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

[@metatronyt]

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[@ÆRTAJN]

Hair in the palm of the hand was a creation of the middle ages priests saying that masturbation makes you grow hair in your palms to clarify that 22:05.

[@michelguevara151]

the 'allure' sexual or otherwise of the vampire is a means to an end, that is to say it is like the deep sea angler fish's lure. it is not sexual, it is a way to lure in prey by mesmerism. angler fish do not wish to lure a mate, but food. she's not spouting 'modernism' but rainbow marxism. 99.7% of the western world do not consider these attitudes and opinions as 'modern', but abberant. the entire push of msm to denigrate normal people is to lable their minority views 'modern', as in "we're making this for the modern audience" from hollywood. this 'modern audience' is a fiction easily seen for what it is by the wholesale rejection of these propagandas. as for hairy palms, that is an anglicism, an old way of warning against onanism, that is to say : "if you keep masturbating , you'll get hairy palms".

[@GOBLIN_MENACE]

34:40 ill help. Camazotz from the mayans, old vampires were like the falmer from skyrim

[@michelguevara151]

I watched this all the way through out of loyalty to the channel, but I now must demand that you cover tiktok medieval history videos as punishment for making me watch this vocal fry lesbian marxism activist moron. dieu le veult!

[@spiderlily723]

I am begging you, get some actual literature expert or just queer expert, because the way you dismissed the tencency to tie up the monster and the queer literally hurt to listen to.

[@damrielkaari3718]

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"

[@missourimongoose8858]

Whoever said that deserves a beer ffs can you imagine dedicating your life to entertaining children through puppets and this is the question you get lol wow

[@def3ndr887]

They were involved in ww2 as U.S. bombers in the pacific theater

[@wakkablockablaw6025]

But isn't Kermit the Frog and Ms Piggy a couple?

[@salvadorromero9712]

Recently the Twitter account for Children's Television Workshop has been implying otherwise, using them to market their greatly diminished product on social media during Pride Month. Anyone can plainly see these two were modeled after the Odd Couple, which was quite hot at the time (and perhaps similar works, since as Metatron pointed out these tropes are often very old and widespread). What is less well appreciated is that Bert and Ernie are obviously Puerto Ricans. Puerto Rican folks don't need the confirmation. We are quite good at reading the subtext, and so we don't always need it to be confirmed that Bert and Ernie are Puerto Ricans, because we've known it since we were five. The clip used in the video (maybe it's less obvious here than in the original) must be of a very early Count von Count, from the first years of the show in the early 1970s. Here we see the Count commanding "Silence!" and hypnotizing Bert into a stupor for the offense of interrupting his OCD. Hardly vampirism of course, but he did generally have a more dark and sinister aura that was soon sanded away. There were a few further changes later on in my day too, but relatively little compared to what it is now. Back then there were only about five or six or so kids' educational shows available anywhere, and Sesame Street especially was originally made for gritty kids from disadvantaged backgrounds because they originally assumed only they would be watching TV to keep themselves occupied.

[@petejones6827]

@@wakkablockablaw6025 are you about to argue kermit and miss piggie represent trans species sexuality?

[@JimRibby]

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

[@saruflan5441]

@JimRibby True, but sometimes....but in a vast majority of cases a "cigar" means something else....According to Freud too.

[@wolfgangkranek376]

Which he never said, but it is still true of course.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Freud was right about women. That's the reason they've downplayed him academically for decades now.

[@Fabio-bu9bp]

​@@badlaamaurukehuwhat did he say about women?

[@Gedof]

@@Fabio-bu9bp A lot of completely insane things, like the "penis envy" theory, in which he basically states that girls want to have a penis to have sex with their mom. They then realize they must have been castrated and resents their mother for it, now wanting their dad's penis. That doesn't work because mom already has dad, so now she has to go around searching for other people's penis (men). There's also the one where he says that women developed weaving to braid their pubes so that they can hide the shame of not having a penis (as per the penis envy theory). So yeah, if you see anyone going "Freud was right", especially "about women", now you'll know they're completely unhinged too.

[@Cozonac3000]

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

[@chasemishio1781]

Have you seen any vampires in Romania?

[@rockhound4080]

Not in the mirror.​@@chasemishio1781

[@Cozonac3000]

​@@chasemishio1781 I was born in the 16th century. I never saw one, this is just fantasy and I feel insulted.

[@Naomi-pq6tv]

Only 450 years? You are still young 😌

[@rarescevei8268]

​@@Naomi-pq6tvDamn, i'm only 147 years old 😢😢😢😢

[@Omaewashideiru]

A professor of mine once told me “Having a Ph.D doesn’t mean you’re smart, it just means you’re persistent”. After many years in academia, I have to agree. Some Ph.D’s are brillant, others just maintain the status quo and peddle dogma, and sadly it seems that she is one of them. Additionally, remember, peer review in some of these departments and publications is sketchy, look no further than The Grievance Studies Project. Lindsay, Boghossian and Pluckrose bear out how corrupt and radical and lacking in integrity a lot of Gender Studies (and their milleau) departments and journals can be world wide. Of course, she may come from a perfectly reputable academic pedigree, but the sheer intrenchment if post modern, critical theory, neo Marxist zealotry that comes out of the university system these days, you should always be skeptical. Also, Metatron asks why she used the word “Normative” in the particular context she does. Simply put, to her and the “queer” non normative folk, normativity is the oppressive evil boogey man at the gates. So she’s trying to make a value based distinction on what is good and bad based on her values, not of the majority. So any time she uses “normative” it’s supposed to sound like an intellectual application of critical theory, but is instead is another way to undermine socially normal behaviors…because, as Antonio Gramsci states “Everything is political”. For activist scholars like herself, anything she can do deconstruct the modern social order, the better. In this case it’s using language to undermine western traditions. Academic neutrality, is absolutely not possible from a theoretical standpoint for scholars of gender studies, queer studies etc, because the underpinnings of these disciplines (being critical theory and Marxism to some extent) demands activism and deconstruction of western civilization to create an undefined utopia. For more and more academic disciplines that become infected with critical theory, the more impossible it will be for them to remain neutral or even objective as to them, there is no such thing as objectivity and everything is a social construct.

[@MrTimjm009]

I agree ,just because someone is educated ( and the more educated one gets , the more obvious it becomes ) it doesnt mean one is intelligent. The two dont go hand in hand necessarily

[@yuumimaisfrancaise]

Unless it's a STEM major. You deadass can't get one if you fail too many classes or pass with grades that are too low for grad school.

[@bricaaron3978]

*"So she’s trying to make a value based distinction on what is good and bad based on her values..."* I don't like to contradict you, but in my opinion such a person is simply amoral and dishonest --- in this case attacking "normativity" in the goal of normalizing "queerness". Typically, such an individual _has_ no values that are not selfish in nature. Being unprincipled, he (or she, in this case) does not actually have a problem with the things he attacks; the problem is that he doesn't currently _benefit_ from the things he attacks.

[@Omaewashideiru]

@@bricaaron3978 Fair point. Perhaps I was being too charitable?

[@bricaaron3978]

@@Omaewashideiru I can't say, lol. You make good points regarding the machinations of the atheo-Leftist. I just tend to simplify behavior as being of an inherently honest or dishonest nature. A person is either constitutionally honest or constitutionally dishonest. The former respects truth and, while not perfect, genuinely strives to uphold that respect, and feels guilty when he does not. The latter does not respect truth, and feels no duty to seek, acknowledge, or divulge it unless it happens to benefit him. He sees nothing wrong with lying.

