How the ending of Ginger Snaps: Unleashed does Brigitte a disservice and why it matters.
“You don’t think our deaths should be a little more than cheap entertainment?”: On Brigitte’s fate in ‘Ginger Snaps: Unleashed
Ginger Snaps and the impossible task of growing up female
Of course, the wolf is meant to represent puberty and, going deeper, the monstrous feminine, or the monstrousness of women — the things about women, and the female body that society fears. The bleeding, leaking, raging, fucking, desiring female body. This has been covered brilliantly in many of the really incredible articles out there for Ginger Snaps, and those are worth checking out, but I want to look at one particular part of it more closely: Ginger’s tendency towards abuse. The lycanthrope in this film does not symbolize an abuser in particular, but the abuse Ginger commits does arise from the societal restrictions placed on women, and the relative impossibility of growing up female without losing parts of yourself along the way.
Exploitation and Erasure in Ari Aster’s Hereditary
Men — even when they think they have good intentions — have always tried to push women into acting a certain way. Women should be quiet, calm, level-headed, and serene at all times. Men try to contain the inherent parts of femininity, it's extremes, it's excesses, because what is feminine still scares the shit out of them.
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