WHAT DRAWS US TO THE FEMME FATALE?

Take the Dragon Lady

 

Oops!

Wrong One.

But if you knew of her struggles in

the small Slovenian railroad town of Sevnica,

you might feel compassion. 

The Right Dragon Lady

In our modern society the strong-willed woman has become desirable,

 

But our culture's insistence on continuing

to depict her

as a death trap

definitely shows

it remains a conflicted desire.

Femme Fatales are often the Crossroads

where the hero

learns there is more to women

and to life

than the surface.

But having stepped off the precipice into maturity,

 he can never be the same person again.

Femme Fatales have become

relevant again

after being thought tropes of the past.

Fed by digital technology and the Internet ,

 millennials

desire immediate gratification,

 jumping into adulthood quickly

without always considering

the consequences of their actions.

Used creatively,

the Femme Fatale

can be used to

investigate

what it means to be

a whole woman,

a whole man.

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As a child, I wanted Flash Gordon to choose

Princess Aura

for the obvious reason.

As an author I had Samuel McCord

choose Meilori Shinseen

and found my novels took on

a depth and a fire

they might not have

with a traditional heroine.

Have you used Femme Fatales

or Bad Boys

in your novels?

And why?

Let me know, will you?