{"id":12760,"date":"2012-12-04T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/?p=12760"},"modified":"2013-11-04T12:10:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:10:53","slug":"guest-post-on-american-horror-story-part-22-the-terrors-of-reproduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2012\/12\/04\/guest-post-on-american-horror-story-part-22-the-terrors-of-reproduction\/","title":{"rendered":"[Guest
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Reproduction"},"content":{"rendered":"
<ul>
  \n
  <li>
    <em
      >Here&#8217;s Libby of the wonderful <a
      href=\"http:\/\/treasuryislands.wordpress.com\/\"
      target=\"_blank\">TreasuryIslands<\/a> blog again with Part 2 of her post
      on
      <strong
        >American Horror Story<\/strong>. If you have a guest post a-brewing, <a
        href=\"mailto:badrepeditors@gmail.com?subject=pitch\">email us on
        badrepeditors@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
        <p>
          In <a
          href=\"http:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2012\/12\/03\/guest-post-on-american-horror-story-part-12-lovers-and-mothers\/\"
          target=\"_blank\">my previous post yesterday<\/a>, I talked about the
          first season of
          <strong
            >American Horror Story<\/strong> and its reliance on two female
            archetypes &#8211; the femme fatale and the overbearing mother
            &#8211; in its construction of the monstrous.<\/p>\n
            <p>
              <strong
                >The spoiler warning, again, goes here!<br \ />\n<\/strong><br
                  \
                />\nToday, I\u2019m going to talk about reproduction, so if you
                want to sing <a
                href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wSBCWKuSR9Q\"
                target=\"_blank\">that song from
                <strong
                  >Grease 2<\/strong><\/a>, you better get it out of your system
                  now. Ready?<\/p>\n
                  <p>
                    Mothers are, in the world of
                    <strong
                      >AHS<\/strong>, a danger not only to their children, but
                      also to the others that touch their lives. Pregnancy, with
                      its easy symbolism and suitably melodramatic and gory end
                      bit, lends itself to Horror. But it is not just the
                      obvious that is made an object of fear.<\/p>\n
                      <h3>
                        Vivien, the walking womb-ded<\/h3>\n
                        <p>
                          As I said in part one, Vivien and Ben are a married
                          couple facing difficulties. She\u2019s had a
                          miscarriage, he\u2019s had an affair, and their
                          relationship is in tatters. I think, I
                          <em
                            >think<\/em>, that we\u2019re meant to be engaged
                            with this crumbling marriage.<\/p>\n
                            <p>
                              <a
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                              data-attachment-id=\"12799\"
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                              src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AHSpic04.jpg?resize=346%2C426\"
                              alt=\"Poster for American Horror Story showing the
                              cast standing in an eerie living room\"
                              width=\"346\" height=\"426\"
                              srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AHSpic04.jpg?w=617&amp;ssl=1
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                              243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\"
                              data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>But while Ben is a
                              rounded character &#8211; full of hope and regret,
                              sweetness and cruelty, passion and inertia &#8211;
                              his wife is driven only by her desire to save her
                              marriage, which in turn is driven by her maternal
                              desire.<\/p>\n
                            </p>
                            <p>
                              Like Nora, the basement abortionist&#8217;s wife,
                              Hayden (Ben\u2019s deeply sexual and manipulative
                              mistress), and Constance, the terminally abusive
                              and neglectful mother next door, Vivien simply
                              <em
                                >has uterus, will procreate<\/em>.<sup
                                  ><a href=\"#footnote_0_12760\"
                                  id=\"identifier_0_12760\"
                                  class=\"footnote-link
                                  footnote-identifier-link\" title=\" In a
                                  worrying conflation of hetero femininity and
                                  queer masculinity, one half of the gay couple
                                  who also haunt the house is also constantly
                                  yapping about having a child.
