Another Professor Pushing An Agenda Instead Of Actually Teaching - Called Out! 

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The Bert and Ernie thing has been settled ages ago. Someone at the Henson company has stated "They're puppets... They don't have a sexual preference"

It seems she has forgotten Freud's warning. "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

She is seeing what she wants to see; not what is actually there.

(2 vampires talking) "I'm so hungry" "Dude, sunrise is in 5 minutes, if you go out now, you'll be a little pile of ash" "I'm starving, it'll be fine" (Vampire 1 turns into a bat, flies off. 2 minutes pass, vampire 1 comes back with a blood-smeared mouth) "Whoa, you found something? How?" "Do you see that tree over there?" "Yes" "I didn't"

As a Romanian I have been waiting for 450 years to find such experts.

The popular character Dr. House had a line in one of his TV shows that is absolutely relevant : "Oncologists see cancer." That is, for every list of symptoms they get, their first thought isn't "what is WRONG with this person," it's "what sort of cancer would cause these symptoms?" I imagine a "gender studies professor" approaches life the same way. It doesn't start with "what is the message of this piece of literature" it's "what is the GENDER assumption and intention of the author?" Everyone sees the world through lenses that are often of our own creation. I think Anita Sarkesian said it best : "Everything is racist, everything is sexist, everything is homophobic, and you have to keep pointing it out." I really really don't care what a gender studies person says about Vampires in media, because unless they themselves wrote the piece, they don't know what the author intended without knowing the author.

I wish the myth of "the French term for orgasm is la petite mort" would stop. The French word for orgasm is orgasme. "La petite mort" was an expression to mean fainting in the 1500s. Since then, it's been used a handful of times by some authors as a poetic euphemism for orgasm indeed, but it is by no mean a common expression for it. (I'm French and seriously annoyed eveytime I see this factoid shared online.)

Her not realizing the depictions of lust are supposed to represent evil and a self destructive sin is HILARIOUS!

29:50 For those wondering, Eli is NOT trans. He's a boy who got castrated against his own will at the age of twelve before being turned into a vampire. He never identifies himself as a female and people only see him as a girl due to his androgynous appearance. I have no idea how anyone can consider him a trans kid

As a gay man, I'm sick of all of this.

Yes! “Not everything is about sex and sexuality.” Good for your comments, Metatron.

*talks about vampires Interviewer: "Anything else?" Her: "Ernie and Bert are gay" That has to be some of the most out of left field shit I've ever heard.

The Bert and Ernie thing is a symptom of a larger problem - activists are completely unable to understand the difference between gay love and the brotherly love that two friends share.

That they give doctorates to people like this are precisely why credentialism is a thing: possessing a scrap of paper is not the same as being wise or knowledgeable.

as a Veterinarian I've always associated Vampirism and Lycantropy to ancient descriptions of people infected with Rabies, for starters to this day the principal transmitters of rabies to this day are bats and canines, there's also a lot of symptoms we could associate with them, for example victims of rabies contort in very unnatural ways, and can appear unresponsive and/or dead, then they "come back" but they would act savage, no reasoning, and would bite and even try to eat people if left alone, of course people that were bitten would eventually turn the same, hence, "if you're bitten by a vampire or a werewolf you'll turn into one or at least into a ghoul", there's another thing, rabies victims become hydrophobic in late stages of the disease, would particularly hate to get wet and avoid bodies of water, which is were the weaknesses of holy water and "not being able to cross running water" from the vampires could've come from.

Her PHD: “I’m an expert you can’t question me” Her body language: “every other word I say is a blatant lie and speculation” If you’re gonna be a pathological liar to push a narrative you should learn to suppress your body language.

That is what people who study literature do: they read things into texts that are not there. A friend of mine had a conflict with his professor of Dutch literature as this professor said a certain text meant something and my friend, whose father was friends with the author, simply asked the author and the author denied that meaning being the case. This professor still does not like my friend lol.

I was watching a nature documentary and it showed a cheetah stalking and catching a gazelle. As it was chewing on the gazelle’s throat, I thought wow, that’s very homoerotic.

