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elvesofnoldor · 1 year

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we truly live in the most diabolical of timelines when people casually makes misogynist comments in regards to a male character lmao. The other day i saw several popular hundred-likes youtube comments under a IWTV thinkpiece video that jokes lestat is just like "one of those abusive women who get pregnant to trap their partners". so cool that people still think abusive just means "being mean". so cool that people doesn't understand that irl women "babytrapping" their partners are victims of abuse themselves and are often financially and socially dependent on their partner/abuser who probably cheat on them constantly, and since they literally had nowhere to go and no one to go to, she is forced to sacrifice their body just to have a roof over her head and food in her stomach. like lestat is 1. fictional and 2. a man, so this shouldn't be about him, but don't we love to get reminded that we live in a society where people cares very little for victims of abuse??? im in hell.

#mae overshares #female coded louis this female coded louis that. anne rice that woman accidentally female coded her husband!#also journal articles in the 1990s continually Not Understand that lestat was not the patriarchical head of the family #i saw a screenshot of a jstor article that argues that lestat being killed and coming back is 'never ending patriarchy'#and that the patriarchy will never be gone and that it always goes back #see this interpretation is actually false because lestat's narrative function does not help maintaining the patriarchal order in the story #hate projecting heternormative gender roles on inherently non-heteronormative romantic dynamics BUT #claudia could never free herself from patriarchcal control and run away from her 'mother'#because her 'mother' isn't her 'mother' or even maternal figure!!! louis was the father! the big bad wolf in grandma's clothes!!#claudia ran away from and killed the closest person she gets to a real mother (lestat)#and isolated herself with the p*dophile!! the predatory father!!! the patriarchy was never even HARMED #anne rice wrote a story so fucking complicated that half of a century later people still doesn't get it #that jstor article is probably published in the early 1990s but still humanities are a joke #i'd know. i took a major in the humanities

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