This week in lecture we discussed special friendships especially between nuns. When Professor discussed how one of the signs of special friendships was when two nuns could "end up hating each other with the same passion they love each other," I thought about my Varsity cheerleading squad in high school that I was a member of. There would always be cheerleaders bickering one second and being best friends the next, which seemed very similar to Professor's description of the nuns.
I most enjoyed when Professor talked about how one of the nuns, while she was performing what we assume to be some sort of sexual relation with another nun, wears a cross around her neck. We talked about how the cross being on the nun's body while she is performing such an act makes an even closer contradiction with her behavior and her expectation as a holy, virtuous person. I recently watched The Exorcist and this actually reminded me of one of the scenes from the movie. The little girl is possessed and the devil inside her makes her stab her vagina violently with a cross. This scene is similar to the scene with the cross around the nun's neck because it also creates a contradiction with a virtuous symbol of Christ and something we consider wrong. Here is a picture of The Exorcist scene:
Interesting. On the cross and its subversive usages there is also, of course, Madonna, the greatest of them all.
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