Disgusting, they trick people into clicking, the title only says Vampire Expert, then they add 5 minutes of actual interesting facts without politics being mentioned, UNTIL she starts preaching about politics for 15 minutes, barely talking about vampires anymore. Trickery, disgusting practice.

The hairy palms being a reference to perversion, may possibly be in reference to the old myth that too much “self pleasing” would cause you to go blind and grow hair on your palms.

Watching a Woman with a Bad AC Slater haircut talk about her authority on Vampires. What a time to be alive.

Ann Rice talked about the underlying narrative of Interview With The Vampire, and how it was all an allegory of her years of struggle with alcoholism, and the death of her 5 year old daughter (who is revived in the character Claudia). And, living in New Orleans, being a bit of a goth girl, where temptation and the “party life” is constantly pulling you in. And she didn’t wrote the books in the 90s, but rather in the 70s and 80s. Editing to add… no! The “gift of vampirism” is not a homosexual thing! And it ain’t a goddamn gift! Louis absolutely hates that HAS to feed off blood to maintain his life! He’s an addict who hates his addiction, but cannot stop. That seems overt and obvious to me! (Although, I’m also very familiar with addiction)

I was surprised she saw "Let the right one in", as a romance story. It's a horror movie. Eli has an old man who kills for Eli to bring Eli blood. Eli berates him for not supplying enough. The old man clearly loves Eli.. When the old man can't help Eli any more he lets Eli feed off him. Eli coldly discards him. The horror is in the end when they're on the train together and you realize that Eli has replaced the old man with this boy and the boys future will be that of the old man.

The saddest part is in Interview with a Vampire.... Its not a good thing to become a vampire. Most of the vampires .... just kinda wanna die lol They watch everyone around them die, they can't make any real friends, they cant have a normal life. Then after years and years they just wanna die. Is that really a good comparison for LBGT? I dont believe its good to tell people, possibly younger people. "Hey sooooo just so you know. it will never get better and after years and years you are gonna wanna end it.... well see ya"

In the beginning she said that Nosferatu brought the whole Sun vulnerability into the mix, then she constantly brings references to old tales where vampires are vulnerable to the sun.

what i don't understand is how people like that still have a job.

That is why he is called Count Dracula... He is going around, helping people to count things, he doesn't even try to go inside the house to rob or kill someone... He is just trying to show people how numbers are useful, and since people hate math, they try to kill him. He is just misunderstood math professor.

In Twilight, they are not vegetarian vampires, they eat animals like deer instead of humans. I dont think a vampire drains people like “consumption” and there isn’t anything I found in Twilight that is philosophical. Thank a for the video 😊💎

The shaving scene. Back when going to the barber to get a shave was a thing, the barber was a person you absolutely had to trust, they were repeatedly passing an incredibly sharp knife through your throat after all. That's why this type of scene is so prevalent especially in older movies, it represents a menace doing something you would only allow to your trusted barber, who had everything to lose if he cut you. This is a scene appeals to masculine sensitivities, and I'm not surprised a woman with her ideologies wouldn't understand it at all, there is no sexuality, it's pure horror. And just like that, she twists everything to forcefully fit stuff in her politics. Shameless.

That haircut is a dead giveaway.

Imagine being in her classroom, hearing all these inaccuracies, and not being able to point them out because she is clearly unable to even entertain the idea that she may be wrong. She built her own identity and career on these narratives and she’s not going to let anyone challenge them.

"Dracula is in the Sun totally fine". No he is not. He loses all his Powers in the Sun Light. If Harker and the Rest had catched him in the Sun Light, he couldn't be able to defend himself. They met him in his House in London and he fled through the Kitchen because he was unable to defend himself. This is at least what i read at Bram Stokers Dracula.

Academics, I've often found, are the definition of the phrase, "When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail."

