The Distancing Effect - Episode 33 : food essay on the cherry by Anne-Marie St-Louis published on 2022-08-19T20:39:12Z It’s fairly simple to understand why society likes to associate the cherry with the stereotypically feminine. The delicate green stem. The round and plumb curve of flesh. It’s every man’s dream. On the one side you have the red cherry, the sweet, motherly, cartoonish cherry, drawn with two cherries attached to the stem. The Shirley temple. Pretty pretty please with a cherry on top, daddy? The,,, can she bake you a cherry pie? On the other hand, you have the black cherry : tortured mistress, stained fingers, knotted tongue, wicked fruit. Genre Storytelling