Do We Only Want “Safe” Women On Screen? Thoughts on Jennifer’s Body, The Bride!, Promising Young Woman, Carrie, Titane and Female Rage I keep thinking about how much movies shape what we think “women” look and act like. Most mainstream films still give us the same narrow templates: the good girl, the grieving or caregiving wife, the pretty muse who inspires the man, the cool girlfriend who softens him. Those characters can be powerful, but they quietly suggest that “real” women process pain quietly, stay reasonable, and keep their anger contained. That’s why I’m drawn to films like Titane, Promising Young Woman, The Bride!, Jennifer’s Body, and Carrie. These movies center women whose emotions after harm don’t fit the “tragic sad victim” mold. Their protagonists are angry, contradictory, vengeful, selfdestructive, sometimes pathetic, sometimes terrifying. They don’t sit in tasteful grief. That’s not everyone’s experience, but it is some people’s. Someone I know who survived SA loved The Bride!…