The little girl’s sadomasochistic martyr fantasies find a male mirror in the crucified Christ.

Evidence

In the humiliation of God, she admires Man’s fall: inert, passive, covered with sores, the crucified is the inverted image of the white and red martyr offered to wild beasts, to the knife, to males, and with whom the little girl has so often identified: she is thrown into confusion seeing that Man, Man-God, has assumed his role. It is she who is placed on the wood, promised the splendor of the Resurrection. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1914

Categorization

• XREF: Directly continues the reader’s thread on woman as Other — the Crucified is the Other made masculine, which destabilizes the gendered sacrifice role.