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- From: branwen@sage.cc.purdue.edu ( )
- Subject: Re: vampyre girls
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- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <1992Nov21.005653.8526@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:50:32 GMT
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- You asked why female vampires are always portrayed as voluptuous
- sensuous creatures. The reason is simple. We live in a world that has
- been created by men, with a history that has been written by men. It is
- the same reason women in Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy rpg's are
- always clad in little armor and would be wearing a 36-D bra if the artists
- ever bothered to give them one in the first place. Women in fantasy, and by
- this I mean the fantasy as created largely by men, have always been idealized
- in the physical sense, while men in fantasy are permitted to be idealized in
- either the physical, moral, or existential sense. Women are beautiful, and no
- more. Men are handsome, but may also be stoically virtuous (women are merely
- virtuous if they are chaste) or morally beyond reproach.
- I didn't really mean to jump on the bandwagon here, but the question
- begs the answer. Women vampires, as creatures of fantasy, are subject to
- portrayal only in the form that the male fantasizers choose to give them.
- For a woman to be portrayed as anything other than an ugly hag, she must be
- given the opposite extreme. There is no such thing as a plain, unimpressive
- and unassuming woman in fantasy. Where a woman begins as such, she is
- invariably transformed into an object of great (formerly undiscovered)
- beauty.
- As far as why you don't see any "women like that around here" the
- answer is equally simple. Women like that don't spend a lot of time in the
- computer lab. They have dates.
- Karen
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