seductress

Like the nasty seductress of “Dangerous Liaisons,” she’s a warning that frustrated women aren’t merely a hazard to themselves — they’re a menace to the society that made them.

Dakota Johnson is my favorite seductress, a femme fatale of a flavor that didn’t exist until she invented it.

Holding an ax, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.

Holding an axe, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.

And that was one of the things that we kind of came up with — “the light switch” is what we called it, of Teri the therapist and Teri the seductress.