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Poison Is a Woman's Weapon?

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Unladylike Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It's a Halloween treat from the Unladies Room Patreon! Cristen gets to the bottom of the lady-poisoner trope, where it came from and how true it really is. Highlights include Lucrezia Borgia, prunes stewed in rat poison, Agatha Christie's pre-murder mystery career, misogynist criminal science and one fatal cheesecake.  For more ad-free bonus episodes, join the Unladies' Room Patreon Follow Unladylike on Instagram and TikTok Shop merch Advertise with Multitude Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What was the scariest thing that a woman who at that time was considered obviously a very inferior being to men?

0:10.0

What was the most terrifying thing she could be? She could either be a witch or she could be a poisoner or she could be a witch who poisons and in that case

0:20.1

Who put her on a broom and send her into space because she's going to wreak some havoc. on Lady Like

0:35.0

Life.

0:36.0

Like.

0:38.0

A lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like

0:44.0

a lady like.

0:47.0

I've had a love.

0:49.0

Hello and ladies, patrons, I have had Belbiv Devoe in my head all week. Thanks to this Patreon episode.

1:01.2

That girl is poison.

1:08.7

We are talking about the trope of poison as a woman's weapon.

1:16.8

And yes, I am intentionally timing this

1:20.9

because Halloween is right around the corner, and what do we love to talk about around

1:26.0

Halloween, death, of course, death and villains and murder, and what more and even though off the top of my head I'm not thinking of a ton of horror movies that are really poison-centric

1:47.8

although I did just watch Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix.

1:54.4

That was Mabinge last weekend, which I will say all I saw at first

2:00.6

was the title.

2:02.0

And my initial worry was oh God this is like an

2:06.7

exposay docu series on R&B Superstar Usher I was like don't tell me the bad news about Usher, but no, this is an adaptation of the

2:17.6

Edgar Allan Poe short story Fall of the House of Usher. And while it is not about women poisoning people per se,

2:27.6

it is centered around a very villainous woman and a pharmaceutical that is very much poisonous both on the

2:39.0

neurochemical level and on the metaphysical level.

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