                                  \">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n
                                  <p>
                                    Vivien is little more than a vessel, a womb
                                    with bouncy hair. She is Shroedinger&#8217;s
                                    Uterus, forever pregnant or not pregnant,
                                    host to a foetus that is alive or not alive,
                                    evil or not evil depending on the
                                    requirements of the plot in any given
                                    episode. Viven\u2019s role as incubator is
                                    underlined when she dies in childbirth
                                    &#8211; her role is complete, so we need
                                    nothing more from her.<\/p>\n
                                  </p>
                                  <p>
                                    Vivien\u2019s pregnancy is unusual. Hers is
                                    a product of <a
                                    href=\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superfecundation\"
                                    target=\"_blank\">heteropaternal
                                    superfecundation<\/a> &#8211; she\u2019s
                                    carrying twins with different fathers. One
                                    is her husband&#8217;s, the other is the
                                    result of her rape by a psychopathic
                                    ghost.<sup
                                      ><a href=\"#footnote_1_12760\"
                                      id=\"identifier_1_12760\"
                                      class=\"footnote-link
                                      footnote-identifier-link\" title=\" Who,
                                      by the way, IS WEARING A LATEX FETISH SUIT
                                      because that isn&rsquo;t sex negative,
                                      kink-shaming douchery AT ALL.
                                      \">2<\/a><\/sup> Let\u2019s not even go
                                      into the fact that her husband
                                      doesn\u2019t believe she\u2019s been raped
                                      &#8211; there\u2019s something much worse
                                      than that on the horizon.The show\u2019s
                                      mythology tells us that a child born of a
                                      ghost and a human will be the antichrist,
                                      and we all know what that means:
                                      apocalypse.<\/p>\n
                                      <p>
                                        Just in case the implication of that
                                        isn\u2019t clear, let me put it in
                                        slightly different terms: Vivien\u2019s
                                        vagina is the muggletuppin\u2019
                                        Hellmouth.<\/p>\n
                                      </p>
                                      <h3>
                                        Here\u2019s where we get into the really
                                        juicy feminist theory<\/h3>\n
                                        <p>
                                          Much of what I\u2019ve said so far
                                          owes a debt to Barbara Creed\u2019s
                                          theory of the monstrous-feminine, and
                                          in particular the abject body; the
                                          demonisation, defilement and
                                          objectification of the female body in
                                          Horror.<\/p>\n
                                        </p>
                                        <p>
                                          <a
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                                          data-attachment-id=\"12818\"
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                                          src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AHSpic02.jpg?resize=427%2C269\"
                                          alt=\"Gory birth scene - screenshot
                                          form American Horror Story\"
                                          width=\"427\" height=\"269\"
                                          srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/AHSpic02.jpg?w=610&amp;ssl=1
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                                          300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px)
                                          100vw, 427px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"
                                          \/><\/a>Vivien\u2019s labour and
                                          delivery is presented as particularly
                                          sanguinary; a festival of blood and
                                          sweat. It\u2019s a burlesque of the
                                          natural; a grotesque, pantomimic
                                          affair attended entirely by a gorily
                                          deceased medical staff provided by the
                                          house.<\/p>\n
                                        </p>
                                        <p>
                                          With neither the clinical intervention
                                          of the modern birthing experience nor
                                          the cleanliness of the body innocent,
                                          the birth plays on both classically
                                          Freudian and modern germophobic fears.
                                          It is, from both perspectives,
                                          unclean.<\/p>\n
                                        </p>
                                        <p>
                                          The point of Horror, if there must be
                                          one, is to walk the line between
                                          desirable and undesirable; to cross or
                                          threaten the boundaries that separate
                                          stability and chaos. Childbirth, as a
                                          triumph of the primal over the
                                          civilised and the inner over the
                                          outer, is a natural exemplar of this.