I‘m a medical/psychological professional and studied at a university which focused on natural sciences, methodology, statistics and empirical studies. Once one of our methodology professors quoted (it wasn’t in englisch so sorry for any grammatical inaccuracy): „The only scientifical way to view and understand the world and how it works is to adjust your theory and assumptions about the world according to your empirical data. Never adjust or manipulate your data so it fits in your theory and assumptions. You will never learn something about the world and how it works in this case.“ I was very impressed back then because he spoke like someone would make a pledge of allegiance. And I never thought about how important this would be about 25 years later. To be honest, whenever I hear a „professional“ talking about anything and I hear words like [this] is because of colonialism/ patriarchy/oppression etc. I have to sigh. It is the ulitmate adjustment/manipulation of your „data“ so it fits in your theory.

Her inane interpretations remind me of the meme of the author and the literature teacher . . . Book: "The curtains were blue." Lit Teacher: "This line shows how depressed and lost the author felt." Author: "The curtains were effing blue!"

She says queer and gay people are really good at reading the subtext between the lines which is a clever way of her saying we take any story we like and say that it's gay because we want it to be

Didn't realize watching the Twilight movies made you a doctor.

She clearly sees the world not as it is, but the way she "wants" it to be. Self-validation alert. Someone actually gave her a Phd.

I miss the times when the only thing vampires sucked was blood.

10:58 I like how we went from vampires to Bert and Ernie are gay and then just going off on a complete lgbtqia2s+ conversation that has nothing to do with vampires anymore

That face she's making after she introduced herself and listed her credentials. Shes so very satisfied with herself. She's actually tipping her chin up a bit so she can physically look down her nose.

Anne Rice, the author of Interview with the Vampire, lost her five-year-old daughter to leukemia. Anne struggled with depression and addiction for a long time which is reflected in the characters she created

Yep, Vanity Fair got an activist, and not a folklorist that could actually speak intelligently on the subject. For example: the Filipino Aswang hold similarities to the Biblical Lilith, as well as the Indonesian Penanggalan--yet this is beyond her as an obvious LGBTQ+ activist. Her very definition of a vampire is not only Euro-centric, but injected with a modern agenda, so-much-so that she really can't get past her own confirmation bias in the pop-culture versions of vampires

@21:00 THANK YOU! She trying to obfuscate with “the church” or “the shape” shows that she’s just as put off to Christ as the damned vampires.

11:15 "And because queers have lacked representation, they're really good at finding the subtext." I'd argue that they're more desperate to fabricate that subtext to create artificial representation. Over the years, I've seen several fictional characters have some random sexuality label slapped on them and propped up as an icon for x group by the LGBt community.

i love how she contradicts herself immediately with sesame street's count dracula. She says a modern movie introduced vampires burning up in the sun. Then talks about it being an old myth that you could keep vampires busy counting until they can get captured or burn up in the sun choose one! either it's new or it's not

This woman is getting paid six figures to a spew this utter nonsense to students

There are two reasons this woman probably sees the shaving thing as "homoerotic." 1.) With the invention of personalized, disposable razors, it's no longer common for a man to have his face shaved by someone else. So she probably had the thought, "Why would Dracula be shaving him unless it was because he wanted to be closer to him? And why would he want to be closer to him unless it was for sexual reasons?" A ridiculous conclusion, but one I could see her reasoning her way into. 2.) It is a VERY common trope in self-indulgent, gay romance stories (almost always written/drawn by women, btw) for one man to shave the other for sexual reasons. And before anyone asks, yes, I know this because I read that stuff. I would never apply those tropes to old stories to push an agenda, though. Because I'm not an ideologue. I just enjoy the self-indulgence. Sue me. Edit: To answer your question about the hairy palms. When I was in college, we were taught about an alleged myth about masturbation that was supposedly held by old, sex-negative people back in the day. This myth was that masturbation would cause hair to grow on your palms. I have no idea if that myth was ever actually widely held since a lot of things I learned in that class turned out to be bunk, but that could be what she's referring to.

Fun fact, the Tolkien estate actually did sue TSR to make them stop using the term "hobbit". And thus they became "halflings". Kept the hairy feet, though.

