“What an ugly sight. Did she devour her stamen again?” Throughout history female sexuality has been portrayed as this monstrous force with a startling narrative insistence, embodying sexual anxieties of the day with a woman’s agency feared. Questionable in their explicitly masculine-coded display of sexual politics (Kill la Kill stumbling through triumphant bursts of agency … Continue reading A Monstrous Force: Darling in the FranXX’s Suppression of Female Sexuality
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