Are you a wife, witch or whore?

[CharleyH]

Been re-thinking Robert Graves' "The White Goddess," along with everything I learned, re-learned or unlearned at U.

The verdict was that in literature, film, pop-culture, female characters are written about or imagined as either a wife, a witch, or a whore with varying consequences or rewards.

Do your female characters fall into these categories?

And do your male characters fall into similar categories?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Oddly enough, No. but then again I was an Art Major.
Now you have me thinking differently.

 

[smutpen]

Been re-thinking Robert Graves' "The White Goddess," along with everything I learned, re-learned or unlearned at U.

The verdict was that in literature, film, pop-culture, female characters are written about or imagined as either a wife, a witch, or a whore with varying consequences or rewards.

Do your female characters fall into these categories?

And do your male characters fall into similar categories?

Wife, witch or whore?
What about goddess?

I think my males are pretty much stock characters; I'm much more interested in the women...

 

[CharleyH]

Oddly enough, No. but then again I was an Art Major.
Now you have me thinking differently.

As an art major, I am sure that you survey/ surveyed Made her naked or nude?

So if she isn't Wife (ie virgin mary), Witch (as in Sigourney Weaver aka Alien) or Whore (do I need to say anything?) what the http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/winking/winking10.gif is she?

NOW . . . you HAVE me thinking http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/scared/scared07.gif

 

[Guest]

Oh! I thought you were talking about me!

Am I wife, witch, or whore?

'Cause I would have to say - "Yes."

 

[Boxlicker101]

Been re-thinking Robert Graves' "The White Goddess," along with everything I learned, re-learned or unlearned at U.

The verdict was that in literature, film, pop-culture, female characters are written about or imagined as either a wife, a witch, or a whore with varying consequences or rewards.

Do your female characters fall into these categories?

And do your male characters fall into similar categories?

Most of my female characters are not wives. Some of them are married but their husbands are not usually included in the stories. None of the characters are witches because they are usually nice to the other persons in the stories. They aren't whores because nobody ever gets paid for sex. Actually the usual male character, George Boxlicker, is more of a whore than the women because he goes around calling on women or having them call on him and services them sexually althugh no money is ever involved. I wouldn't call the women sluts either because, first, I don't like the word and, second, they are not promiscous. They are just women who enjoy having sex with the men in the stories.

How about "playmate" and I DO NOT mean that in any way having any comparison to Playboy Magazine.

 

[Guest]

Charlus, I've yet to write about a 'wife', but if I did she wouldn't be a stereotype, nor would a witch or whore. In fact, I'd write about a who're (big diff ). I think 'the culture' nearly world-wide has changed enough in the past few decades so that aside from some pop stuff, the old madonna/whore image of women is not so saleable anymore.

Perdita Putana

 

[ruminator]

Charlus, I've yet to write about a 'wife', but if I did she wouldn't be a stereotype, nor would a witch or whore. In fact, I'd write about a who're (big diff ). I think 'the culture' nearly world-wide has changed enough in the past few decades so that aside from some pop stuff, the old madonna/whore image of women is not so saleable anymore.

Perdita Putana

Hi Perdita

I found your thoughts of madonna/whore not as applicable interesting. Maybe it's just me, but I think it's still extremely exciting and am easily attracted to that combination.

I was going to post earlier that I would love to have one that is all 3 combined.



From the male point of view as to it's appeal to women, I think it would. It seems like women are often attracted to the bad boys for fun but want someone who is more stable for a partner. I like to be a multi-faceted individual and offer as many sides as possible.

 

[Guest]

Hi Rum, good to see you (what there is of you). I was speaking academically mostly. What you speak of is a bit more personal, and I get that. What's different 'today' is that the images/stereotypes are out in the open at least, e.g., role-playing. What I am glad is out the proverbial window is the very ingrained idea that women can only be madonna or whore (which allowed men to marry one and fuck the other on the side).

More men know now that just cos a woman becomes a mother doesn't mean she's lost her sexuality. For me it also means that just cos a woman is post-oestrus doesn't mean she's lost interest in sex or has discarded that part of her identity.

I'm not looking for a partner so I'm free to go from bad boy to nerd, and everything in between. Lucky me.

Perdita

 

[shereads]

As an art major, I am sure that you survey/ surveyed Made her naked or nude?

So if she isn't Wife (ie virgin mary), Witch (as in Sigourney Weaver aka Alien) or Whore (do I need to say anything?) what the http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/winking/winking10.gif is she?

NOW . . . you HAVE me thinking http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/scared/scared07.gif

Can the Virgin Mary be a wife? God's wife, right? But did Joseph get any?

Is there a category for Frothing Feminist?

 

[shereads]

Charlus, I've yet to write about a 'wife', but if I did she wouldn't be a stereotype, nor would a witch or whore. In fact, I'd write about a who're (big diff ). I think 'the culture' nearly world-wide has changed enough in the past few decades so that aside from some pop stuff, the old madonna/whore image of women is not so saleable anymore.

Perdita Putana

I don't know, Perdita. Madonna the entertainer did pretty well for herself before she took on the wife role.

 

[minsue]

Re: Oh! I thought you were talking about me!

Am I wife, witch, or whore?

'Cause I would have to say - "Yes."

I was about to say the same thing!

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Oh! I thought you were talking about me!

I was about to say the same thing!

All the best women are!

 

[oggbashan]

I've written about wives.
I've written about witches.
I've written about a whore.
I'm writing about a goddess.

I think they are the same women.

Og

 

[Uther_Pendragon]

Well, something like half my stories are about married
couples. So, a lot of my heroines are wives. None of them
are whores. Even Melissa, of the numbered stories, isn't
a whore -- she might pay for it, but she doesn't get paid
for it.
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A lot, not on Lit, could be called "future wives." They
are girls -- women in one or two cases -- who are likely to
get married in the future. Witches? One, formally. Maybe
one or two secondary characters in the slang sense. (I
once heard a woman called "A witch with a capital B.")
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I think this trichotomy leaves out career women. It
probably leaves out some other categories. (Even in old
ficion, many women were mothers. They were married, but
the definition of them in the story was WRT their children,
not their husbands.)

 

[Classical_Wizard]

either a wife, a witch, or a whore with varying consequences or rewards. Do your female characters fall into these categories?
And do your male characters fall into similar categories?

It depends on what i have in mind for my female characters. My males tend to be more on the dark side of husband, bastard, and whore lately only because i'm in the anti hero mood.

 

[Black Tulip]

wife
mother
witch
whore
goddess

I miss one: amazon.

Yes, you got that right, you can find them in some of my stories. LOL

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I'm still pondering this C, you're making me think, stop it.

 

[Black Tulip]

About the male characters, well I needed to think a bit more.

I'm afraid they are mostly a good fuck. That's all.

 

[SeaCat]

I talked to my wife about this as well as thinking about it. I would have to say that in all of my stories the women have been a combination of at least two of them. They also have other traits. As for my male characters, it seems to run about the same.
As for my wife,well she combines the beast traits of all of the above plus some. This is probably why I have loved her for almost thirteen years (4 July) now and continue to love her as time goes on. Could be where a lot of my characters come from.

Cat