From the mailbag

Sasha writes:

This post was really helpful.

Are vampires anti-misogynistic, or do they just like the blood?

Thanks.

I wish I'd been clearer in that post, Sasha. I do apologize. Vampires, having been 'othered' for centuries, really understand intersectionality. They 'get it'. They kill, but they do understand oppression. They have a keen read on misogyny, (and racism, homophobia, ageism, ableism, etc.) and they really don't care about menstrual blood. Like it's just not a big deal to them. They like blood, and they like their victims, so they don't care what stage their victims are in their menstrual cycles. They aren't like worried about what you look like either. They care about the person inside you.

It's often been hundreds of years of hunting human prey, so they've had time to think about the differences and similarities in all of us. I really think that it's not that they are anti-misogynistic, they've just lost a lot of their judeo christian hangups. You know? They're not like some 18 year old boy who is experiencing this for the first time. By now, they've learned that it doesn't behove them to be racist. Why would it? Why be like that? They also have had time to think about how racism, sexism, etc. affect all fo us, how it manifests in each of their victims. They've worked through, unpacked, broken down a lot of their shit.