Female empowerment or just another anxiety? A postscript on castration anxiety

castration anxiety (noun) : 1. a male’s conscious or subconscious fear of losing all or part of the sex organs, or the function of such; 2. one reason why females aren’t getting laid
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A little further research on this ailment brought out another Freudian term - vagina dentata, or teeth "down there". Apparently Freud used it only to depict his idea of castration anxiety (but it does raise the question of whether Freud hated all women or just his mother).

See: http://psychology.about.com/od/sigmundfreud/p/freud_women.htm

At least one filmmaker, saw vagina dentata as an expression of female empowerment, in probably one of the worst date movies ever, Teeth. The trailer alone had me cringing.

This means that if guys have castration anxiety, then women have (or should have) fear of being the castrators (either to our partners or - worse - to our sons).

Just when I thought I was clear on this one.