[UA] Movies & Books -- with spoilers!

[Matthew Rowan Norwood]

> My complaint?  Well, surprise surprise, the bad guy gets the drop on the
> heroine and... forces her to strip naked.  Honestly, when did this become
> such a cherished trope?  I'd like to read a book with a strong heroine who
> doesn't get sexually humiliated via the threat of violence.  There's these
> two books, there's the gratuitous rape scene in "The Diamond Age" (which
> was otherwise just groovy)... do I just pick out these books somehow?

Wow. As I was thinking of a way to counter this trend with a UA
character, I came up with a sick-ass idea. My first go was a woman who
makes a habit out of raping men -- tying them up and penetrating them
with various objects, etc. Scary, and a good way to reverse some of the
sexual dynamics that spring up around female charactes in games (as long
as she remains immune to having the tables turned on her, ever). 

My second go was a fleshworker in deep psychosis from past sexual abuse:
she developed epideromancy through her insanity, reacting to the
feelings of violation by desexualizing her body, even going so far as to
seal up her orifices. Maybe the Freak has something like this going on?
The Mystic Hermaphrodite can just as easily be the Mystic Androgyne or
the Sexless Angel or the Castrati or the Eunuch...

Anyway, there's something really creepy about this woman with her mouth
sealed up _on purpose_ and her body a seamless, curve-less wall of
skin... or even something other than skin...

-Matt Norwood

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