Who is the wolf, hunting the red coated girl? The beast who prowls the forest in search of innocence, hunting down the scent of virginity is man. The rosy cheeked girl wondering around in the woods with her basket containing the single defensive tool she had, is woman. The world that we live in is ran by wolves, and we must navigate it to our best abilities to come out on top.
All that all we have over the wolves, is our innocence. If we allow them to take our identities passive-aggressively, we will never be able to break through Granny’s front door alive. The innocence is not the sole objection of men. He seeks to put you in a bind, tying down any limb that may want to break away and seed into a new human being. Taking away your virtue, ability to change whenever you choose, and your overall sense of independence limits a woman when trying to reach her fullest potential.
Although I’m a married woman, who loves everything about her husband, my spouse is not a wolf, not all men are. But the only wolves that actually get the chance to feed their unquenchable thirsts are deceiving, charming, and smart. Of course, they’re only as smart as YOU think they are. The red wearing girl in Angela Lansbury’s story “In the Company of Wolves”, was taught exactly what to do when the wolf has tricked you.
Although she made the fatal mistake of allowing the wolf’s personality to influence her, and gave him the only thing that she could have used to defend herself. But when it came down to eat or be eaten, she trick the wolf at his own game. Red realized that when she became calm, and used her sexuality to rule over the wolf, she could continue to live.
It begs the question of how far is too far concerning the use of our feminine sexuality on wolves? We can either harness our powers, or exploit them. By strategically using our powers over the wolves we can control them, bending them just enough that they don’t know that we actually have the upper hand.
Before the girl in the story willingly gave her basket to the wolf, she was not afraid or anything. Without her knife to keep her safe, she had no defenses against the wolf. When we keep our innocence, we keep our knives and are able to defend ourselves against the wolf’s advances. Without a defense, we become much to compliant to the wolves in the woods. Although it may seem that without a defense life is over, but if we can contain our fear and not let the wolf believe that he has power over us, we can use his own game to survive and succeed.
