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- From: aw1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Andrew Wargo)
- Subject: Re: vampyre girls
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:26:38 GMT
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- In article <By5688.Cp6@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> branwen@sage.cc.purdue.edu ( ) writes:
- > 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, personally, find almost all women beautiful ... Chastity doesn't, in
- true sense, assume virtue...and the opposite is true. Nicely put, Karen.
-
- > 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
- >
-
- Ah, but there is a thing such as an initially 'plain, unimpressive, and
- unassuming woman' in reality. And those are almost always the most fun,
- by far the more socially developed, and a damn good time to hang out with.
- ...and rarely are they truly 'plain, unimpressive, and unassuming.' It's
- been my experience that they are wonderful women. And, as an afterthought
- for those of you shaking your self-involved heads, I am not locked away
- in _my_ room hiding from those beautiful, intelligent women...I'm often
- sought after, and quite simply enjoy seeing a beautiful woman...but I've
- digressed from my point terribly.
-
- My compliments, Karen. Well put, and timely.
-
-
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