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  • Rain 1932 — A review of Sadie Thompson

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    B. Lorenzo Buckinchere

    Sep 28, 2025

    It is the end of the month and time once again for our monthly review series. Our muse for the month of September is none other than Miss Sadie Thompson. But first, here’s a disclaimer.

    Disclaimer:

    The following review contains spoilers, so I strongly recommend watching any film that features the character of Sadie Thompson before reading this or any review relating to this muse. Now without further ado, let’s begin.

    Introduction:

    Sadie Thompson is a fictional character appearing in several films, plays and prose between the 1920s and the 1950s. Her first appearance was in a 1921 short story titled, “Rain,” by W. Somerset Maugham, part of his collection titled, “The Tremling of a Leaf.”

    In film, her most notable portrayals were by Gloria Swanson as the titular Sadie Thompson in a 1928 silent picture directed by Raoul Walsh. And by Joan Crawford in “Rain,” a 1932 talking picture directed by Lewis Milestone, and the one that I will be reviewing today.

    Plot:

    Sadie Thompson is a young woman who is stranded on the Pacific island of Pago Pago. Outgoing by nature, Sadie enjoys drinking, smoking and partying with some of the young sailors she meets during her stay at an inn on the island. Much to the dismay of Alfred Davidson (Walter Huston), a brooding old missionary and religious zealot who complains that she is disturbing him and his wife.

    Her sassy demeanor soon catches the eye of one of the sailors at the inn, one Sergeant O’Hara (William Gargan). As Sadie starts falling for O’Hara, Davidson starts digging into Sadie’s past and learns that she is a prostitute. He also discovers that she is wanted by the police in San Francisco.

    Meanwhile, Sadie’s new boyfriend, O’Hara, whom she affectionately calls “handsome” throughout the picture, tells her about a friend of his who fell in love with a prostitute. They are now happily married and living in Australia. O’Hara wants to take Sadie away with him to Australia so she doesn’t have to answer for her previous crimes in San Francisco.

    But just as he is making plans for them to join his friend, Davidson starts working on Sadie’s psyche. First he threatens to use his influence with the governor on that island to make certain that Sadie is sent back to San Francisco. Then he uses guilt and shame to convince her to seek repentance for her promiscuous ways.

    As Davidson’s manipulation takes root and he continues to break down Sadie’s will, he finds it easier to convince her that the only way to truly repent is to willfully go back to San Francisco and face the punishment for her past crimes. She agrees and O’Hara notices that she is not being herself and tries to snap her out of it, but she pushes him away and insists that she needs to be “saved.”

    Brainwashed and isolated from her friends, Davidson has free reign over Sadie’s mind and dictates her every action right down to the way that she dresses. With a newfound obsession with purity, Sadie soon begins to dress more modestly and without make-up.

    Eventually she agrees to return to San Francisco and Davidson admires her as a “beautiful creature of god.” However, in the next split second, he loses control and breaks into her room where he rapes her.

    The natives find Davidson’s body washed ashore the following morning. Suicide or murder? Who knows. Any scenario is possible. Devastated, Sadie reverts back to her old self again and leaves for Australia along with O’Hara to begin their lives anew.

    Key Takeaway:

    Davidson tried to brainwash Sadie into becoming someone she is not. While all along, he was secretly lusting after her despite being a married man, and lost control in the end. It is ironic that his losing control made Sadie revert back to her true self.

    O’Hara loved and accepted Sadie as she was. She didn’t have to change her character, perhaps only her profession after they had gotten married. It just goes to show you that anybody who is trying to make you change does not love you, they only want to control you.

    Another red flag that let’s me know Davidson was working her nerves was when he said that god wouldn’t forgive her unless she went back and faced the penalty for her past mistakes. Assuming god was benevolent, it wouldn’t want you to suffer for your past mistakes.

    The point would’ve been to correct you and not to humiliate you, especially if it was a “victimless crime” that you committed out of lack and fear. There are those who are intentionally wicked who actually get rewarded in this world while those trying to do the right thing must suffer for the ego of the wicked. Religious hypocrisy at its finest.

