Comments on: Good morning, patriarchy! http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:33:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: amphibious http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116725 amphibious Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:01:14 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116725 Absotively - try Ray Bradbury's "The Tiny Assassin" Absotively - try Ray Bradbury’s “The Tiny Assassin”

]]> By: CD http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116694 CD Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:40:35 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116694 seriously, there needs to be an anti-patriarch anti-imperialist female villain-- it doesnt make sense that all famous horror tales represent the already-represented--but i guess it just goes to show that these are the "deviants" and thus are more interesting and scary. dr. j and mr. hyde for example. imagine that, a white man going insane? never on gods green earth. seriously, there needs to be an anti-patriarch anti-imperialist female villain– it doesnt make sense that all famous horror tales represent the already-represented–but i guess it just goes to show that these are the “deviants” and thus are more interesting and scary. dr. j and mr. hyde for example. imagine that, a white man going insane? never on gods green earth.

]]> By: Azundris http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116624 Azundris Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:37:27 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116624 Alix, the predator penetrating one's body certainly always looked like a rape metaphor to me. There even seems to be a weird parallel between turning the victim into a vampire, and rape resulting in pregnancy: both are violations that result in unwanted lasting change to one's body, and a sick "bond of the blood." Nine Deuce, «the whole BDSM, vampire-loving goth scene» — some but not all goths fit that bill — not sure if you were naming the specific subset or aiming for a tautology. When I was a teen goth nobody ever mentioned vampires, but non-goth men on several occasions gave me Anne Rice books. Needless to say, they were rather surprised I hated that rapefest rubbish. And yes, I know that "Sleeping Beauty" is supposedly much worse. Alix, the predator penetrating one’s body certainly always looked like a rape metaphor to me. There even seems to be a weird parallel between turning the victim into a vampire, and rape resulting in pregnancy: both are violations that result in unwanted lasting change to one’s body, and a sick “bond of the blood.”

Nine Deuce, «the whole BDSM, vampire-loving goth scene» — some but not all goths fit that bill — not sure if you were naming the specific subset or aiming for a tautology. When I was a teen goth nobody ever mentioned vampires, but non-goth men on several occasions gave me Anne Rice books. Needless to say, they were rather surprised I hated that rapefest rubbish. And yes, I know that “Sleeping Beauty” is supposedly much worse.

]]> By: Cass http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116615 Cass Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:59:29 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116615 What can you do? In East Texas, you get eaten alive by mosquitos, here, its the vampires. I just wish I could negotiate the Shoal Creek bike trail every morning without being periodically overcome by the smell of bat shit. Here, by the way, is the Greer essay. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/09/gender.books I completely agree with her, by the way, that "Frankenstein" is a crappy book, and to this day I don't understand my favorite professor's liking for it. (I was too love-struck at the time, I'll admit, to seriously dispute her opinion on anything.) What can you do? In East Texas, you get eaten alive by mosquitos, here, its the vampires. I just wish I could negotiate the Shoal Creek bike trail every morning without being periodically overcome by the smell of bat shit.

Here, by the way, is the Greer essay.

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/09/gender.books

I completely agree with her, by the way, that “Frankenstein” is a crappy book, and to this day I don’t understand my favorite professor’s liking for it. (I was too love-struck at the time, I’ll admit, to seriously dispute her opinion on anything.)

]]> By: Ivy http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116612 Ivy Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:23:07 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116612 Hays County has far worse vampire problems than Bell; never go to H-E-B on a Saturday night with a waxing gibbous moon. Hays County has far worse vampire problems than Bell; never go to H-E-B on a Saturday night with a waxing gibbous moon.

]]> By: Alix http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116520 Alix Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:10:48 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116520 <i>Maybe vampires, then, are just zombifiers of women.</i> I always thought vampires were a pretty good metaphor for predation (and not always sexual predation, although it's been that from the Victorian era on; a lot of old vampire folklore involves the vampire mooching off the family, or sort of serial vampirism where a family member dies, resurrects, kills another family member, and that one resurrects...). But the Victorian/modern vampire has always struck me as a fairly explicit metaphor for rape - especially in things like, say, <i>Dracula</i>. (Okay, so pathetic geekery is not the best way to drop out of lurkdom. Hello!) Maybe vampires, then, are just zombifiers of women.

I always thought vampires were a pretty good metaphor for predation (and not always sexual predation, although it’s been that from the Victorian era on; a lot of old vampire folklore involves the vampire mooching off the family, or sort of serial vampirism where a family member dies, resurrects, kills another family member, and that one resurrects…). But the Victorian/modern vampire has always struck me as a fairly explicit metaphor for rape - especially in things like, say, Dracula.

(Okay, so pathetic geekery is not the best way to drop out of lurkdom. Hello!)

]]> By: sonia http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116469 sonia Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:03:56 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116469 thanks for not missing the catholic symbolism tied to all vampire movies and most horror movies. you rock. thanks for not missing the catholic symbolism tied to all vampire movies and most horror movies.

you rock.

]]> By: Nine Deuce http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116452 Nine Deuce Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:21:03 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116452 I once had a stalker that called himself Lestat. I couldn't put my finger on it at the time, but it looks as if the whole BDSM, vampire-loving goth scene is just a bunch of romanticized misogyny. I once had a stalker that called himself Lestat. I couldn’t put my finger on it at the time, but it looks as if the whole BDSM, vampire-loving goth scene is just a bunch of romanticized misogyny.

]]> By: Absotively http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116451 Absotively Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:18:28 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116451 I recently read an anthology of vampire stories by women (Night Bites) which included a couple stories where the vampires were the protagonist's children. I really liked it, and as further recommendation, the first editorial review on Amazon is quite negative because "although all the stories have a vampiric element, the true emphasis is on feminism." It occurs to me now that "paranormal romance"-type vampire stories are very often transparent patrairchal propaganda: sure, the vampire is harming the protagonist, but that's ok because it's just his nature. And besides, he loves her. Of course she doesn't mind. I recently read an anthology of vampire stories by women (Night Bites) which included a couple stories where the vampires were the protagonist’s children. I really liked it, and as further recommendation, the first editorial review on Amazon is quite negative because “although all the stories have a vampiric element, the true emphasis is on feminism.”

It occurs to me now that “paranormal romance”-type vampire stories are very often transparent patrairchal propaganda: sure, the vampire is harming the protagonist, but that’s ok because it’s just his nature. And besides, he loves her. Of course she doesn’t mind.

]]> By: Cass http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116448 Cass Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:56:45 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/26/good-morning-patriarchy-2/#comment-116448 Germaine Greer argued that the original Frankenstein monster (Mary Shelley's, that is) was about having children. Zombies, of course, are about slavery, and the alienation of soul from body that comes from your body belonging to someone else. Maybe vampires, then, are just zombifiers of women. Is there a better description, for example, of the typical Republican (female) spouse than "bloodless" or "lifeless"? Germaine Greer argued that the original Frankenstein monster (Mary Shelley’s, that is) was about having children. Zombies, of course, are about slavery, and the alienation of soul from body that comes from your body belonging to someone else. Maybe vampires, then, are just zombifiers of women. Is there a better description, for example, of the typical Republican (female) spouse than “bloodless” or “lifeless”?

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