The classic haunted house trope where the family sinks all their money into a house and father gets slowly possessed by a demon is meant to evoke the fear of financial troubles causing your partner to become abusive.
The Xenomorphs in Alien are meant to evoke the fear of rape and child birth.
Unsuspecting woman alone in a vulnerable situation attacked by a vicious creature— I can see why they thought the penis angle fit better.
Accessible internet probably took the wind out of their sails. Media has become less porny over time, and the younger generations have even expressed an aversion to it.
Well, you're right about the Latin meaning of vagina. How does that illustrate the existence of analogies between sex and aggression?
Relatedly, the slang (or 'real') word for penis is/was weapon in old English.
So? Sharing an extremely general trait with many things including swords isn't an analogy to swords. Is wine analogized to aggression because guns have barrels?
Besides scabbards, the other prominent use of vagina in Latin was to refer to the husk of grain. Do you conclude that an analogy is being drawn between sex and nourishment? Sex and worthlessness?
Wouldn't that conflict with the idea that the use of the word vagina is an analogy to aggression? How can the same fact be evidence both for and against that idea?
> Relatedly, the slang (or 'real') word for penis is/was weapon in old English.
Why do you think this is related?
Some might point and say sexism, but I think it's consistent with established tropes. There are piles of analogies between sex and aggression (the Latin word for “sheath” is vagina). An image of a penis-like shark attacking a nude woman is another to throw on the pile.