[@wwiiinplastic4712]

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

[@ExAnimoPortugal]

Scotoma

[@cliffcampbell8827]

"When you are a hammer, everything to you looks like a nail." In other words, when you go looking for evidence to support your side of the story, you'll find it, even if it isn't there.

[@Lissbirds]

That's academia in a nutshell. I one of my literature courses, we had to read a Marxist interpretation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, where the monster represents the working class being disenfranchised, etc etc. Karl Marx was born the same year Frankenstein was published, so there's no way it could have any Marxist themes for an ideology that didn't even exist at the time.

[@arnowisp6244]

Genshin Impact player remembers

[@LatimusChadimus]

Strawman

[@stanbartsch1984]

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.

[@LightLivingEst80]

Everything is not racist or sexist or homophobic - Everything is - antiwhite , antichristian , antiAmerican and antihuman - they trulynwould love for people to stop procreation

[@NameIsDoc]

Exactly if you are trained to see a pattern eventually all you see is a pattern whether it is there or not.

[@kyokoyumi]

💯

[@joywagner979]

"When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

[@موسى_7]

This is exactly what they are trained to do, and this is exactly what they are told by their teachers when they get into this subject. They intentionally choose to be stupid.

[@pattywolford]

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

[@olgagerman9216]

Lost it when he said it 😂 it's just perfect argument to shut all wokes

[@sonjaanderson4074]

Even Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

@@sonjaanderson4074 Ha! That's not Bill Clinton said!

[@brentsrx7]

Tell that to the tenured perverts grooming your children in public schools.

[@VK-sz4it]

Well, first time, I agree with the professor then Metatron (not on political part, but Freudian one). Not everything is about sex, but those things have quite a lot of sexuality in them. It's freaking obvious.

[@timothymchugh6232]

As soon as I hear the word “normative” come out of someone’s mouth, I know that I’m about to hear a bunch of highly indoctrinated ideological nonsense.

[@TetsuShima]

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

[@ianpage2509]

Because they are brainwashed?

[@jellyfishjones4741]

They have no room for nuance. They have one narrative for the transgender experience, and anything that falls outside that has to be twisted or ignored. Like how they take historical cases of women presenting/living as men as being trans men and dismissing the idea they might have lived that way out of necessity or for other reasons. And many other cases. So they see Eli as someone who was born a certain way and now presents a certain way and that means trans. All other details are inconveniences to be ignored in order to claim "trans representation" for a certain character.

[@Zionswasd]

​@@jellyfishjones4741 well said

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@TetsuShima maybe it's an accidental admission that what they really want is to sterilize the "undesirables".

[@ItchyCinderBlock]

This is true!

[@greenLimeila]

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.)

[@amyb.6368]

So no different to saying "laid with" "slept with" I suppose.

[@alihenderson5910]

I don't speak french but even I can see instantly that it means 'short death'.

[@SimonJM]

Thank you - it's an expression/euphemism I have been aware of for a looooong time and I whilst I very, very rarely think of it or even use it, I will try not to in future!

[@VicecrackVoldermort]

Tbf, I can see how French descriptions of vampirism would use 'la petite mort' instead of 'l'orgasme' to describe orgasms when talking about vampires. It's a good play on words. And I think that's what she's referring to. But that only makes sense in a sensual context. Which the infection at 25:40 was not.

[@simonspacek3670]

I wanted to ask about another expression I heard about, it was something like "in France they say that saying farewell means to die a little". Is that based on true, or is it something Raymond Chandler pulled out of his thumb?

[@magicpyroninja]

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

[@GeoRedtick]

That was my thought exactly. And because they are the the self proclaimed experts their conclusions can’t be questioned by someone who is not gay.

[@martyfromnebraska1045]

​@@GeoRedtick Unfortunately, they're not the "self proclaimed" experts. They've been intentionally promoted within formerly European institutions to give what they say clout from the status these institutions still carry via inertia.

[@ktvghn]

What annoys me so much is that it's people like this who speak for us on our behalf ... Like if I relate to a story and see myself in it, great (as Metatron mentioned too is totally fine), but then preaching to everyone else how that's the definitive intention of the story is just not cool. And I don't appreciate this lady doing that with her own experience "on behalf" of the rest of us. I'd never go saying that my personal connection is what the story SHOULD mean, and everyone who says otherwise is a bigot, lol--the hypocrisy just drives me up a wall.

[@PlayKonto-w9s]

Also that rings completely untrue in even that way when the majority who do that are straight girls/women. Yaoi everybody? In truth, that's mostly a horny female thing. That's all, it's not that deep. I understood that when I was preteen myself, it's embarrassing to watch these adults struggle with that fact and pretend it's "science". I feel bad for these women. They're so desperate to be better than men that even being horny has to be something deeper or else they have a mental breakdown.

[@L-vs7fp]

It's like Pareidolia but it's own version. Pargaydolia.

[@dimerost]

It's interesting how you can HEAR the "offness" in these people's voice before they ever utter something ridiculous.

[@KaeYoss]

(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"

[@Nitro1000]

That's a good one 😂

[@Seevawonderloaf]

😂😂

[@categoricamente1753]

any below average bloke can get a PHD nowadays

[@Nitro1000]

@@categoricamente1753 try it

[@DemolitionManDemolishes]

@@categoricamente1753 it's not even that. All these gender studies, women studies, and the stuff they "teach" - it's not scientific, they dont follow the scientific method in their "studies". The fact that this stuff is taught in universities is complete sham.

[@TheTomekEffect]

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

[@metatronyt]

Appreciate you in the comments thanks!

[@jakubsedlak2173]

Down with this sort of thing

[@analogbunny]

You don't think "famous ancient man hugged another man in famous legend" is proof of gay emperors? 🤔 Every time I see this kind of thing, all I can think is "straight erasure". Poor straight men... not allowed to cry at a friend's funeral or accept a hug or show concern for a friend without being called a homo. It's trash.

[@rogbard]

I know. I´m straight as an arrow myself but I have two gay friends (GenXers like me) who cringe so hard when something like this comes up. It´s actually hilarious.

[@KarlosJKarlos]

I've heard stories of gay/lesbian people being excommunicated because they don't agree with this insane ideology.

[@steffenjensen422]

*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.

[@trith72]

Well, that's what liberalism is...everything insane and out of left field.

[@I.no.ah.guy57]

Exactly. That was so unnecessary. That just shows me HOW MUCH they wanted to have her talk about gender and sexuality, and the fact that she inserted it into every single thing 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@InfernusLair]

That was absolutely set up because she wanted to go into the queer rant

[@zed9256]

One! One crazy agenda pushing feminist! Ah, ah, ah!

[@Pete-tq6in]

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.

[@jacquesprosekticus1332]

Wow, that was good.

[@omarreyes7626]

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.

[@blumiu2426]

Lycanthropy had something to do with rabies, but from what I've read, it had a lot to do with cannibalism. Vampirism shared this too to a degree, depending on culture. From the Native Americans, European and Africa, it's one of the common themes. Drinking of blood is a thing in some pagan traditions, but not human blood, thus the taboo (unless aware of those doing human sacrifice or practiced cannibalism).

