#if you/a loved one has been forced to read the phrase 'astarion wives' you may be entitled to hitting people with a baseball bat

[talesfromthecrypts]

Tbh I think you nailed it #also i do believe a huge percentage of people's brains shut off when women find something hot#. That’s what it’s all about in the end - a lot of people simply can’t stand that vampires/gothic romances involving vampires are enjoyed by women at large and they want to bro-keep it. And by bro-keeping it they want to impose the single way vampires must be presented-as simply ugly monsters who only suck blood and nothing else-and insist that it’s the right, best and only way to portray vampires. Otherwise it’s for girls (for them it’s derogatory).

Goes hand in hand with "those silly dumb girls don't know that fucked up thing is wrong and fucked up". We do that's why we like it! It happens in all spaces, many women join in! Its a huge problem when talking about pretty much any media at this point. Which is crazy in horror spaces because women love horror! And I don't like to gender "interests" too much being a video game player of 25 years but like... maybe all horror isn't for you anyway and that's ok.