I grew up with Sesame Street since 1969 and never once thought Bert and Ernie were a gay couple. Just friends, almost like brothers. A puppet version of the odd couple.

The film Nosferatu is officially regarded as being plagiarised because, having been refused the rights to make a movie based on Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, they lifted the plot in its entirety and simply changed the name of the Count. The Stoker estate sued and it was ordered that copies of the movie must be destroyed. Some surviving prints resurfaced in later times so that we can see it today.

20:09 "the author has created, the author has the last word". 100% true and I love to remember Sanrio saying that Hello Kitty isn´t a cat, but a little girl :D :D :D

No, confused Katie. Bert and Ernie are brothers not lovers.

Dracula: What is a man? Weird professor: OMG Dracula is queer.

I mean, it’s Vanity Fair, not the New England Journal of Medicine. Where else would this woman ever be “published?”

The thing with lord of the rings is, before Tolkien, Elves and Dwarves were essentially nothing like in his books. All modern fantasy has plagiarized that part of his books.

Teach kids critical thinking, give them objective truth, and answer questions they have. That's how teaching should work.

Yeah... pretty sure that Norman Stiles wasn't alluding to some vague folktale about vampires counting rice when he invented Count von Count for Sesame Street but, rather, making the abundantly obvious play on words of "counting" particularly given that it is a CHILDREN'S SHOW and the Count initially began each appearance by saying "Greetings! I am the Count. They call me the Count because I LOVE to count things." Also: piss off with your "every male friendship is secretly homosexual" garbage. Bert and Ernie are best friends, something to be aspired to attain, not tainted with your perverse fantasies.

Just goes to show you how you don't need intelligence,hard work, or experience to get a PHD these days so long as you choose to specialize in pushing certain agendas

Anne Rice really did intend for some homoeroticism however the vampires in the book claim their sex organs stop functioning or something so over time they fall in love with members of either sex. the biting and blood exchange substituted for the sexual act, it had a similar euphoria for them.

"What's sexual about hairy palms?" There's a certain activity that makes your palms hairy and makes you go blind, according to certain outdated beliefs held by the inventor of corn flakes.

The fact that in French we say, or used to say "petite mort" "little death" as synonym of orgasm, has nothing in common with the vampire mythology, this here is pure interpretation. "Little death" was originally a medical term used to say fainting, or even getting dizzy, it was then distorted in literature to depict a very strong orgasm, there's no "orgasm" in a vampire agression, or if there is, it is not an exchange, there's victim. I mean anybody can interpret a vampire's bite as being sexual, but you cannot say that's how it is, that there's no other meaning than what you personaly understood. And i really don't think there was any queer representation in Sesame street, i have serious doubts about it.

Title is wrong. It should have been: "another activist pretending to be a professor". Keep up the good work my friend 🙂

The WWDITS thing is based on vampires hiding away from society and being out of touch. It also reflects a bit on how we all tend to cling to aspects of our past as we age (80s music was the best. Fight me). But importantly for the show, it allows them to use a lot of "fish out of water" humor. It's worth noting too that the show does include a lot of more modern acclimated vampires (Colin Robinson himself being an example).

When she said that Nosferatu “plagiarized Dracula” i believe she’s referring to the fact that Nosferatu was an unauthorized film adaptation of Dracula (it changed just enough of its elements to avoid a lawsuit but was basically an adaptation of the Dracula book)

I found it quite interesting at the beginning... then she dropped the Bert and Ernie thing out of nowhere. I think I got whiplash.

She hit every faux intellectual progressive buzz word. This reminds of the Grievance Studies affair. She talks a lot without saying sht. Systems of systemic structural institutions of systemic structural institutions systems...

I have a feeling that you and the History of Everything channel would get along VERY well. 2 History nerds just nerding out, can't think of something more beautiful.

She’s just a propagandist.

I find it fascinating that these kinds of people are somehow easy to spot before they even say a word - they very often have this particular tense condescending facial expression that I don't see much in other contexts. And when they start talking, irrespective of the words they are saying, they make me uncomfortable just by their body language - and by that I mean empathy: When I try to feel into the speaker, their dissonances reflect in my own mind and I realize how unpleasant it would be to be that person.

