Teeth

Have you ever heard of vagina dentata?

I had a hard time concentrating after a short inhale of acknowledgment, drying out in this state of incompleteness the whole afternoon. Vagina dentata is Latin for toothed vagina and apparently it wasn’t just another comical metaphor suggesting fierce vagina or something but real teeth growing inside a girl’s vagina. If I were to rate the disturbing scale of 1-10, this would pretty much be an eleven. All it took was a random click on the Teeth movie trailer, a horror black comedy independent film by Mitchell Lichtensein. Fucking brilliant concept and impudence to share about, where the teeth in a vagina’s at most time bites of the penis when having a sex intercourse. That is no doubt smart and slick, entirely unashamed throwing a few nasty shocks and public psyche into a perfect equation of being.

 I havent watch the film yet (soon) but after reading the spoiler, I couldn’t agree more with Ev that this is the weirdest movie plot that I have ever encountered. Ever. And I thought Hard Candy was the bold subject.

The disturbance and confuse and the beginning goes ambling aimlessly and haunt the most part of me because I was told that there are real incident where real vaginas of woman actually consist the growth of teeth, and I couldn’t bring myself to decide anymore on the following part of the supposing myth, where they served as the weapon of sex and bites of penises. The sanity can suffer much. I read on the myth of vagina dentata just enough to realize that it leaves traces from various to diverse culture since long time ago. I could only hope that this were to happen to a rape victim but sadly the myth even appeared in Salvador Dali painting and his neurotic dreams. I cant help but wondered, could it be possible that the existence of womb fear and man’s fear of sexual intercourse are real? If so, when did violent rape came in to the picture and why?

The myth tales, on the other hand, totally bury me in shocked.

“Jonathon Green writes that “male fear and even hatred of the vagina persists unabated: emotions that are faithfully reflected in slang” (1993), citing examples such as ’snatch’, ’snatch-blatch’, ’snatch box’/’snatch-box’, ‘vacuum’, ’sperm-sucker’, ‘wastepipe’, ‘fool trap’, ‘fly-catcher’, ‘bite’, ’snapper’, ’snapping turtle’, ‘carnal-trap’, ‘mangle’, ‘manhole’, ‘man-trap’, ‘prick-skinner’, ‘eel-skinner’, ‘eel-trap’, ‘mouse-trap’, and ’skin-the-pizzle’. The perception here is of the vagina as an organ with “hidden dangers lurking within” (Erica Jong, 1973), ready to trap, snap, swallow, skin, or otherwise incapacitate the penis.”

“It is indirectly personified by the Etruscan demoness Culsu (who carries scissors) and the Alawan goddess Kunapipi (who swallows men with her womb), both of whom have names etymologically related to ‘cunt’”

“Pablo Picasso painted a woman holding a tray of sea urchins, with the creatures as representations of the vagina dentata.”

“Salvador Dali has depicted the vagina as a lobster with sharp claws”

Teeth continues to celebrate the flowing good critics and review from the Sundance film festival.

Girls just shrugged and feel awesome.

Guys acclaimed it to be the horror film for male species in general. Sleep with one eye open that is.

I however, still don’t quite like the idea of teeth growing in my vaginas wtf. Yes I completely feel for the woman about female power and rights but the twisted aggressiveness still gross me out. Nonetheless, I will be the brave-watcher next week. I heard Jess Weixler, the toothed vagina actress are a resemblance of a young Kate Winslet.

P/s This always happened when i am having group chat with the besties. This time its a toothed vagina discovery. I wonder whats next?