[@garymaidman625]

While bats are a transmitter of rabies, the bats in question are vampire bats and other bat species in the New World. This doesn't account for bats being associated with vampires in the old world. In fact rabies has never been detected in Old World bat populations. The article Bat Rabies by Banyard et al explains this. There has recently been a strain of lyssavirus detected in flying foxes of Australia. The rabies virus is a lyssavirus, but it's never been transmitted to humans and if it were to be, might not necessarily be as deadly as the rabies virus. This would be in a similar way to the Asian strain of Ebola virus not being nearly as deadly as the African strain.

[@plebisMaximus]

that's a pretty interesting theory, actually. Thanks for sharing.

[@kamilziemian995]

Thank you for this information.

[@ratoh1710]

It is an interesting line of thought but from all that I can find in the folklore this is not the case. For example, werewolves were extremely different from what we might imagine up until the 1920s. They were always almost always people transformed into literal wolves. They had absolutely no connection to the rabid depiction of modern werewolves other than being people who became wolves. They were simply magical wolves with the minds of people, usually transformed for 9 years, after which they would change back. Sometimes only if they refrained from eating humans. They also couldn't transmit lycanthropy. It was either a special ability that they had, they were transformed via a ritual, or it was a divine curse. Once again it as a transmissible disease was popularized in the 20s, maybe originating around the time Dracula released. Since in the book he quoted his family as the origin of werewolves. As for vampires, that case might be a bit stronger but still not great, as becoming a vampire didn't have much to do with being bit by an animal. Any wound should it kill the person could transform them into a vampire. Alternatively, one could become a vampire by having your corpse jumped over by an animal. The first one might also be where holy water comes into it as it was believed pouring boiling water on the wounds would prevent the transformation. Water since ancient times have been connected to holiness and since vampires were thought of as unholy cursed beings then obviously a large amount of water, like a river, would repel them.

[@TheBestEverEverEver]

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

[@viperstriker4728]

Lust is love is the core message of the pride movement, though they say it as love is love. So it's really what we should expect.

[@mrwhat5094]

yep they're just the hedonist minority of people that have always lurked on the fringes of society but have unfortunately guilt tripped the majority into actually giving them political power and allowing them into wielding it against us.

[@reactiondavant-garde3391]

@@viperstriker4728 "Love is love" have the same energy as a "Prison is just a room".

[@viperstriker4728]

@@reactiondavant-garde3391 I prefer the "water is water, so drink from the toilet or your a bigot."

[@MarkyAndrews-Austin]

​@@viperstriker4728No, but okay. Believe Bullshit.

[@Mr_Case_Time]

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.

[@Ancientreapers]

This professor talks a lot but really says nothing at all. Trying to sound smarter than she is but only parroting the others in that ideology.

[@angrypredator2704]

Did you just assume the cheetahs gender ?!

[@Mr_Case_Time]

@@angrypredator2704 I just assumed that whatever gender the animals were, they were also gay. I mean, what straight animal would put its mouth on another animal in such a sensual way?

[@rosieconvoy4671]

😂😂😂

[@esterbengoa6077]

😂😂😂

[@OfTheSeaKND]

Subscribed. I love channels that DON’T rewrite history to fit their beliefs and absurd narrative.

[@sigurdfenrisson2446]

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 write 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 he 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)

[@analogbunny]

Anne Rice _did_ incorporate homoeroticism into her books - including the vampire novels - but not these scenes. It was more like the joke in _What We Do In The Shadows_ where after centuries of life the vampires get bored and experimental. Anne Rice _vaguely_ does something like this, but more subtle, and again; not in these scenes.

[@sigurdfenrisson2446]

@@analogbunny yes, she did incorporate some homoeroticism in the series. Which got more overt in the later books. And she had a really good relationship with the gays of New Orleans for decades. Her son, Christopher, is a gay. And he’s writing, somewhat, in her style now too. Anyhow, I lived in New Orleans in ‘94 when the movie first came out. I stole two bottles of vodka and me and my girlfriend snuck into the theater on the riverfront and watched it, hammered. Then we went back the next week, sober, and paid to get in. She ended up flying back to Seattle while I was locked up in Orleans Parish Prison for theft and assault (as I said, I’m no stranger to booze and drugs), and I didn’t know until I was released. I did a LOT more drinking after that, and sorta wandering the city. We lived smack dab in the middle of The French Quarter, and I decided I needed to get out to other neighborhoods and try to not drink or smoke crack as much. One day I was meandering about some really nice neighborhood and came across a large group of children sitting in the front yard of a big house, listening to a lady read stories to them. Turns out it was Anne doing her weekly story time for kids thing. I went back several times and just sat a little ways out and listened. I talked with her a few times, and we actually talked about alcoholism and addiction, and I told her how Louis reminded me of myself and my heroin troubles back on the west coast. She tried to get me to go to this AA meeting that she sometimes attended. I didn’t. I ended up homeless and wandering around with no goddamn shoes during Mardi Gras, and that’s when I decided it was time to figure out how to get home to Seattle.

[@StoryLover-7]

@@sigurdfenrisson2446 Thank you for sharing this with us. I hope you are healthy and a little better after all these happened! :)

[@blumiu2426]

Hopefully Anne Rice hasn't flip-flopped like a number of authors have.

[@LisaBrown-m9u]

great information

[@wolfthegreat87]

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.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

For this very reason, I jokingly refer to my best friend of over 25 years as my “hetero life partner”. His wife jokes that if she died I would move into their house. He’s my brother from another mother.

[@alihenderson5910]

Oh they understand alright, it's a deliberately act of subversion.

[@smithryansmith]

I guess she missed the part where the creator of Bert and Ernie said they were not gay. I mean how would he know, right?

[@nova_supreme8390]

The issue is that to the outside two friends showing brotherly love can look very similar to two gay guys trying to keep their interactions low profile in the public. The difference only exists in the heads of the characters and that is why it is easy to insert either one as the thing going on inside their heads. There is no subtext just projection.

[@amicableenmity9820]

They want everyone to be gay "just in case"

[@stevensanders-vp6vq]

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.

[@Deatheater4444]

What could be more romantic than Boy Meets Ghoul?

[@Nyctophora]

I think perhaps the old man "loves" Eli in an illegal way, though.

[@williamjenkins4913]

I remember the realization hitting me when they show the picture of Hakan and Eli both as children. Despite the childlike romance we are being shown we have a clear picture of what Oskar's life is going to be. It's is a dang good movie.

[@fein-z9b]

imdb categorizes it as a dark romance and a horror story

[@Mant111]

It's more of a dark romance. Also Eli is a castrated boy who was turned into a vampire at a very young age, that's why he superficially looks like a little girl.

[@NunoFerreiraX]

11:27 I'm 56 years old. I remember Sesame Street from some 50 years ago. No. They are not gay. Never were. They are friends. Just like kids have friends. She's... well... I won't go down that road.

[@Graye007]

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.

[@pattywolford]

Yes…a scrap piece of paper!

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@Graye007 and half of the people with a useless piece of paper think someone else should have to pay back the tens of thousands of dollars they borrowed to obtain a useless piece of paper. And they also think they're smarter than the rest of us.

[@PenTheMighty]

No but, it's good if you're an authoritarian who needs to justify their role and position in society. It's not just "a thing" it's a "dangerous thing". Someone with zero experience or knowledge can be granted a writ of authority and not just influence but decide policy that will affect whole nations and ways of thinking and processing the world among the general public. These people are teaching children.

[@Sketch_Sesh]

These schools are pumping out real idiots with degrees

[@Dowlphin]

I imagine it is hard to find topics not covered yet. A problem of quantity and how the system works.

[@wynburlochlan758]

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.