Every time I see a story like this, I believe my choice to abandon my studies in Academia was the correct decision.

Dracula isn't a heart throb with a tragic love story in the book. Metatron is probably talking about Coppola's film, starring Gary Oldman. Oldman is indeed good looking. Dracula in the book is described as an immensely strong, clean shaven, tall old man with long and sharp canine teeth dressed in black. He has hairy palms and hands that are cold as ice, more like a hands of a dead person. He casts no reflection of him in the mirror. Jonathan Harker witnesses as he emerges from the window and begins to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings, move downwards with considerable speed. Being a nobleman, he indeed can be courteous and elegant, but at the same time, people experience a sense of disgust, nausea and dread around him. A sight of blood makes his eyes blaze with a sort of demoniac fury that disappears when his hand touches a rosary. Dracula's face in the book: "His face was a strong-a very strong-aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor. Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine; but seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather coarse-broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point. As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder. It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal."

I read up on vampires for a long time (no PhD but a lot of personal interest): - Nosferatu was originally released when Dracula was still the property of the Stoker estate (Stoker died in 1912 and Dracula was not public domain in the UK until 1962). Florence Balcombe, Stoker's widow, sued the studio that produced it for plagiarism and won. The only reason we still have the film today is that some copies were preserved despite her attempts to have the film erased. - Count Orlok, the main character of Nosferatu, does not actually die from the sun, the sunrise coinciding with Orlok's death was meant to be analogous to the darkness he spread was coming to an end. This was misconstrued and the idea of not being able to go out in sunlight became a subject of stories since. - Dark Shadows was not the first to have a sympathetic vampire. One Penny Dreadful series is named Varney the Vampire and ran from 1845-7 (thus ending the same year that Stoker was born). As the author found his feet, an arc emerged where Varney was sympathetic because he tried to rise above what he had become but the thirst would always claim him back. - I do not recall if this is theory or fact, but I believe Carmilla (Le Fanu's title character) was inspired by Elsabet Bathory, the bloody countess. - From what I understand Stoker based Dracula's appearance and character on his boss at the Lyceum Theatre in London, Henry Irving, a stage actor who doubled as the theatre's manager. I think the sexual perversion remark is off base in anything when you take that into account. -Twilight is intended to be shown as "pure" because it is written by a devout Mormon. However, the vampire is shown to be extremely unhealthy, stalking, controlling, and more. The characterisation in that series is shallow crap and honestly you're better off not reading/watching it. Meyer doesn't deliver what she promises in the end. - The idea of Lestat being gay isn't new. I recall seeing a documentary about vampires in media about 20 years ago that touched on the idea of this as part of seeing contemporary taboos and in the 90s there was still the link between AIDS and the LGBT community. There is also the coincidence around Rice's son Christopher. He began going to gay bars in his senior year of high school, but didn't come out to his parents until after meeting his first boyfriend. This would have happened around the time the film was released. Some facts that I personally find interesting: - There are different stories as to how vampires are made, including one about a cat jumping over a corpse (not unlike the Japanese bakeneko does to control a corpse) - The Greek Orthodox church has a belief that the excommunicated will come back as a vampiric creature called the vyrkolakas. - Japan and Egypt are two places notable for having no native vampire folklore - Vampires entered the Japanese pulps through two short stories and an essay that came out in 1930 (I got this from a commentary for Vampire Hunter D)

I found the original video a while ago, while searching for facts. Needless to say, I was so put off and didn't even make it half way through, before clicking off. It really does make me happy to see Metatron is finally addressing this!

