This very "crudeness" designates her as the
"bomb-girl." Bombs were named
after Hayworth, and poster pin-ups marketed Hayworth straddling the
metaphorical bomb. Thus the tragedy of masquerade is the
willingness to please the phallus unto
death, which translated concretely
means the death of the colonized other
from the bomb, usually detonated onto a raced, gendered foreign
body.