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ruben: you know it's okay that you're fucked up i mean gay because my dad raped me and i came

It’s been said a million times that horror films are meant to be cathartic, and that we put ourselves through the terror as a means of symbolically overcoming something we’re afraid of. And for a woman, we’re taught that nothing is more terrifying than the ever-present threat of rape. So it seems natural to me that I would love rape-revenge films, especially when the revenge is particularly sadistic or creative, or when the female protagonist is completely transformed as a consequence. Even more exciting than the revenge is preparing for the revenge: buying a gun, learning martial arts, setting booby traps, the symbolic cutting of hair – all set to a pounding, anticipatory soundtrack.