[@davidchandler2087]

Exactly, friend. Also, don't worry too much about your Englisch, you've done well. Coming from a native English speaker, you've done well.

[@SocialFutility]

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.

[@NaryanBergstrom]

You can still go to the barber to get a shave.

[@silverskull7669]

​@user-vq8zh6jk7u what he meant is that it was far more common in the past. Of course you can still do it today, but it is a very niche thing.

[@KaeYoss]

Pro tip: If your barber starts singing about pretty women, get the hell out of there.

[@NaryanBergstrom]

@silverskull7669 it is not a "very niche thing", literally all barbers have to learn how to do it when they go to school.

[@KaeYoss]

@@NaryanBergstrom Still an extreme niche. I'd bet that as many as 99% of men shave themselves

[@francas277]

Anne Rice did write actual gay/bisexual vampires in the form of Marcus and Armand but ofc she didn't bring the actually gay ones up here

[@themadmattster9647]

In Vampire Lestat she acknowledged the relationship between Lestat and Louis

[@totalldwarf640]

I dont know if gay is the correct term all of her characters have a love of both genders but not even in the sexual sense. Bi I guess but it still isn't quite right

[@02337755]

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

[@geologist3010]

😂

[@rsr789]

Does she identify as a woman? Careful there, misusing her pronouns is considered a hate crime by her and her ilk!

[@lainiwakura1776]

If she didn't shave her sides, her hair would look really nice.

[@Seevawonderloaf]

She looks pretty cool tbh - even a bit alternative but the bs is so 🙄

[@RichardRenes]

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.

[@1SpicyMeataball]

I remember doing something similar in English class. Analyzing whatever book we were reading "what did the author mean by this?" It was mostly in harmless fun (amd to pad out those 5 page essays) but there are these weirdos who go around with Sociology, gender studies and other usless degrees who see everything through the garbage lens of intersectionality that they picked up in college, that teaches them that everything is racist, everything is gay etc.

[@joywagner979]

Based author, based friend, L professor. We love to hear stories like this!

[@davidchandler2087]

@@joywagner979 It's a common phenomenon with Historical texts, poetry, and religious scripture. People sometimes, just like to insert their own rhetoric where it doesn't belong, namely woke politics.

[@mpix2000]

It once happened to me personally. I wrote a screenplay, my professor started interpreting and throwing meaning and intentions into the text, that I didn't think of while writing. I told him that and he answered by asking what did you mean, I started explaining and he continued asking why and why and why. At some point you realize your text is bound to your world view and to your time and zeitgeist. That's what literature professors and other interpretors (e.g. directors and dramatists) do. Your professor is giving his interpretation and it can be opposite to the authors one and to yours, it doesn't make any of them untrue. It's just about what is most suitable, for the time it's been created in and the context of the author and the medium.

[@Cecilia-ky3uw]

@@mpix2000 exactly. I read Things Fall Apart and read it as the Enlightenment.

[@robsright4256]

I like how the Muppets is what sets her off down the queer rant. 10:34

[@LunarLocust]

Well they do have fists up their backsides

[@I.no.ah.guy57]

But also the fact that the producer said "....anything else?" 👀 , after talking about the Count and how he's similar to the older depictions of vampires. They MEANT to have her talk ALLLLL about gender and sexuality. Otherwise, she wouldnt have said she studies gender and have kept inserting it into EVERY. SINGLE. THING 🙄

[@heathergreenakers]

It’s like when Ramsey gives Theon the blade in Game of Thrones, and has Theon shave him. He’s literally giving Theon control over his life. In this case, to prove that Theon is well trained, but the threat is still there.

[@GreenDinoRanger]

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.

[@pickupmygroceriespeasant]

Johnlock.

[@NameIsDoc]

Main example pennywise the clown. It seems to me they are more projecting themselves onto characters rather than looking for representation. Infact majority of people do not seek representation in media. They look for relatable traits that is why people can connect to similar plights of characters that look nothing like them. Seeking a one to one copy of oneself is a sign of narcissistic behavior disorders

[@VonRibbitt]

Or any fictional ftiendship between to men is labeled as gay by this people. Like jesus fuck can two friends be friend without this people shouting that they want to fuck eachother.

[@alarrim29574]

@@NameIsDocwhy do they always seem to pick the worst characters, evil characters, or monsters/creatures to project themselves and their gayness onto😂like are you really gonna want to compare yourself to an evil, abusive, seductive, a lot of times forceful creatures/people who prey on people often girls and younger people to eat and in a lot of newer stories also sex stuff. Like that be like if I related to and compared and projected myself onto some rapist abusive wife beater in some movie😂

[@lainiwakura1776]

Funny, because before the 2010s, queer was only ever considered a slur by almost everyone.

[@1969ES175]

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.

[@Halo_Legend]

I don't need to imagine. I lived through it. And let me tell you: it's not only america that has fallen.

[@1969ES175]

@@Halo_Legend speak up. Expose the prof’s ideological biases and interests and challenge them with yours. At the very least, they must acknowledge that there is more than one way to look at things.

[@Halo_Legend]

​@@1969ES175Did that. Unfortunately, most other students were braindead even before I coming to this class, so I guess that's on me for having an interest in a contested field. It's now behind me though.

[@Halo_Legend]

​@@1969ES175And nah, they don't have to acknowledge anything. They'll just cite sources that aren't actual sources and you'd be too noninterested in reading some crap publication to refute their claims.

[@mndiec]

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

[@AmosHall-fu3to]

They also explored a lot of homoeroticism and gat stuff though, ESPECIALLY the later novels like armand (gayest book ever and I read it in prison😅)

[@oz_jones]

Oh shit. Never knew the pain she carries. A parent should never bury their child :(

[@kdks7843]

@@AmosHall-fu3to The Jewish critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki often said that women can't write novels. He was right.

[@sagelg]

What she said about Twilight vampires being monsters that “everyone wants to be or be with” shows me that she neither read the books nor saw the movies & even if she did she didn’t pay attention. Edward flat out says everything about a vampire is designed to make them intriguing. Basically think of how an anglerfish’s lure works. Belle is one of the only characters shown that actively wants to be a vampire & she mainly wants to do it to be with Edward. Almost every character that is a vampire was turned either against their will or as a way to “save them.” It has nothing to do with them being “the pinnacle of 21st century, capitalist, aspirations.”

[@gasmaskz]

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.

[@Obamas_Nipple]

same thing happened with a polar bear documentary i watched yesterday, five minutes of polar bears, an hour of climate change hysteria

[@eeurr1306]

@@Obamas_Nipple Unlike interpreting homoerotism into every piece of literature in existance, climate change is actually important. If youve been around for some time you shouldve noticed the snow level sinking. And the increased amount of natural disasters compared to times before industrialisation.

[@oblitusunum6979]

​@eeurr1306 take the time to research the actual facts surrounding the topic. Man made climate change is bs and has been disproven time and time again.

[@klontjespap]

​​​@@eeurr1306"it's ok when we do it, because our cause is righteous" - hypocritical preachy bullshitter

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@eeurr1306 But there is no increase in natural disasters? We catalog these things far more than they did before industrialization. It was also way hotter when the dinosaurs were around, but no one complains about that.

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

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

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Chy-nah

[@amentco8445]

Because people that hate us have a lot of the high up positions and capital.

[@LocrianDorian]

It's okay for them to have a job, just nowhere near academia or anything important.

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 english

[@Lvisredalin]

@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 i don't think so. even chinese despise these people

[@_aullik]

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.