The montage at the start is hilarious 😂

Her analysis of 'Let The Right One In' is, in my opinion, completely wide of the mark. It's not a story of young love at all, it's a very clever film because it displays how the vampire is not only parasitic in the sense that it feeds on the blood of humans, but is parasitic in a far more exploitative and psychological sense. The vampire exploits Oskar's loneliness and his status as a victim of bullying in order to take complete control of his life and will use him to collect victims for her, just as she did the man who everyone assumes at the beginning of the film is her father. She makes Oskar fall in love with her but never feels any true love for him, because, as an inhuman, parasitic monster, she is incapable of love. When her former servant becomes useless to her and in fact becomes a liability, she kills him and drinks his blood with absolutely no remorse, despite the years that he has accompanied her and the risks he's taken feeding her. Oskar's parents aren't abusive at all, they love Oskar, they're estranged from one another though and as a result they're distant from their son, in his mother's case because she has to work hard to financially support Oskar and in his father's case, because he's simply removed from Oskar's everyday life. It's a truly brilliant film precisely because it makes the viewer ask questions about human psychopathy, about those who can exploit others for their own means. It makes the viewer realise that vampires exist in human form, not in the literal sense that they drink blood, but that they will be entirely parasitic and manipulative and totally lacking in empathy, despite being able to give the false impression of loving and caring for their victims. As the film progresses, the viewer realises that Oskar is not her first victim, that she has always found boys like Oskar, that the man who we meet at the start of the film was also once a vulnerable boy like Oskar, whom she exploited, separated from his family and lead into a nomadic, murderous, vengeful life, driven by an unrequited love and ultimately doomed to a desperate, lonely death.

0:48 I mean, her haircut already told us everything we should know about her.

17:17 She's wrong there. David and his boys ARE full vampires. Michael is slowly turning into one. The process just takes time. 31:33 They keep is a bit vague in the movie but Eli does mean he's not a girl. Eli's been forcible castrated when he was served up for food many many years ago. He keeps trying to tell Oskar this but Oskar thinks he means something else. Also, and it's not so on the nose in the movie, but the guy who takes care of Eli, is 'fond' of young boys. Eli keeps his advances at bay in general but also needs a familiar so the way he looks works in his favor.

Anything can be sexual in the mind of a pervert.

22:15 Regarding a hairy palm: in some parts of the world, people caution (as a joke) that too much masturbation can cause hair to grow on a man's hand palm. This is not the case in Europe and certainly not at the time of the writing of the book, so her assumption that it represent perversity is very probably wrong.

'One agenda, ha ha ha. Two agendas ha ha ha'. The count has spoken. 'Now listen to the music of the children of the night'.

"to do the subtextual reading" = "to make things up that aren't there" Thank you again, Metatron. First she throws out a few basic myth facts, and the odd movie reference. Cover established, she strikes with her agenda.

To be fair, Interview With The Vampire was intentionally written with heavy sexual undertones by Anne Rice. All her work is charged that way. Edit: Still a better love story than Twilight.

Well, she taught us Ph.D. doesn't mean shit. I am so glad I have degree in civil engineering instead of some politics-ridden field.

29:50 It's pretty amazing how much of the LTROI book was omitted from the 2008 Swedish and 2010 American adaptations. The most important aspects here would be: -Flashbacks showing the origin of Eli, who is revealed to be an 18th century peasant boy who was kidnapped with other children, castrated and turned by two vampires (a wig-wearing nobleman and a short guy with a perverse sense of humour) -The role of secondary characters (like Johan or Karlston), but especially Tommy, a criminal teenager who lives in the same building as Oskar and Eli and also has daddy issues and a trauma related to death. The complete omission of Tommy in the adaptations is the one that hurts me the most, since I love the brotherly relationship that he shares with Oskar despite both boys being two sides of the same coin. I am glad Matt Reeves at least included a mention of him in the remake. -Hakan resurrecting as a zombie (since his neck did not break when he died and the vampirism virus spread through his body) and setting out to find Eli to satisfy his perverse s*xual desires, being finally stopped by Tommy when they are both locked in a basement Although the 2008 Swedish film is a masterpiece and the 2010 American remake a pretty decent flick despite being completely unnecessary, I have to admit I always hated that they never adapted many fascinating elements of the novel due to the restricted pace of a two-hour film. Because of that, I was extremely angry when they made the 2023 series, as, despite having a perfect format to make an 100% faithful adaptation to the novel, literally created a story so completely different from the original story that it can't even be considered an adaptation. Heck, the 2010 remake diverged A LOT from the original book and it still can be considered an adaptation, as the original plot and evolution of the characters are still thefe (not to mention it even includes elements of the book not depicted in the 2008 film, like the influence of Romeo & Juliet, a reference to Tommy and the origin of Eli/Abby). I hope that one day the fascinating story of LTROI will be adapted in its fullness

