The Three Stooges

The greatest Femme-beat men-Fest in media history begins with Christine McIntyre first making love to Shemp...

Then thoroughly thrashing him...

Finishing him off with a round-house right...

The Feminine Fury is fully embodied in an Amazonian Gold-Digging Vixen, played by Doris Colleen, who will stop at nothing to marry Shemp...

Moe comes to the defense of his buddy and pays in pain...

Larry gets caught in the cross-femmefire...

This hell-fire gal has no respect for the clergy...

She wrestles Shemp under control...

And then squeezes his head in a vise grip...

Demanding he submit to her...

A free-for-all breaks out, with The WOmen brutally over-matching the men...

Nancy Saunders clubbing Larry...

Where there has been some question as to whether The Stooges were truly funny, it is undeniable their Opposite Sex humor sprung from a deep-rooted Male Fear of WOmanhood. WOmen are often portrayed as Man's Worst Nightmare: Cold, Manipulative, Mean-Spirited Castrating Castigators who use man's desire for them to dominate and mercilessly abuse him. The foundation for many S&M role-playing sessions can be found in a number of Stooge shorts and in this one Doris Colleen nails the archetypical Bitch From Hell perfectly: Virago, Vixen, Shrew, Firebrand, She-Devil, Hell-Cat, you name it, she steps in and dominates on screen like few others, perhaps the best of all the Women Beating Stooges scenes. A Woman squeezing a man's head in a vice... the symbolism is worthy an essay...

Archetype(s): Dominatrix ;  Virago

Paraphilia(s): Biastophilia ; Emasculaphilia ; Gangaphilia ; Lesbophilia ; Sadistophilia ; Slapaphilia