“[She is] the living corpse who puts up with embraces but does not return them, who carries out the divine act with the indifference one brings to a chore. She remained the one who paralyses the flesh and chills the heart.”32 Cryle and Moore highlight that her male suitor identifies “the inhuman temperament that lies at the heart of feminism: frigidity is diagnosed as a stubborn refusal of normal, male-centered sexuality.”33 Stories like this would help to fuel the social attitudes that would allow terms like “frigid bitch” to become commonly used as insults against people socialized as women
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