                                          It\u2019s naturally yukky and
                                          generally unstoppable, and that makes
                                          it pretty frightening. Here we\u2019re
                                          treated to close ups of Vivien\u2019s
                                          sweat covered forehead, wide overhead
                                          shots that emphasise the
                                          claustrophobic urgency of the scene,
                                          and heavy blood-loss.<\/p>\n
                                        </p>
                                        <blockquote>
                                          <p>
                                            Horror films that depict monstrous
                                            births play on the inside\/outside
                                            distinction in order to point to the
                                            inherently monstrous nature of the
                                            womb as well as the impossibility of
                                            ever completely banishing the abject
                                            from the human domain. [&#8230;] The
                                            womb represents the utmost in
                                            abjection for it contains a new life
                                            form which will pass from inside to
                                            outside bringing with it traces of
                                            contamination &#8211; blood,
                                            afterbirth, faeces.<\/p>\n
                                          </p>
                                          <p>
                                            &#8211; Barbara Creed, <a
                                            href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Monstrous-Feminine-Feminism-Psychoanalysis-Popular-Fictions\/dp\/0415052599\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1353272225&amp;sr=1-1\"
                                            target=\"_blank\"><strong
                                              >The Monstrous Feminine: Film,
                                              Feminism,
                                              Psychoanalysis<\/strong><\/a>
                                              (1993)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
                                              <p>
                                                Childbirth places us on the side
                                                of nature, outside of
                                                patriarchal order. Flesh is
                                                torn, blood is spilled, the
                                                sexual organs begin to resemble
                                                a wound. The imagery is graphic,
                                                base: abject. Vivien\u2019s
                                                affinity with uncivilised, feral
                                                nature invoked, her threat to
                                                patriarchal law is cemented. The
                                                birth of Vivien\u2019s twins is
                                                a threat fulfilled, a boundary
                                                crossed. From the abject comes
                                                the ruin of the world.<\/p>\n
                                              </p>
                                              <p>
                                                Vivien is threatened not just by
                                                the hell-spawn she\u2019s
                                                carrying, but also by three of
                                                the ghosts that share her home.
                                                Nora and Hayden, who have lost
                                                their own children, and Chad,
                                                who has never had children, each
                                                desire ownership of
                                                Vivien\u2019s child and conspire
                                                to steal the baby once it is
                                                born.<\/p>\n
                                              </p>
                                              <p>
                                                Baby-snatching is a common, well
                                                rooted trope in fantasy and
                                                horror, which usually points to
                                                the degeneracy of a group or
                                                being &#8211; a sign that
                                                they\u2019re beyond redemption,
                                                truly inhuman. Infants are
                                                stolen for ingestion (as in <a
                                                href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Torchwood:_Children_of_Earth\"
                                                target=\"_blank\"><strong
                                                  >Torchwood: Children of
                                                  Earth<\/strong><\/a>), as
                                                  revenge (like the Pied Piper
                                                  of Hamlyn) or a sacrificial
                                                  offering (the <a
                                                  href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyguide.com\/episodes\/bandcandy.shtml\"
                                                  target=\"_blank\">Buffy
                                                  episode
                                                  <strong
                                                    >Band Candy<\/strong><\/a>)
                                                    and occasionally, though
                                                    rarely, to be raised as the
                                                    kidnapper&#8217;s own. It is
                                                    this which motivates the
                                                    childless ghosts of
                                                    <strong
                                                      >AHS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
                                                      <p>
                                                        Each conspirator
                                                        represents a different
                                                        level of threat.
                                                        Deceased interior
                                                        designer Chad,
                                                        constantly arguing with
                                                        his (also dead) partner
                                                        Patrick, is no threat at
                                                        all. More concerned as
                                                        he is with decorating
                                                        than mending his broken
                                                        relationship, he seems
                                                        to think the baby will
                                                        simply be handed to him.
                                                        Nora, left to her own
                                                        devices, is an unlikely
                                                        threat &#8211;
                                                        she\u2019s narcissistic
                                                        enough but ethereal and
                                                        clueless.<\/p>\n
                                                      </p>
                                                      <p>
                                                        But with Hayden, the
                                                        picture is quite
                                                        different. Hayden is
                                                        wicked, determined and
                                                        operating without fear
                                                        of consequence &#8211;
                                                        she\u2019s dead, after
                                                        all &#8211; and
                                                        that\u2019s precisely
                                                        why she\u2019s so
                                                        dangerous.<\/p>\n
                                                      </p>
                                                      <blockquote>
                                                        <p>
                                                          The feminine is only
                                                          established, however,
                                                          if the wish for a
                                                          penis is replaced by
                                                          one for a baby.<\/p>\n
                                                        </p>
                                                        <p>
                                                          &#8211; Freud,
                                                          \u201cFemininity\u201d,
                                                          <strong
                                                            >New Introductory
                                                            Lectures in
                                                            Psycho-Analysis<\/strong>
                                                            (1933)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
                                                            <p>
                                                              The problem here
                                                              is one of
                                                              motivation. Now,
                                                              I\u2019m not
                                                              saying
                                                              there\u2019s
                                                              something wrong
                                                              with wanting
                                                              children. But
                                                              there\u2019s
                                                              something wrong
                                                              with wanting
                                                              children to the
                                                              exclusion of
                                                              everything else.