[@sctumminello]

Yeah, i caught that, too. Really undercuts her arguments

[@Th3LadyD]

Can you point out the specific time(s) when this is evident?

[@PeregrinTintenfish]

That isn't exactly what she does. She indirectly connects the vampires being vulnerable to the sun to older myths. Although, because she is focusing on film, her sources are limited to very modern depictions of vampires. Her comments though seem to indicate that she is talking about a long time ago. Oh wait, when talking about the Count.

[@mendelovitch]

Which timepoints?

[@Anon0-r5l]

​@@PeregrinTintenfish She could've been much more clear on what she meant.

[@cbradfordgorby3237]

I am so glad I watched this, I grew up with Bert and Ernie and never knew they were gay, I had always assumed they were best friends. I also think that transition from discussing vampires to gay muppets would have been smoother if the sound of squealing brakes had been added, just my opinion.

[@timothywilliams2252]

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

[@e.c.5994]

Ahh, the Aswang! My brother lived in the Philippines for 2 years on a church mission, and has several stories about people believed by villagers to be Aswang. He came home with all kinds of stories about the superstitions they had there, too, including that pointing with your finger at an Aswang could get you cursed - hence why most people in Iloilo point using their lips, a habit he picked up.

[@timothywilliams2252]

@@e.c.5994 You should check out the cheesy horror flick, Shake, Rattle, & Roll... It's all about the Aswang. Classic Filipino horror!

[@EbonyPope]

I agree mostly with Metatron but when looking at MODERN represantation of vampirism you have to admit that it's pretty gay. Everyone noticed that it's a common thing that people mention. The male vampires usually seem quite feminine and the bite in Interview with a vampire looked more like a kiss. Most times you are right the author usually knows what he intended. But things like the subconscious exist so yes some things can be absolutely part of a movie WITHOUT the author really consciously knowing about it. Some things can be a reflection of what the author's mind was trying to process.

[@timothywilliams2252]

@@EbonyPope I was in the navy back in the early 90's when I read the book because there wasn't much to do underway back then to entertain oneself on a ship. I got the vibe about Rice's vampires that they had transcended human sexuality into an emotional attachment that had nothing to do with the biological function of sex. But, I'm not Anne Rice, so I really can't speak to her intentions. But, yes, I think you're right that in modern pop-culture, vampires have become more "gender-fluid" in entertainment

[@EbonyPope]

@@timothywilliams2252 Well even in older movies. They come across as very effeminate.

[@LaineyBug2020]

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.

[@realtalunkarku]

As smug as Ubisoft 6 Months ago

[@rosieconvoy4671]

The body language is very telling.

[@noxplay4906]

This lady is not even an anomaly this is normal in our society lol

[@michaelcaffery5038]

Yes it's obvious within seconds how smug and superior she feels. To quote a song, "but that's the spirit of the age".

[@joywagner979]

I've commented elsewhere in this thread that people who lead with their credentials rather than their knowledge itself are immediately suspect.

[@Maybeabandaid9]

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

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

Imagine if you watched the Twilight movies while staying at a Holiday Inn Express, you would be a double doctor.

[@airborneranger-ret]

lol

[@OneMoreDesu]

If you do a doctorate it makes you a doctor. In the social sciences, it means you fell into the pyramid scheme of university arts. Their only worth is that they can teach others what they have learned rather than employing their education for any production of goods or services.

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@OneMoreDesu those who can do, do. Those who can't, teach.

[@johnmartin8538]

Yes. A doctor of sucking actually.

[@Betcaligarcia]

I went to school with people like this ! They aren’t well

[@xManzi]

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.

[@smievil]

he's probably sucking their wallets dry in the process

[@eduardocatlover4335]

😂Or he may suffer from OCD, thus he needs to know and control everything!

[@gehlesen559]

The Ottomanns didn't get his point so he shoved it up their....

[@gehlesen559]

The Ottomanns didn't get his point so he shoved it up their....

[@virjohnity]

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"

[@allcaps7815]

yes it's the curse of immortality if you will. to be immortal is to never know death yourself but instead the constant grief due too the deaths of so many loved ones. to bind your soul to the mortal plane forever while everyone else leaves you behind. yet if you where to do to them what has be done to you, would they not also view it as a torcher that you do it just so you may have company in your eternal life.

[@virjohnity]

@@allcaps7815 A really good movie... well terrible its good lol movie is called near dark and it shows how vampires would really be. constantly alone wanting death but to afraid to do it.

[@GholaTleilaxu]

Most vampires probably stepped out into the sun. But not the ones portrayed here. :)

[@sassas1487]

I was gonna make a joke, but i won't

[@hideousruin]

Yeah, but I think it's undeniable that at Interview with the Vampire is absolutely crammed with homoeroticism.

[@lucid.420]

The montage at the start is hilarious 😂

[@metatronyt]

I thought so too 😂

[@scrappydoo7887]

It honestly made me throw up a little. To think that these "doctors" can spread this perverse bs makes me want to puke especially when they try to connect it to anything vaguely intelligent

[@mikeguilmette776]

I filled my Bingo card real quick.

[@ragingsmurfling7205]

I felt like I was getting repeatedly spiritually punched in the face. That monologue felt like it was satire, that's how good it was.

[@smillabutryn7517]

​@@scrappydoo7887 the level of education in USA is so low...

[@Unncle_Ruckus]

"Vampire expert" is like being a "Unicorn expert." They're IMAGINARY. There's nothing about them to "know."

[@Paelmoon]

So, like god and religions then.

[@MCharlesPainting]

@@Paelmoon Well, wouldn't this also apply to science, politics, and much else? UN is not real. Gender is not real. Socialism is not real. Storytelling is not real. I strongly disagree that you cannot be an expert on mythology, history, and so forth, and also the idea that religions are not real or that you cannot be an expert on religions as they exist or otherwise. (Unclear if you're joking or not, but the point still stands, regardless.)

[@centurion7398]

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

[@oneill6291]

Exactly! You hit the nail right on the head!

[@SimonJM]

Just said the exact same thing!

[@noxplay4906]

There's something about hammers and sickles they also like, to stay on topic

[@Halo_Legend]

Learn punctuation. This is embarrassing.

[@Damian-the-hackerman]

If you only think of nails, you see nails everywhere

[@whitefang9758]

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

[@TheodoreMinick]

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.

[@daishikaze3986]

Which I believe was the result of TSR going to court again the creators of Tunnels & Trolls, and claiming that T&T couldn't use terms like Hobbit because they owned them. an I think it was T&T who brought the Tolkien Estate in on it and They slapped TSR down hard

[@daishikaze3986]

Flying Buffalo! That's who created Tunnels and Trolls, I couldn't remember right away

[@viddyd3342]

0:49 Legendary supercut. Top marks, mate.

[@gedion4000]

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

[@ulfberht4431]

I also miss the times when vampires were seen as the embodiment of fear and evil. Now they are seen as the embodiment of perverted sexual desires.

[@Wulfyr]

There was a seductive element to movie vampires from Bela Lugosi and certainly from Christopher Lee but that seductiveness was purely about power and the sating of Dracula's primary desire of human blood. Sexuality and lust was just a weapon he used to get what he wanted. I very much got the impression that although he understood sexuality very deeply he was personally unaffected by it.

