Women’s Homicidal Rage Is All Over TV—and It’s Funny

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  • Women’s Homicidal Rage Is All Over TV—and It’s Funny | WIRED

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    Women, in America’s traditional view, are moral creatures. Justice and Liberty? Ladies both. Since ousting the Red Coats, American politicians have been lionizing “the republican mother”: a woman who stays within the domestic sphere, but shapes her country by instilling her inherent virtues in young patriots. Killing Eve’s hilariously brutal assassin, Villanelle, would have flown their wigs.

    Digital feminism has developed a very specific comedic sensibility, an in-jokey penchant for irony and shock that’s both rallying cry and defense mechanism. That iconic mug of male tears is only a joke, but is also a digital signpost: “No Trolls Allowed (Or Tolerated).” Over the last few years, especially in the wake of #MeToo, that humor has made its way out of niche online spaces and onto more and different screens. But it’s not male tears they’re drinking. The women are shamelessly (sometimes literally) gulping down blood.