                                                              Hayden is a
                                                              formidable woman
                                                              brimming with
                                                              agency and
                                                              audacity, and, in
                                                              a stunning display
                                                              of the roles women
                                                              play in our
                                                              diverse society,
                                                              she\u2019s
                                                              pregnant
                                                              too.<\/p>\n
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p>
                                                              When she dies,
                                                              she\u2019s
                                                              contributing all
                                                              her energy to
                                                              winning Ben back,
                                                              and then, bam! One
                                                              blunt-force trauma
                                                              later, her whole
                                                              reason for being
                                                              has changed. Now,
                                                              I get that dying
                                                              is the sort of
                                                              thing that might
                                                              emotionally scar a
                                                              person, but COME
                                                              ON. The child in
                                                              her belly,
                                                              previously
                                                              presented only as
                                                              a tool of
                                                              emotional
                                                              blackmail, will
                                                              never appear, so
                                                              she\u2019s
                                                              obsessed with
                                                              replacing
                                                              it.<\/p>\n
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p>
                                                              And that\u2019s
                                                              the key to
                                                              understanding both
                                                              Hayden and Nora.
                                                              They both want to
                                                              replace children
                                                              they\u2019ve lost.
                                                              It is a
                                                              narcissistic
                                                              craving; a desire
                                                              merely to possess.
                                                              The possibility of
                                                              motherhood has
                                                              stripped them of
                                                              rationality, maybe
                                                              even sanity, and
                                                              turned them into
                                                              objects of dread.
                                                              Here motherhood
                                                              truly is \u2018the
                                                              most powerful
                                                              feminine
                                                              wish\u2019 (Freud
                                                              again, in 1933),
                                                              and it is
                                                              dangerous.<\/p>\n
                                                            </p>
                                                            <p>
                                                              In the eyes of
                                                              <strong
                                                                >AHS<\/strong>,
                                                                women are to be
                                                                feared. Female
                                                                sexuality is
                                                                aberrant if not
                                                                abhorrent, and
                                                                represented by
                                                                crude Freudian
                                                                symbolism (if
                                                                you aren\u2019t
                                                                yet convinced,
                                                                check out the
                                                                suckling infant
                                                                literally
                                                                devouring his
                                                                mother\u2019s
                                                                breast).<\/p>\n
                                                                <p>
                                                                  I\u2019m with
                                                                  Simone de
                                                                  Beauvoir when
                                                                  it comes to
                                                                  Freud, but not
                                                                  so Messrs.
                                                                  Murphy and
                                                                  Falchuck;
                                                                  it\u2019s like
                                                                  they\u2019ve
                                                                  tried to
                                                                  dramatise
                                                                  <strong
                                                                    >Introduction
                                                                    to
                                                                    Psychoanalysis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
                                                                    <p>
                                                                      The second
                                                                      season of
                                                                      <strong
                                                                        >American
                                                                        Horror
                                                                        Story<\/strong>
                                                                        recently
                                                                        began
                                                                        its run
                                                                        on UK
                                                                        television
                                                                        (<a
                                                                        href=\"http:\/\/www.fxuk.com\/shows\/american-horror-story-asylum\/about\"
                                                                        target=\"_blank\">on
                                                                        FX, new
                                                                        episodes
                                                                        Tuesday
                                                                        evening<\/a>).
                                                                        So far
                                                                        it&#8217;s
                                                                        really
                                                                        pushing
                                                                        the boat
                                                                        out to
                                                                        hate
                                                                        women in
                                                                        a
                                                                        variety
                                                                        of new
                                                                        and
                                                                        exciting
                                                                        ways
                                                                        under
                                                                        the
                                                                        guise of
                                                                        a
                                                                        critical
                                                                        look at
                                                                        the
                                                                        pathologising
                                                                        of
                                                                        sexuality
                                                                        and
                                                                        historic
                                                                        attitudes
                                                                        to poor
                                                                        mental
                                                                        health.<\/p>\n
                                                                        <p>
                                                                          It\u2019s
                                                                          terrible.
