Saturday, December 13, 2014

Black Widow



Husbands should be like kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable." ~ Mrs. White, Clue

Watched Basic Instinct last night.

Why are bi's always portrayed as psychopathic killers in movies? The black widow - a maneater, the woman whose love interests keep on dying.

A black Widow is a cross between a con artist and a serial killer, a woman who seduces, and then murders men for their money, always using a different name and identity each time. She is highly successful.

Black widows' methods may vary, but poisoning is often favored: it doesn't demand superior strength or leave obvious marks, and it's traditional for wives to do the cooking for their husbands.

The name 'black widow' comes from the official FBI designation for this kind of killer and from the black widow spider, which is so named because of the occasional habit of female black widow spiders (particularly the Australian redback spiders and the southern black widows) to devour their mates after mating.

How about the 'gold digger' (this one prefers to kill her meal ticket instead of living with him). More on gold diggers on a later post.

I'm not a big Michael Douglas fan. Everyone raves about his performance in Basic Instinct but it's Sharon Stone who made this movie watchable.

What if Spiderman had married a black widow ...

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