Random Friend texting me: "What's on your mind?"
Me: "Female deer can't usually grow antlers so the Antler Queen, clearly female but wearing a crown of horns, represents the genderfluidity of nature but also the switching of gender dynamics that the girls have undergone since they're no longer a gaggle of helpless suburban girls but a savage pack. Hunting is typically seen as a masculine task but turning raw flesh into a meal is cooking aka women's work. The girls have emphasized their consumption of meat, a typically masculine food, but not as a show of power or ego. Consuming meat is about finding nourishment in a brutal act, perpetuating life with another death. Deer are seen as noble majestic animals but are also frequent prey. Unlike rabbits-- characterized as expendable and weak-- deer are more respectable, so they get the 'honor' of having their skulls/antlers memorialized as decoration. Most men hang up antlers as a way of saying 'look how we conquered nature' but the girls wear the antlers to say, 'look how the wilderness allowed us to survive under its gaze.'"
Random Friend: "...I'm revoking your Paramount+ privileges."