[@ulfberht4431]

@@Wulfyr Yes I do get that there are some seductiveness to Dracula, but seduction and allure has more implications than just sexual appeal. Seduction can also be interpreted by his mannerism, mysteriousness, his lifestyle, the gothic castle he lives in etc., My problem is modern audiences love to hyper sexualise vampires to the point where they are no longer monsters with a devilish and deceitful nature, they are now portrayed as lusty pornstars with a taste for human blood. They are now just sexy serial killers.

[@chibibeetle]

@@ulfberht4431 they always were

[@roozbeh6999]

@@ulfberht4431 > Now they are seen as the embodiment of perverted sexual desires. so ...Evil ?

[@mikeguilmette776]

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!"

[@leegaul2161]

She failed to understand art critique 101. When a person interprets something in a work it's that perspective is not coming from the work but from their own subconscious. As anyone knows. We can only experience the world through OUR sense and draw upon OUR past memories. It's why language was created in order to convey each other's thoughts and sentiments to each other. So a question that can be asked isn't if these works she is analyzing contain sexual or racist metaphors, rather why does SHE see sex and racism in everything she experiences. As you've pointed out. The author's intention in your example is simply to describe the curtains as they are in the most mundane fashion. They are blue. Nothing more, nothing less. The art student then goes on to ignore that intention and add their own metaphor which actually harms the context of the work trying to be conveyed. We've even reached a point where authors/artists are no longer being respected and types like this woman are speaking for them. I've seen thousands of progs openly state that "Authors and their work have little to do with each other, and it's the fans right to take ownership of the work and change it." Justifying hostile takeovers of other people's cultures is all that says, and ignoring the fact that an author's work is tied almost entirely to them because it came from THEIR MIND, as long as plagiarism didn't occur, of course.

[@mikeguilmette776]

@@leegaul2161 I have run into all that you mention. I dabbled in writing science fiction a decade ago, and in my novel, I made mention that a terraformed Venus "smelled funny." I reasoned that since the present-day Venusian atmosphere contains sulfuric acid, remaining sulfur compounds would linger in a future world. However, I was accused of insulting women with that line. What's more, when I was still on facebook, I posted the blue-curtain meme on my profile, and then had literature teachers responding exactly the way you describe - it was their _right_ and even _duty_ to interpret the work based on current cultural sensibilities.

[@johnduquette7023]

Is "blue" a running motif in the story? If it can be tied to a pattern, it's probably deliberate. If there is no discernable pattern, then the "blue curtains" are most probably purely descriptive.

[@mikeguilmette776]

@@johnduquette7023 In the meme, no specific book is mentioned. The point of the meme is to criticize lit teachers who assign meaning where none exists.

[@johnduquette7023]

@@mikeguilmette776 I understand the meme perfectly, it's just a really stupid meme. Here, I'll do the same thing: >Book: "The curtains were blue." >Reader: "I guess the curtains are just blue." >Author: "Yeah, I was really depressed when I wrote this book, that's why there's so much blue all the time."

[@Cherry_Peach_Pie]

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!

[@JustwatchingYouTube42]

On hairy palms:( around 23:00) I seem to recall reading somewhere that some parents would tell young boys that masturbation causes hairy palms to dissuade them from that "grossly perverse" act; this is perhaps what the professor is alluding to regarding Dracula's hairy palms.

[@whitehawk7980]

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.

[@desertweasel6965]

😂 that's exactly what she was saying and that is absolutely ridiculous 😂

[@kyriss12]

I’m pretty sure that old wives tale is significantly new than the fables about vampires having hairy palms. Also I always figured wanking to much gives you hairy palms was more of a joke than a credible superstition

[@Loremaster28]

@@kyriss12 Doing some reading apparently the hairy hands thing dates back to at least the dark ages so it 100% could be an inspiration for Bram

[@kyriss12]

@@Loremaster28 Yeah vampire lore from that era was entirely different than what we currently associate with vampires. Closer to the modern concept of a revenant.

[@Loremaster28]

@@kyriss12 Oh not part of vampires (at least not connections I saw) but it being due to self pleasure

[@nuckelaveez5029]

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)

[@miless544]

Murnau approached Stoker's widow for the rights to Dracula but was refused.

[@Angela-co6oj]

@@miless544 That is my understanding as well.

[@AnakinTheWeird]

It didn't avoid the lawsuit. The judge actually ordered all copies of it to be destroyed (obvs they failed, thankfully).

[@cp1cupcake]

I just found it ironic because she later says that Nosferatu is one of the best Dracula films.

[@l0sts0ul89]

​@@AnakinTheWeirdDamn laws were serious AF back then

[@namenloss730]

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

[@lainiwakura1776]

He is not Dracula, he is just the Count.

[@marinribaric9749]

The whole character is a pun, not an allusion to any folklore

[@namenloss730]

@@marinribaric9749 she says it is a mention of folklore, not me. but her claim of folklore also contradicts one of her other claims

[@Terran.Marine.2]

The count is funny. That's all.

[@baconsarny-geddon8298]

"Progressivsim" is ALL a self-contradictory mess. -Racial discrimination is the worst evil ever, and totally unacceptable... But also, you MUST discriminate based on race, or else you're a hateful bigot; Some races have different standards for "cultural appropriation" to others. We MUST have race-specific scholarships, housing, etc. Some races can say some slurs, others can't. It only matters when cops shoot a black person, etc. The "anti-racist" left define you by race, more than any other group. -"Gender is just a social construct"... But also, trans people are "born this way/born in the wrong body", with "a womans brain in a male body" from birth, before society had any influence on them. Also, when did we start treating "mere social constructs" with body-altering medicine? Didn't medicine used to require ACTUAL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, instead of "mere social constructs"? There's no expectation of consistency to ANY of this ideology; You just can flip-flop 180 degrees, one sentence to the next, and it's perfectly fine

[@jonathannelson103]

23:00 I'm not sure but i think she's referencing the myth that masturbation will make your palms grow hair. I can tell you for a fact that it's not true.

[@roborob347]

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

[@cezarysudol]

Question is; who pays her? Another one: why?

[@therover4141]

Other agenda driven commie fuck sticks. Simple as that. ​@@cezarysudol

[@noxplay4906]

Theater kid operated government. The ideology they represent is mainstream in government and academia, and these people are propped up. They have no actual skill or talent, they are just loyal to the system

[@alicianieto2822]

Man, most profesdors are not paid 6 figures

[@noxplay4906]

Theater kid operated government and academia

[@stratvar]

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

[@AcanthaDante]

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)

[@mr.spider6859]

Great post, very informative.

[@AcanthaDante]

​@@mr.spider6859Permit me to share an added fact as a thank you: A Spanish version of Dracula was filmed at night on the same set that hosted Bela Lugosi. The English crew would work during the day and the Spanish one at night.

[@EbonyPope]

I agree mostly with Metatron but when looking at MODERN represantation of vampirism you have to admit that it's pretty gay. Everyone noticed that it's a common thing that people mention. The male vampires usually seem quite feminine and the bite in Interview with a vampire looked more like a kiss. Most times you are right the author usually knows what he intended. But things like the subconscious exist so yes some things can be absolutely part of a movie WITHOUT the author really consciously knowing about it. Some things can be a reflection of what the author's mind was trying to process.

[@kll815]

Thank you for this post…I wish more comments had actual knowledge to share on the topic of the video they are attached to. Do you have any suggestions for reading?

[@kathyflorcruz552]

​​​@@EbonyPopeThe classic Hollywood vampires weren't gay at all. They were seductive to women but weren't shown to be able to consumate - just consume. Only recently they got gay and ate anything in their path at the parade.

