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“Penis Envy” My A--
The theory of “penis envy” states that a female going through the sexual development stage realizes then begins to envy a man because he has a penis. Woman would then want to have a penis because it represents “power”. First off that was such a “male” thing to say, coming for a man himself Sigmund Freud. I think that doesn’t make any sense. A woman is a lot more powerful than a man who is only powerful on the outside. It would be just like a man to think so simply as a woman wanting a penis for power when in fact woman are more powerful, by controlling the mind.( I am speaking very generally here, there are always exceptions to generalities) There are a lot of females in movies that represent this “power over the mind” motif. And men are just afraid to lose their macho, by admitting they are a lot more submissive to woman then they would like to be. In the movie The Matrix Trinity, is parallel to Allegra Geller in eXistenz, who is parallel to Luz Martinez in The Sleep Dealer. These women all played major superiority roles against the men that they encountered, using mental and sexual stimulation to “capture” (in a sense) the male figure.
In The Matrix Trinity was told that she would fall in love with “The One”. And she was not about to let that vision die when Neo was on the brink of death. Trinity show her superiority when Neo laid in the chair dying and her very words was that she was suppose to fall in love with him and she was now falling for him. While in a sense Trinity took the submissive role, Neo fell into the metal trap of what she said and pulled himself out of the grave. As the only real significant woman in the movie she was able to role with “the big dogs” while still maintaining a part of femininity to be liked. She was very powerful in that she was an excellent program reader that she ever taught Neo a few things. Mind you Trinity did all of this without the necessity of a penis. Once the mind is captured nothing else really matters.
I’d rather be a female because I rather think with one head instead of two. The “penis” alters a guy’s judgment and therefore making them submissive. Males’ base their interest on visuals and what is on the surface. The outcome of having a penis (a sexual organ) as their “second brain” doesn’t really make them powerful now does it? Someone or something that is “powerful” tends to be untouchable or not easily accessible. If a guy walks outside and asked 10 girls to sleep with him, what would be the odds of him getting at least one? Whereas if a woman did that the outcome would probably be a lot greater. I’d say a woman has more pull, therefore possess more power.
In the movie eXistenz Allegra Geller was a top game creator of the world (a pretty powerful position to obtain) who was basically on the run because she would get assassinated if she did otherwise. A trainee Ted was assigned as her body guard and she was basically talking him into everything. She was the one who took him to get a pod and made him play her game. Since her game pod was damaged she used him along the way to play the game for her. There was a hot and steamy sex scene in the movie that shows the fatal attraction between the two. Allegra was a lot smarter than Ted who seemed to be conspicuously weary of every move they made. I feel as if Allegra used her sexual appeal and smarts to get to the task at hand.
In the independent film The Sleep Dealers, the main woman Luz Martinez welcomed a lonely Mexican Guy into the city, as he was in his search for nodes. He noticed that she had nodes on the bus ride into town and once she linked into the system she ended up finding him again. A symbolic representation of simple-mindedness in males was when Memo went to look for nodes on his own. He met a guy on the street that talked a good game as far as installing nodes for a cheap price, in the end he got mugged and beat up. By doing what sounded good on the surfaced caused him harm. By Luz finding him in the city the next day, she was the one that installed his nodes; the very reason he left Mexico and came to the city. She basically had the experience and power to do so. A love connection was also declared by her.
In all of these movies all the significant woman are much more powerful than the man they are parallel to. They are dominant in the role of mind play; they don’t need muscles, big guns, flashy cars, a penis and all the other exterior parts to show that they are powerful. Just like in the wild, a male peacock has the pretty feathers, because they need an exterior attraction for a female to even consider them. In woman, all power implements are internal; sexual organs, strengths, mentality and intellect, things you cannot see on the surface and are not hat easily accessible there for making us more powerful, than muscles, facial hair and more important(to a guy obviously) a penis. If you took away a guy’s penis, what would be left of him? Where would his power be? Trinity, Allegra Geller, and Luz Martinez serve as great models for powerful woman.