So yesterday Cracked.com posted a video called the Scientific Reason you want to have sex with Jessica Rabbit.  It wasn’t the greatest cracked video, I do quite like what they do, but it was a subject near and dear to my heart.  And it kind of comes down to she was drawn that way.  It’s kind of why I am posting her.  I shared the link with my friend @whole-lies-and-half-smiles because she, like me, understands that Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is a very good movie, a great example of Film noir while also subverting a lot of the genre.  Now, there are indeed reasons that Jessica Rabbit fires the sexy centers of our brain even though in reality she would be horrifying (as proven by Heidi Klum this Halloween).  I also think the appeal is more than that, there are plenty of “sexy” cartoon characters and while I am sure they all have people who like them Jessica Rabbit has a ridiculous amount of staying power.  She was in one movie and a couple of shorts 25 years ago and yet is very popular.  Popular to the degree that it is very hard to find actual pictures of her instead of fan made porn.   I mean, make your porn but I also follow things like Supergirl tag and it’s not an issue there.  I think the Femme Fatale, as an archetype is something appealing and maybe under served in modern media but she also is a twist on that because she isn’t really the classic Femme Fatale.  See, the classic Femme Fatale is usually the wrong woman.  Her purpose is to lead the male lead into dangerous situations.  She is temptation given form and she is a bad idea.  Believe me, I know how attractive a bad idea can be, so I know why that has always resonated.  That is how Jessica Rabbit is portrayed in the movie but it’s a bait and switch.  She isn’t the wrong girl and she isn’t really leading Eddie down the wrong path.  She is actually helping him and she saves him.  She is actually the good girl, who usually serves as the counter to the Femme Fatale and the one point of light in Noir.  Which I think is why she appeals so much.  Yes, she is drawn to look bad and fire that part of our brain but it is a movie I think most people saw as kids, so she is safe, too, because she actually is the girl you bring home to mom.  She’s coded both ways.  She is the whore and the Madonna wrapped into one, which in the end means Jessica Rabbit lets you have your cake and eat it, too.  Sometimes I over think things like cartoons.  Today I want to fuck Jessica Rabbit.

Bob Hoskins died yesterday which is sad because death is always sad, at least a little bit.  But for me it was sad because I do consider Who Framed Roger Rabbit to be a great movie and one that holds a special place in my heart.  So I watched it again last night.  Still awesome.  I still find Jessica Rabbit to be both attractive and fascinating as a character.  I could get into all of that and how I love the dichotomy of being drawn bad but not being bad and so on.  Free will versus destiny, image versus reality and so on.  But I won’t, I will just say if you haven’t seen this moving in a long time you should rewatch it because it is genuinely good and adheres to the beats of a noir quite well.  And Jessica Rabbit is hot.  And today I want to fuck Jessica Rabbit.

I get interesting reactions when I post cartoon characters. Some people seem to love it.  Some people give me crap (I have gotten some ‘you need to get laid’ comments in response to posting fictional characters).  It all strikes me as silly because Jessica Rabbit or Jessica Chastain, my chances of bedding either redhead is realistically about the same.  Of course, Jessica Rabbit is unique anyway, I didn’t get crap when I posted her before.  I guess because she’s the exception, everyone gets being attracted to her?  It makes sense, she was designed to be a cartoonish embodiment of sex appeal.  Cartoons take things and exaggerate them past the point of reality but that can make them feel even more real.  Inaccuracies are forgiven and instead we focus on what the artist wants us to focus on.  Which means Jessica Rabbit possesses a level of sex appeal that goes beyond what a person should.  Or it could just be that the femme fatale archetype still works, even in cartoon form.  I am not sure, people like her.  I get it.  She’s a fascinating character in what is just an excellent movie.  I watched it last night.  Today I want to fuck Jessica Rabbit.

Just the other night I was talking about Who Framed Roger Rabbit and how brilliant it is with one of my favorite tumblr friends. The movie is great and one of the more interesting characters to me is Jessica Rabbit.  I say this because she has continued on as sort of short hand for a type of sexuality.  Hell, looking for pictures of her you have no idea how hard it is to actually find pictures of her where she has clothes, which strikes me as all kind of silly.  Not because I think there is anything wrong with wanting to see whoever naked, embrace that, look at naked things, but it seems kind of pointless.  It transfers sultry and sexy to something far less complicated and interesting.  All of it kind of seems to miss the point of the character though, who in my searching seems to have developed a reputation as a slut or a temptress which ignores what made her character so great at the time.  She was a spin on the classic Femme Fetale, she certainly had all the elements and looked like bad news but in the end she wasn’t.  She was a good girl, she was loyal to her husband, she loved him, and she was doing what she could to save the day.  She was never bad.  She was just drawn that way.  I find the fact that that has been lost and we only remember how she was drawn to be an interesting statement on how our minds work. She’s a cartoon, so of course things will always be exaggerated so we project our own experiences onto her, that’s how cartoons work anyway, you fill in a lot of the gaps. It is interesting just how we’ve filled them in.  Of course, good girl and working on the side of angels or not she has appeared here today, so I am just as guilty.  I can’t help the way she’s drawn, either.  Today I want to fuck Jessica Rabbit.