"Vampires have overwhelmed pop culture because young straight women want to have sex with gay men."

[modernwizard]

I didn't say it. Stephen Marche says it in Esquire. He thinks that the recent spate of popular vampires represents not, oh, say, dangerous sensuality or suave seductiveness or something, but the desire of straight women to get into bed with gay men. He provides no actual evidence for his claim, other than noting that True Blood's anti-vamp crowd ["God hates fangs!"] sounds a lot like the anti-gay crowd. In fact, not till the end of his blithering ramble does Marche reveal what may be his thesis:

And so vampires have appeared to help America process its newfound acceptance of what so many once thought strange or abnormal. Adam and Steve who live on your corner with their adorable little son and run a bakery? The transgendered man who gave birth to a healthy baby? The teenage girl who wishes that all boys could be vampires? All part of the luscious and terrifying magic of today's sexual revolution.

So a gay couple with a son and a business, as well as a transgendered pregnant man, are both grouped in the same "luscious and terrifying" category as vampires. The gay guys and the trans guy are, according to Marche, categorically similar to cold, dead killers. I think that says more about the author's misogyny, homophobia and transphobia than it does about the attraction that many young straight white teenaged girls feel toward recent vampiric characters. Ugh, what a bigot.

Comments

[dollsahoy.livejournal.com]

...and he probably thinks he's made some amazing revelation. Sigh.

[arahitogami.livejournal.com]

Ew.

[bella-fox.livejournal.com]

It never ceases to amaze how people can draw any and every possible connection out of two disparate subjects if they try hard enough.

There are far too many close-minded sickos out there who use everything to further their own twisted agenda. *sigh*

[zander05.livejournal.com]

.... Sure... Transmen are having babies, and gay men and lesbians are starting families because straight girls dig vampires. Let's go with that!

... O.o REALLY??? Silly straight people who think they know things!

[phillycollector.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

I don't "get" his rationale. Vampires - however romantically portrayed - are parasites.

Did he take a poll to reach his conclusion that young women want to have sex with gay men? As a young woman in the 70s, I enjoyed "Dark Shadows" and liked Barnabas Collins, the lead vampire. But I didn't want to have sex with Barnabas. BtW, how many young women even like the "Twilight" series?

Interesting to read if decidedly odd. Thanks for sharing.

[new_vogue_ravyn.livejournal.com]

I can see how he might've thought he had a brilliant new theory going, the trouble is that it relies too heavily on stereotypes and fear of the sexually "abnormal" to take it that seriously.

It's like Twitchell and his theory where a vampire film viewer projects themselves in an incestuous relationship on to the vampire attacking their victim. It sounds interesting at first but ultimately it's got more holes than Swiss cheese.