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fayevalcntine · 5 months ago

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very lestat is violent and abusive so he's the Man. louis is abused so he's the Woman. there are no blurring lines here any time lestat is effeminate it's a trick or a ploy to get people to trust him. do you guys even hear yourselves? and people act as if these categories they've invented for them are absolute and unchangable as if louis and lestat don't have both in them it's infuriating especially when people are always so smug about their weird gender essentialism

there have always been a lot of people in the fandom who have been very gender essentialist in their read of louis and lestat but it's really ramping up now

#interview with the vampire #I've already said everything I wanted to say about it (and got blocked by like 20 people for simply stating my opinion on my blog; lmao)#but it's fr such an insane swerve into terf logic and these people STILL double-down on it as if they can't see how insanely conservative #they sound with it #denying that white women/white effeminate men can be violent or abusive to their partners or their children #unless they're deliberately acting out some ploy for them to be 'taken less seriously'#(as if racism doesn't exist and Lestat gets more privilege from that than 'faking' femininity for white masculine men...)#it's especially wild hearing of them saying that the show is also trying to trick you into making him 'more palatable' by associating him #with femininity??? as if white abusive mothers are somehow less judged for their abuse.......read any social/court case about #abusive mothers I beg of you #also there's more to criticize in the show taking on a tone of dark comedy within some of his scenes where he's being deranged and how THAT #if anything 'lessens' the effect of the abuse to general audiences than his effeminate mannerisms...#I also find it very funny how some of these people double down on the 'Louis is the mother!' point #and then don't even delve into Louis's own complicated views on women #and particularly how he treats the other women in his life from his past #from his time at the Storyville houses #to Grace and Claudia? just absolutely zero genuine interest in discussing this #bc they gotta stick to this abuser=man/victim=woman binary #and neglect Claudia in this equation either way

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