                                                                          You\u2019re
                                                                          going
                                                                          to
                                                                          love
                                                                          it.<\/p>\n
                                                                        </p>
                                                                        <ul>
                                                                          \n
                                                                          <li>
                                                                            <em
                                                                              ><strong
                                                                                >Libby<\/strong>
                                                                                earned
                                                                                her
                                                                                feminist
                                                                                stripes
                                                                                interning
                                                                                for
                                                                                the
                                                                                <a
                                                                                href=\"http:\/\/www.fawcettsociety.org.uk\/\"
                                                                                target=\"_blank\">Fawcett
                                                                                Society<\/a>
                                                                                where
                                                                                she
                                                                                was
                                                                                horrified
                                                                                by
                                                                                most
                                                                                of
                                                                                the
                                                                                stories
                                                                                she
                                                                                heard.
                                                                                An
                                                                                accidental
                                                                                activist,
                                                                                she
                                                                                is
                                                                                a
                                                                                regular
                                                                                contributor
                                                                                to
                                                                                <a
                                                                                href=\"http:\/\/bicommunitynews.co.uk\/\"
                                                                                target=\"_blank\"><strong
                                                                                  >BCN<\/strong><\/a>,
                                                                                  the
                                                                                  UK\u2019s
                                                                                  only
                                                                                  100%
                                                                                  bisexual
                                                                                  publication.
                                                                                  Her
                                                                                  latest
                                                                                  project,
                                                                                  <a
                                                                                  href=\"http:\/\/treasuryislands.wordpress.com\/\"
                                                                                  target=\"_blank\"><strong
                                                                                    >TreasuryIslands<\/strong><\/a>,
                                                                                    is
                                                                                    the
                                                                                    home
                                                                                    of
                                                                                    her
                                                                                    other
                                                                                    passion
                                                                                    \u2013
                                                                                    children\u2019s
                                                                                    literature.
                                                                                    Libby
                                                                                    is
                                                                                    very
                                                                                    proud
                                                                                    of
                                                                                    her
                                                                                    bad
                                                                                    reputation.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol
                                                                                    class=\"footnotes\"><li
                                                                                    id=\"footnote_0_12760\"
                                                                                    class=\"footnote\">
                                                                                    In
                                                                                    a
                                                                                    worrying
                                                                                    conflation
                                                                                    of
                                                                                    hetero
                                                                                    femininity
                                                                                    and
                                                                                    queer
                                                                                    masculinity,
                                                                                    one
                                                                                    half
                                                                                    of
                                                                                    the
                                                                                    gay
                                                                                    couple
                                                                                    who
                                                                                    also
                                                                                    haunt
                                                                                    the
                                                                                    house
                                                                                    is
                                                                                    also
                                                                                    constantly
                                                                                    yapping
                                                                                    about
                                                                                    having
                                                                                    a
                                                                                    child.
                                                                                    [<a
                                                                                    href=\"#identifier_0_12760\"
                                                                                    class=\"footnote-link
                                                                                    footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/li><li
                                                                                    id=\"footnote_1_12760\"
                                                                                    class=\"footnote\">
                                                                                    Who,
                                                                                    by
                                                                                    the
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                                                                                    isn\u2019t
                                                                                    sex
                                                                                    negative,
                                                                                    kink-shaming
                                                                                    douchery
                                                                                    AT
                                                                                    ALL.
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                                                                                                            In
                                                                                                            yesterday&#8217;s
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                                                                                                            talked
                                                                                                            about
                                                                                                            the
                                                                                                            first
                                                                                                            season
                                                                                                            of
                                                                                                            American
                                                                                                            Horror
                                                                                                            Story
                                                                                                            and
                                                                                                            its
                                                                                                            reliance
                                                                                                            on
                                                                                                            femme
                                                                                                            fatales
                                                                                                            and
                                                                                                            overbearing
                                                                                                            mothers.
                                                                                                            Today,
                                                                                                            I\u2019m
                                                                                                            going
                                                                                                            to
                                                                                                            talk
                                                                                                            about
                                                                                                            reproduction,
                                                                                                            so
                                                                                                            if
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                                                                                                            want
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                                                                                                            sing
                                                                                                            that
                                                                                                            song
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                                                                                                            2
                                                                                                            you
                                                                                                            better
                                                                                                            get
                                                                                                            it
                                                                                                            out
                                                                                                            of
                                                                                                            your
                                                                                                            system
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