...with
Sex and the City,
Gossip Girl and
Ugly Betty-fave Wilhemina Slater all these NY-based "empowered women" etc. Argento was really prophetic having Mater Tenebrarum; mother of darkness, youngest and cruelest of Our Ladies of Sorrow, "Mother of lunacies and suggestress of suicides" as Thomas De Quincey calls her, controling the East-Coast Babylon from her Gothed-up Manhattan apartment building