Blood and Horror

More Caitlin Flanagan here, and a lot to like. Including, perhaps, just a bit of tasty smugness at an ungainly sentence: "They reveal something about the eternal and dangerous nature of being female, and because of this, they merit a great deal of our attention." Blech. Also a quibble: Flanagan writes that "the reality of women’s and girls’ lives is that they include as strong an impulse for sex as men’s." Women are subject to desires as strong as men's, yes, and just as motivating, but sex is generally the instrument, not the ends, of that desire.