Evil In Color: A WOC’s Response to The Banality of Skeevil

My response to Sady Doyle’s The Banality of Skeevil; a piece which examines the female experience through the lens of Horror.

Two days ago I read Sady Doyle’s The Banality of Skeevil; a piece which examines the female experience through the lens of Horror.

Therein she psychoanalyzes the role the 90s heart throb played in showing the full cycle of bad romance — From the daydream of love at first sight to the climax of heart break, rape or other emotional or physical violence, in films such as The Craft & Scream.

As a woman I felt an immediate connection to the piece, as it touches upon the too tangible reality that you never really know who your significant other is or will become…And often times when the knowing does come it is far too late.

Popular culture is riddled with anecdotes of those women, whom we fear so much that we’ll become that we collectively scorn and ridicule (as people, but even more so as women).

Yet we scorn them for daring to open themselves up to the vulnerability of love in ways that everyone will face at some point in their life; an outcome that will lie somewhere on the spectrum between desirable and disastrous — or between…