along with legends of powerful Amazons, was denounced as heathen practice. In the original Genesis, Lilith (Adam’s first wife) is banished from the Garden for considering herself Adam’s superior and being in a dominant position during sex. It goes downhill from there, what with Eve’s “deception” and the ensuing fear that one day, females might want Lilithian power back.

It took me a while, but the only character I could come up with was Samantha from Sex and the City. Her power might threaten some men, but it also attracts a lot of them, and she pursues sex simply for the pleasure of it–not as a means for some other end.

When a female is dominant sexually, she is portrayed as evil. She can’t just enjoy sex, or actually desire it. She becomes a monster that has to punish men (brutally) for their sexualities–she simply uses sex as a weapon.

So, I would say it’s not a fear of male sexualities, but perhaps a punishment of male sexualities that induces fear of women who are more sexually desiring, dominant, assertive, or aggressive.