    And who is Davidson to lead anybody to salvation when he cannot even control himself? But the first red flag of all was when he led with threats in the first place. The heat check is the oldest trick in the book.

    If they heat check you and you let it slide, that’s how they know they’ve got you. I give this cautionary tale on overzealous religious sadism and the malignant mentor a four out of five jazz listening tramps, and I’ll see you on the next one.

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  • Why so much incel shame?

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    B. Lorenzo Buckinchere

    Sep 21, 2025

    Incels are heroes. Yet they ironically don’t seem to get enough respect. Instead, all they tend to receive is shame and mockery at the hands of the very people they protect. In this article, I will explain why that is, and what can be done about it.

    First of all, what is an incel? Short for involuntary celibacy, an incel is a man who is unable to get laid, or otherwise date by traditional or conventional means. Society, including women tend to shame and bully incels due to their social ineptitude, as well as their inability to live a normal life.

    The stereotype of an incel is a middle-aged, balding, Pakistani janitor, or some pasty White boy who wears a tinfoil hat and lives in his mother’s basement. But those are just stupid, annoying and offensive tropes. Any age or race of man can be an incel.

    Now I did start off by saying that incels are heroes. Let me tell you why that is. Sexual gratification is the most important thing to a man. More important than food. Sexual pressure can be compared to sleep pressure, in that the longer you go without it, the more intense it becomes. And when a man is being sexually repressed, his mind will go to some very dark places.

    Any man who is burning with rage and sexual frustration can easily choose to rape women. So if a man is an incel, he is choosing to respect a woman’s consent more than he respects his own selfish desires.

    That is most commendable, considering that there are men who get laid regularly who still choose to rape women for the sake of power. I am not saying that incels deserve a Purple Heart for doing what they are supposed to be doing anyway. But you also don’t have to mock them for it. Then the same stupid normies who delight in provoking incels end up playing the victim when the incel finally snaps.

    Another way that incels cope with loneliness and frustration is to seek the services of a prostitute. Which is a problem because as I had discussed in the last two to three articles, normies do not like sex work. Why do you think that is?

    Sex work supports male sexual autonomy and restores male sexual dignity. Not only for incels, but also for the willfully single or the intentional bachelor. Especially men who do not wish to go through the headache of modern dating. Foodie calls are a thing.

    Furthermore, no normie would ever give it away for free, nor would she ever sell it so cheap and easy, because they love to leverage it in exchange for POWER and favors.

    Normies vastly outnumber the eccentrics and so they define the status quo. The normie status quo often involves hierarchies, pecking orders, and subtle forms of tyranny disguised either as friendship or co-worker camaraderie. They pick their leader by natural selection, often implying, “it’s a normie thing, you wouldn’t understand,” and all the normies just naturally fall in line without question.

    They also need a permanent underclass to project their shame and mediocrity upon, often implying, “well at least we’re not like those guys,” or “don’t be that guy.” Anyone who even remotely threatens the status quo will be seen as an enemy whom the normies will seek to destroy any which way they can. How can the normies mock incels if escorts are restoring their dignity?

    Was it not the normie wives of 1917 who pressured their normie husbands who were lawyers and congressmen at the time to criminalize prostitution? And did they not leverage their cookie (or the threat of lack) in order to get their husbands to comply?

    Normies are the gatekeepers of society. Their job is to please their appointed master by keeping eccentrics whom they have labeled heretics in our so-called places. There are no natural incels. An incel is the end result of societal gatekeeping. He is unique for his time and place, and he is also geo-locked due to poor finances.

    So when an incel hires a prostitute, both will be shunned and punished, whether financially, legally, or socially. They HATE the prostitute because they can no longer shame the incel.

    Finally, for those women who actually have a mind of their own, and who are not total psychopaths, it’s ok to be nice. Whenever next you see an incel, give him a smile and remember that he put your consent ahead of his needs. You don’t have to thank him, you just have to honor his basic human dignity.

    Thanks for reading!

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