Dr. Laura: Did I get the job as a professor? Dean: I don’t know, you don’t seem woke enough for this position. (Dr. Laura shaves both sides of her head) Dean: Alright, your hired.

I have read many Anne Rice's novels, it's true that most of her vampires are bisexual, transgender matters don't exist in her world though, Anne Rice was mostly interested in the existential part of immortality and the nature of evil in constrast with sanctity. Her most favourite character Lestat sometimes strives for goodness while he knows he's a beast with raw thirst for not just blood but also for authority, flamboyant and quite self absorbed, he knows that no matter his sophistication (he loves knowledge and the arts) he won't be redeemed for his crimes, Rice's vampire universe is multilayered and intriguing, sensual yes but as I said mostly existential. Her antiquity mentions of vampirism are also quite interesting, she tries to build a genealogical tree where the boon is immortality and great physical strength but that's also a curse, her vampires often long for their lost relatives and intimacy, they see mortals as both weak but also remarkable.

thank god for sensible creators like you considering where our times are going people like you are needed more and more thanks for your work and keep it up

And we wonder why our centers of higher education have gone to crap.

A vampire expert? These Americans and their imaginative jobs and university specialisations... What's next, an unicorn expert? Who gives diplomas on fantasy creatures and what's the name of the field which studies magical creatures?

Surely, it isn't their intention to project predatory monsters onto themselves.. Right?

The fact that this woman while so eager to tie the Vampire to sexual identity just glossed over Nosferatu while missing the opportunity to mention that the director F.W. Murnau was Gay and featured themes of being "Different", "The Outsider" ,or "Unnatural" in his films really shows that the nuance of what she is talking about is completely lost unless it has the subtly of a brick to the skull. And missed the opportunity to take the fact that he was Gay to twist the narrative to say that sexuality and gender politics were at the start of the "Modern" Vampire depiction really shows the shallow depths of her "Research" Her hyper focus on the "Lustful" or "Sexual" Vampire also falls flat as she failed to mention Hammers Dracula portrayed by Christopher Lee which was the first depiction to create and focus on the potential sexual nature of the character

When it comes to interview with the vampire, she is actually spot on. The author did, in fact, write Lestat as bisexual. He does have a sexual fascination with Louie. In her books vampires cannot have sex. Their sexual organs do not work after they become a vampire. She describes the act of feeding as a sexual experience for them. I can't speak for any of the other things she said about any of the other works. I have read those books though. And I have seen interviews with Anne Rice. Her reading is exactly what the author intended.

To be fair, this disgusting hairstyle at least clearly telegraphs the bullshit.

My MIL was a painter who did mostly watercolor paintings. She and her friends went around the county finding places they wanted to paint. They were invited to display their paintings in the art museum. She went to the exhibit. A guide was talking about one of her paintings and went into this long artsy fartsy lecture about what the artist was thinking and trying to convey as it was painted. My MIL didn’t say anything but told me that she painted it because it was pretty view. A life experience of your comment that it’s the author/creator who has the last word on intent and interpretation.

As for the homoerotic shaving scene, Game of Thrones did do that one where it was entirely, unquestioningly homoerotic. Even then it does carry the undertone of violence.

We should not judge a book by the cover, but just look at her...

The Segway going from Count having to count everything to Bert and Ernie being supposedly gay is weird, nonsensical and incredibly jarring, it has absolutely nothing to do with vampires🤷‍♂️

"Bert and Ernie are gay" No they are not. The creators have always confirmed they are just friends. "Subtextual reading" you mean your porn addiction?