[@mariapdr3261]

I actually have a pet hypothesis that vampires and werewolves and similar humanoid monsters that are part of ancient folklore and seem to be universal are not the result of ancient humans misunderstanding disease but of people trying to come to terms with the monstrous actions people are capable of. The reason I think that is precisely because the people believed to be the modern inspiration for, at least, Dracula isn’t someone with an illness but a ruthless ruler. And serial killers often draw comparisons to vampires and werewolves and are nicknamed as the vampire or the werewolf of x, leading me to believe that these monsters are a reflection of the worst of humanity and are attempts to come to terms with that.

[@daytonagreg8765]

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.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Same with some Localizers on Japanese Media.

[@garymaidman625]

I remember doing a class on Victorian literature, the professor was a woman and a feminist and made out that all the male authors like Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson and so on were all sexist and racist. The famous Rudyard Kipling poem Gunga Din she said was incredibly racist, when in fact it is anything but. The poem is basically saying that despite your perceived barbarity and lower class, 'you're a better man than I am Gunga Din'.

[@eeurr1306]

She does know seem to know her vampirology and literature very well though, even if she then reads her own fantasies into it.

[@KaeYoss]

Which is why PhDs, especially from NA colleges, have a very low reputation these days. Many have professed to prefering to hire people without a college degree, since those seem to offer no valuable skills, only indoctrination. STEM is somewhat resistant to this, but even there, the propaganda is sneaking in.

[@notthething9531]

@@garymaidman625 I have absolutely no time for feminists, less credibility than flat earthers frankly.

[@CrypidLore]

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

[@noxplay4906]

These people don't even believe objective truth exists, reality and morality is subjective, and everything is up to individual interpretation, that is their worldview

[@chrisjackson9626]

@@noxplay4906 absolutely, straight out of the postmodern and Frankfurt School playbook.

[@simonspacek3670]

That is why I love approach from Stephen Ressler at Great courses plus and his course "Do-It-Yourself Engineering". He mentioned there that what he likes to do is divide his students into groups, give them the problem and let them figure it out (with his guidance of course). For example, design a bridge, build it and test it. Did you go over the budget? Points down. Did you forgot to calculate the weight correctly? Your bridge will break and the whole team will fall in the mud in front of everyone. He doesn't tell them how to do things, he first wants them to figure it out. They have to understand what is happening. And if your opinion is "this bridge is good enough", gravity and a mud pool will judge you.

[@stiffrichard2816]

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.

[@scarysara9364]

This girl probably thinks that the ladies from 'The Golden Girls' are lesbians because they all live together.

[@user-dd5eh5lu3o]

@@scarysara9364 I'm sure that dang cheesecake was some kind of metaphor....

[@fein-z9b]

the only writer at the time said they were gay, modeled after his gay relationship with his husband. but then years later the CEOs and PR panicked about it as they were turning into a gay symbol to help legalize gay marriage and went on to say they're actually not gay despite the writer saying so

[@iamnotyu5548]

always thought they were brothers. but archie and jughead were lovers

[@silverhawkscape2677]

@@fein-z9b Legalization was a Mistake. Thankfully other countries are watching the Western Pride Parades and realizing that legalization is bad.

[@KarosuMaker]

Funny how a stuff that she finds erotic actually comes from an evil being preying on it's victim. I think it says a lot about how she perceives relationships.

[@grantpflum6844]

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

[@jmw1500]

Or be of certain races or disabilities. Conferences in math have been selected for women, or blacks only in the USA. Full funding. Grades fluffed. Dissertation accepted automatically if your advisor says so. We should be ignoring USA higher degrees.

[@LalaDepala_00]

​@@jmw1500I am Dutch and not American, but I have been saying this for a long time. It doesn't require much to be considered a veteran, expert or professor in the U.S.

[@cp1cupcake]

I know someone who wanted to get a PHD in education in a fairly right wing Western country. He was given a list of SJW agendas to do a thesis proving.

[@danf7411]

I can promise you that most see any kind of degree or college education as a social status enhancer. After getting into my mind a minor social argument all she could do was list her degrees when she couldn't or wouldn't respond to my statement. I already knew woman just see college education as a status symbol bt that confirmed it. As her father is paying back 6 figures in debt for a PUPPETERING degree.. how can you take people like that seriously 😂

[@Trepur349]

Ehh I'd say getting a PhD still requires hard work or experience, just not necessarily work or experience that creates value

[@Funktastic_Ed]

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.

[@VK-sz4it]

It is quite obvious that vampire's bite is sexual and Metatron is kinda blind here or stuborn. That's how it is. But I agree that she is taking it too far. I mean, it is interesting theory, but not very substantiated.

[@garymaidman625]

​@@VK-sz4itwithin Victorian literature, which Bram Stoker was within, Gothic is simply a sub-genre of Victorian literature, the idea of the vampire could be perceived as being sexual. But to say this relates to vampires if the Gothic period, which is a very different time frame, is incorrect. The Gothic period was the 12th century to the 16th century. That's an essay in it's own right and something I'm well versed on in my studies. My point being that the vampires folklore from 500-800 years ago was not sexual in any way, shape or form.

[@VK-sz4it]

@@garymaidman625 That is good point. If Metatron had said exactly that I'd be content.

[@Graye007]

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.

[@exantiuse497]

Vampires in folklore DO have an obsession for counting things, usually grain or seed spilled in the ground. Whether Stiles knew these stories and intentionally made reference to them via the charcter or if it's just a coincidence, that I don't know, but the part about vamoires counting things is accurate

[@AndreGrandier]

As always, an excellent response video from Metatron. I have only two things to say: 1. The comparison between the shaving scene with a mafia threat was truly inspired, considering that Coppola also directed the Godfather trilogy. 2. About the hairy hands: it was often told the myth that boys who masturbated, a deviant behaviour for catholics, would grow hair on their palms, I guess she may be referencing that.

[@D-Cameron]

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.

[@fibanocci314]

Interesting! Thanks for the background!

[@KingMordred]

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

[@Anaris10]

Glad you said it, I'm not the only one who knows that part.

[@ivantumanov1015]

"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.

[@nineteenfortyeight]

Yeah it was a common joke made when I was a kid. I don't think the idea is old enough to explain the hairy palms in novel though

[@Kilospan5941]

Never heard of it. If that’s really the case she could have explained it. It just came off as weird. I was wondering what is sexual about hairy palms? I thought it was gross kink or something. 😂

[@Jelperman]

@@nineteenfortyeight The novel came out in the 1890s, which was the height of anti-masturbation hysteria.

[@saruflan5441]

​@@nineteenfortyeight Not a common joke, in fact it was taught by priests to pre-teens. And at least more than 250 300 years ago!!

[@scottneil1187]

​@@saruflan5441Still is in some backward places.

[@johnnymiller8766]

Fratello thank you so much for the good content. I’ve been watching your channel for a very long time. I’ve learned a lot.

[@Zeitgeist6]

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.

[@TheMornox]

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.

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@TheMornox it's a cult. Every aspect of their life is controlled, even the way they dress, and the way they speak. It's to signal to other cult members.

[@standingwatchinarizona]

I've figured out that the majority of these people , don't like themselves

[@Zionswasd]

Sometimes all thats keeping me from ending it all is that every day i dont wake up as those things.

[@oz_jones]

They wear an uniform. Most groups do, to be fair, but still.

