"male martyrs are almost always surrounded by nurses, their mothers, adoring angels and other loving disciples wrapping their crushed and holy bodies in strips of herb soaked cloth and weeping rapturously. female martyrs are almost always depicted having their skin flayed, breasts branded or ripped off with tongs or being stabbed and they are always, always alone save for her murderers. there is never anyone by their sides celebrating their spiritual life, only fiendishly reveling in their torture of her. it is perilous to be a "girl.""
martyrs (2008) // the passion of joan of arc (1928) .