[@Mant111]

They Live

[@johnathanwoods1223]

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

[@simonspacek3670]

Bert and Ernie are not gay agenda, they are accommodation warning. Two adult brothers still having to live together because they cannot afford their own apartments. They warned us!

[@nathanaelculver5308]

*”How does [hair in the palm] represent sexualized perversity”* Traditionally, acts such as masturbation are considered sexually deviant, showing a lack of proper moral restraint. In apparently the late seventeenth to early 18th centuries, we find early suggestions that immoral actions (not limited to sexual actions) could result in physical signs or marks on the body. The earliest literature I’ve been able to discover on this was the 1712 pamphlet “Onania”, circulated in England, which warned that masturbation led to severe physical and mental ailments. And there was Samuel-Auguste Tissot’s 1760 treatise on “Onanism” that argued masturbation depleted the body of necessary fluids, leading to health problems such as weak vision. I’m not sure when specifically hairy palms entered the picture, except that it seems to have been sometime in the 19th century, but the association between hands and masturbation is pretty obvious.

[@illuminahde]

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...

[@michelguevara151]

just another marxist pseudointellectual pretending to be smart by misusing lots of' big words'.

[@wren180]

Who else got intersectional, diversity, woke BINGO?

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Word salad bs

[@mikebott6940]

I was waiting to hear "transgressive" and I was disappointed.

[@The_Friendly_Fire]

I like to call it; buzzword salad

[@Brad-ic4bp]

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

[@scrappydoo7887]

There are many places that these creatures are given time to speak and have their jibberish published

[@ostsan8598]

NEJM has its own share of mindless drivel in a similar vein.

[@VeraBousiou]

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.

[@kaguth]

Another good video! This may have been pointed out in another comment but when she said Nosferatu is palgerized from the Dracula novel it's not just the fact that it has a vampire in it (Dracula wasn't the first vampire novel anyway) it's that Nosferatu basically retells the story of Dracula scene for scene but changes the names. The filmmakers were actually sued by Stoker's widow after his death and this resulted in Dracula becoming a very popular novel due to the controversy.

[@Kane.JimLahey.]

Thank you for calling these people out. They cannot keep getting away with this!!

[@laurajaneluvsbeauty9596]

She’s just a propagandist.

[@adhamsalem9121]

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

[@Mitra-sd7np]

😂

[@rupturedduck6981]

Her use of the word "We" when referring to members of the "LGBTQA +HAMAS (if you haven't seen any of the news coverage of the pro-palestinian demonstrations HAMAS has been added to the community) organization strongly indicates that she is a member of the community.

[@rondenim9933]

How could she just skip over the Christopher Lee Dracula like that? He was iconic

[@geologist3010]

Christopher Lee only ever had one role: Saruman 😁

[@botondkunos1774]

​@@geologist3010 what about Lord Summerisle?

[@rsr789]

@@geologist3010 Francisco Scaramanga has a golden gun pointed at you for your comment.

[@Marinealver]

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

[@cluckcluckchicken]

Your attitude is the reason academia is garbage now. Maybe if more people challenged these idiots' writings, they wouldn't have taken over every college 🙄

[@Obamas_Nipple]

we need more normal people teaching our kids. My cousin is like this woman and shes on the school board, her kids are left wing activists and theyre not even in high school yet.

[@exantiuse497]

And why is that? Are you afraid that you would have become like her? Or do you think there shouldn't be professors/academic that aren't like her? If you don't like what she's doing, if you want that there were more academic unlike her, you should be cursing your decision to abandon your studies, depriving the world of academia of someone with a different worldview

[@Vibe_Master_007]

​@@exantiuse497 Womp womp

[@pilouuuu]

Thank you for unmasking those charlatans!

[@DarkAryen]

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.

[@TheBestEverEverEver]

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.

[@-_YouMayFind_-]

But what is her studies?

[@TheBestEverEverEver]

@@-_YouMayFind_- modern pseudo mythology

[@gregoryblock9542]

PhD from Amazon

[@tinkeropsi]

At no point did she say that we cant question her.

[@bobblacklodge]

Don't tell her how to better lie! You are right. I see her body language and I know not to trust her. Her eyelids rattle like crazy.

[@drdemise]

Metatron, such a pro. I couldn't hear hear mental gymnastics anymore either. I'll be waiting for your vampire breakdown vid.

[@flanunu-l6o]

We've come full circle back to Freudian psychology.

[@GarbageDeplorableBitterClinger]

Those darn people condemning the "non-normative" desire to drink peoples blood.

[@magicpyroninja]

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

[@CucumberLlamas]

It seemed prompted to me, like vanity fair discussed with her that she was supposed to slip in this type of information and when she didn't for the first 8 min they're like "anything else" which sets off this egging on of LGBTQ stuff

[@magicpyroninja]

@@CucumberLlamas I think it was the other way around. They were like you need to make it look legitimate for a little bit before you break off into the required section

[@CucumberLlamas]

@magicpyroninja yeah possibly, which all in all unless you're reaching yourself the video wasn't that bad but there was definitely moments where it was unnecessary or egged on. My main issue with these vanity fair videos is they don't say that this type of conversation is going to be inserted into it. I'm sure there's plenty of homoerotic and sexual nuance in various forms of vampire literature, but I don't think it's inherently apart of vampirism. They should title the video "homoerotic nature and sexuality in vampire media" if that's what they are going for. I also have an issue with lack of explanations and sourced material. If these things were intended then why not reference where or why, instead of just "oh yeah this is clearly homoerotic in someway" like how though

[@WhyYouMadBoi]

The fucking lines from vampires>The count from sesame Street> Bert and Ernie from sesame Street>Joke about how they are gay>Into the ramble

[@02sparklestars02]

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.

[@NaryanBergstrom]

The artist has the last word on intent for sure, and they can have a position on how they would like their work to be interpreted. But interpretation is ultimately left up to the viewer.

[@silverskull7669]

​@@NaryanBergstrom this is the second comment of yours I find and it seems like you have a problem with reading comprehension. What the comment meant is that sometimes people look too much into things in order to find a deeper meaning when in reality they aren't all that deep. In this case the guide talked about something that wasn't really there, the painting was made just for the sake of representing a beautiful landscape.

[@NaryanBergstrom]

@silverskull7669 "it's the author/creator who has the last word on intent and interpretation." It seems like you have a problem with reading comprehension. The person who has the last word on the interpretation is the one interpreting the piece.

[@KaeYoss]

That's not uncommon. The "art experts" are trained bs peddlers. They are trained to see meaning that doesn't exist. And unless you're a somewhat famous, as well as outspoken, artist, good luck getting people to know there was no hidden meaning with that door being read. They will ignore or silence you since their job as a grifter depends on people remaining oblivious and gullible.

[@NaryanBergstrom]

@silverskull7669 if a piece of art speaks to you on a deep level and you find meaning in it, that's perfectly valid even if the artist didn't intend for it to be taken like that. I wouldn't have had an issue with the original comment if they had just said that the last word on intent is up to the artist. Intent and interpretation are two separate concepts.

[@bensharenli1212]

Anything can be sexual in the mind of a pervert.

[@FireflowerDancer]

I think you mean fetishes. Fetishes aren't necessarily perverted, though. In the strictest psychological sense of the word, maybe. But typically a fetish is just something that you find sexy. Like a certain hair color or hairstyle.

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@FireflowerDancer Nah, that's not what they mean.

[@FireflowerDancer]

@@lainiwakura1776 Then Idk 🤷‍♀️